Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 32 binaries questions
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:55:28
Message-Id: 200602151553.44887.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 32 binaries questions by Nuitari
1 On Wednesday 15 February 2006 05:01, Nuitari wrote:
2 > > Alt-Enter doesnt work, and cant find it should, isnt it only for
3 > > winOS? I run rt2 in fullscreen, and it appears --windowed option
4 > > doesnt work, just tried. Next time game will lock ill try X kill or
5 > > Ctrl+Alt+Esc if it isnt the same, but meanwhile i found where to turn
6 > > off that amaroK OSD thingy, it was bothering me anyway :)
7 >
8 > Alt-Enter is what got programmed into the game.
9 >
10 > > Can you explain why linux32 part isnt needed?
11 >
12 > afaik all it does is set the architecture to i686 instead of x86_64
13
14 This is used to fool programs into thinking they are running on a i686
15 based system (which the system technically is). This is usefull when a
16 program actually checks this, or does things dependent on the value.
17
18 Paul
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21 Paul de Vrieze
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