From: Ilya Konstantinov (linux-il_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Fri 13 Jan 2006 - 20:34:49 IST
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> There were no oopses, just total freeze, no response from either
> keyboard or mouse, nothing helped but powercycle. Looked like a
> deadlock to me.
>
There are ways to debug such hangs, but let's leave it at this,
especially since this is no longer a problem for you.
> One exception: Macromedia's flashplayer does not have a 64bit version,
> at least I didn't find one. I fooled the installer to recognize x86_64
> as a valid architecture, and installation succeeded, but it does not
> work. Any suggestions welcome. Please keep discussions of the lessons
> regarding vendor lock-in, closed source, and such off this list. I
> suppose that installing 32-bit versions of the various browsers will
> help, but I am not willing to do it just for the pleasure of having
> flash.
>
It's nothing particular to your configuration, but rather how all x86_64
systems work, whether Linux or Windows. You cannot load 32-bit DLL files
into a 64-bit program, so the 32-bit Flash plugin cannot load into your
64-bit Mozilla. There isn't any significant speed penalty for running a
32-bit Mozilla on your 64-bit system and it's unlikely your Mozilla will
use more than 4GB memory, so you might do what most sane people do and
keep your Mozilla / Firefox as an i386 package. Same goes for MPlayer
needing to be 32-bit to load Win32 DLLs (for codecs which ffmpeg doesn't
yet support, such as WMV3). You might notice that bi-arch x86_64 distros
such as Fedora supply 32-bit builds of such essential packages in
addition to the 64-bit ones.
It goes the other way too: If you run a 32-bit Mozilla, you'd need a
32-bit edition of the Java Runtime Engine to use Java applets. Luckily,
you can have the 32-bit edition and 64-bit editions of Sun's JRE
installed side-by-side.
> One other thing that is not related directly to my system, but a
> tidbit I discovered while shopping. Just something I am curious
> about. The newest LCD monitors (e.g. from Samsung - SyncMaster 960BF
> 19'') come without any controls whatsoever - all the controls are in
> software. Only Windows software is supplied. Question: does anyone
> know how it is supposed to work on non-Windows (and non-Mac) systems?
> The assumption apparently is that the monitor will work (for some
> definition of the word) without the software - otherwise how can one
> install it?
>
Check this out:
http://jaffar.cs.msu.su/oleg/ddcci/
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