Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:22:33 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...) Message-ID: <4352C499.8050600@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510161404r11b2e680t9e6151d73985260f@mail.gmail.com> References: <200510170014.36661.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <20051016141616.GA10606@yoafrica.com> <20051016092201.A48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <43529782.4010201@mkproductions.org> <20051016124158.D48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <4352ADE2.5090502@mkproductions.org> <20051016134218.T48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <cb5206420510161404r11b2e680t9e6151d73985260f@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote: > >>At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: >> >> >>>Bill Schoolcraft wrote: >>> >>>>At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Bill Schoolcraft wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Grrrrr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on >>>>>>AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ >>>>> >>>>>I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the >>>>>errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. >>>>> >>>>>-Mark >>>>> >>>> >>>>Thanks Mark, >>>> >>>>Here is all that happened: >>>> >>>>##################################### >>>> >>>>[root@liam /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]-> make install >>>> >>>>===> xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. >>>> >>>>##################################### >>>> >>> >>>Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it >>>won't work, sorry :( >> >>Do you see all/any of this getting resolved with the release of 6.0 ? >> >>This of course is not the first port that has this limitation. >>I was really stoked to get my first amd64 with 1-gig of ram, I >>had no idea that these bumps would occur. I run 5.4 on i386 and >>it was that experience that led me to get the 64bit box. >> >>I have it triple booted with "FreeBSD-5.4/WinXP-Pro/SuSE-9.3" >>but keep it booted into BSD to keep the faith! >> >>-- >>Bill Schoolcraft >>PO Box 210076 >>San Francisco, CA 94121 >>http://billschoolcraft.com >> ~ >>"You do best what you like most." >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > > It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports > themselves should get to work under amd64. > > 2006 will probably become the year of widespread > adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd > better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All > server software that was popular enough was > ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly. > > The situation is not much better with Linux, and > even worse with Windows. I run the amd64 version of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on my main workstation and there is really only one thing that I would like to run that I can't. As much as I dislike flash, lots of websites I visit (including one of my own) are in flash so I do wish I could view them. Actually, I guess one more thing would be OpenOffice since the current version of AbiWord in ports has some known bad crashing issues with the amd64 version of FreeBSD. -Mark
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