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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:35:12 -0400
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        Jim <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATi & Intel graphics
Message-ID:  <200808131435.12627.lists@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20808131120t7a1245d8t4b01506c0f0818ba@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote:
> >> At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want
> >> three things.
> >>
> >> 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of performance boost as well -
> >> it's mostly a multimedia machine
> >> decent/good 3D acceleration (better than a GeForce 7300GS - a few
> >> games in WINE in 1920x1080 - yes, believe it or not, the 7300GS
> >> doesn't do /bad/ on many of the games, but it certainly could be
> >> better).
> >> FreeBSD.
> >
> > You may want to rethink this. The emulators/wine port is i386-only:
> >
> > %grep -i arch /usr/ports/emulators/wine/Makefile
> > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386
>
> I was under the impression you could build it with -m32 set in CFLAGS
> and CXXFLAGS and it worked fine.

You may already know more than I do then; I haven't tried that and my main 
desktop is currently running i386.



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