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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: switching from i386 to amd64
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:48:40 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:

> Specific requirements _could_ be wine and nVidia's proprietary GPU
> driver, as far as I know." - Polytropon (Btw. thank you Polytropon :)

	I'm using amd64 on an Atom/ION box here, the Nvidia binary drivers
work fine for both openGL and the vdpau stuff. Virtualbox worked fine too,
but this Atom doesn't have hardware virtualisation support so it's a bit
sluggish. I've not tried (or wanted) Wine in years.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>