On 12/7/05, Milton Yates <milton.yates@...> wrote:
> Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 11:46 -0500, Nuitari a écrit :
> > > 1) If I build and boot a 32-bit version of Gentoo it is my
> > > understanding that the AMD64 will be completely 32-bit compatible and
> > > that I can run whatever any other IA-32 machine can run. Is this
> > > correct?
> >
> > Yes
> >
> > > 2) If I build a 32-bit install is there anyway to run this 32-bit
> > > environment within the 64-bit environment? I assume not.
> >
> > Yes, using a chroot
>
>  You don't need a the whole chroot thing if you only want flash and java
> working in your firefox.

As my title said, I need flash, java and mplayer.

One problem I see with your suggestion is that I need to play wmv
files from web links and the win32codecs flag for mplayer is masked
out on my box. Until I set this positive in my chroot'ed environment
all I got was audio. With it turned on I get video also.

If this cannot be turned on in the 64-bit world then the 64-bit world
wouldn't work for me.


> In this case:
> * use firefox-bin (a 32bit firefox binary provided by portage)
> * the (usual) 32 bit flash plugin
> * a _32 bit_ libjavaplugin_oji.so : the java plugin file, you could copy
> one from your other gentoo 32 bit system. I don't know if this is just
> luck, but I only have dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02 which is compiled
> in 64 bit and it does work!
>
> mplayerplug-in does not want to work for now as far as I have tested
> (that is, not so much).

Seems to be working for me in both the 32-bit and 64-bit worlds.

The one problem I am having is that in all my environments mplayer is
quitting early. (I.e. - not playing the complete file. Bummer!

>
> Hope that helps.
>  I think building and maintaining a whole 32bit chroot is really
> annoying, and after all you can run most 32bits apps out of a chroot
> with the provided emul packages.

Yeah, I agree, but if I must I must!

Thanks,
Mark

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