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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Macromedia Flash on AMD64
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:01:46
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b05090610525e300d85@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Macromedia Flash on AMD64 by Mark Knecht
1 Sorry - I just discovered the gentoo-amd64-users list. Probably much
2 better to ask these questions there.
3
4 Thanks,
5 Mark
6
7 On 9/6/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > Hi,
9 > Is Flash supposed to be fully supported on the AMD64 platform? I
10 > don't know where to find out info like this.
11 >
12 > It seems I have Flash installed but on some sites Firefox tells me
13 > that it finds no suitable plugin, such as the top part of this site:
14 >
15 > http://www.digidesign.com/
16 >
17 > When I go through the guided format to get a plugin it eventually
18 > leads me to Macromedia's site, but I do have netscape-flash installed:
19 >
20 > lightning ~ # emerge -pv netscape-flash
21 >
22 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
23 >
24 > Calculating dependencies ...done!
25 > [ebuild R ] net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25 +gtk 0 kB
26 >
27 > Total size of downloads: 0 kB
28 > lightning ~ #
29 >
30 > lightning ~ # uname -a
31 > Linux lightning 2.6.13-gentoo #2 Sat Sep 3 16:45:26 PDT 2005 x86_64
32 > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
33 > lightning ~ #
34 >
35 > As a second question Neil and someone else said the other day that
36 > certain multimedia things didn't work on AMD64. Where could I find out
37 > what is and is not supported?
38 >
39 > Thanks,
40 > Mark
41 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Macromedia Flash on AMD64 Matan Peled <chaosite@×××××.com>