Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java on AMD64
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:52:47
Message-Id: 200709201742.43936.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Java on AMD64 by Mark Knecht
1 On Donnerstag, 20. September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > It has been a long time since I've looked at Java on my AMD64 machine.
3 > I run into links, etc., and they don't work. It was frustrating two
4 > years ago. It just didn't work. On my machine still it doesn't, but
5 > maybe this is because I haven't tried to fix it in a long time, so...
6 >
7 > Here's a link with some Java on the page:
8 >
9 > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html
10 >
11 > I get the typical white box with a jigsaw puzzle piece asking me to
12 > 'Click here to download plugin' and then a message about JRE missing.
13
14 works perfectly fine for me.
15
16 >
17 > I currently use Blackdown but notice this 'virtual' JRE is Sun. That
18 > all seems a bit strange.
19
20 Blackdown sucks. Really. It is bad.
21
22 >
23 >
24 > I thought that before I invested too much time I'd ask if there is
25 > anyone who makes pages like the one above work and what you have
26 > installed.
27 >
28
29 java-config -L
30 The following VMs are available for generation-2:
31 1) Blackdown 32bit JRE 1.4.2.03 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.4.2]
32 2) Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.02 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.6]
33 3) Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 [sun-jdk-1.5]
34 *) Sun JDK 1.6.0.02 [sun-jdk-1.6]
35
36 So I am using the 1.6 jdk from Sun
37
38 browser is Konqueror from KDE 3.5.7
39 No special settings.
40 Java enabled in the settings menu.
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