Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:38:14 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openoffice support and other ports Message-ID: <20060626233814.GC92989@duncan.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <44A0380A.1000902@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <1151350344.40202.10.camel@triton.mcneil.com> <44A0380A.1000902@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:39:54PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > Are they really AMD64 ports or do they still need some ia32-compat-tweaks? > I wonder if JAVA is now fully 64Bit. Fully 64-bit here. Remember that AMD64 is now just about Sun's primary Java platform, so you would expect it to be fairly well tweaked. The only gotchas for happy-happy amd64 desktop is lack of Nvidia graphics card drivers and lack of vm86-mode so that green.ko can use VESA BIOS calls to use DPMI to switch my monitor off. These may come, eventually, but for now I'm happy with un-accellerated VESA graphics (even xorg's nv driver was giving me problems) and learning to reach over and switch the monitor off manually... Cheers, -- Andrew
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