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On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:51, Ralph Slooten wrote: |
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> Hiya list, |
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> I bought myself a new AMD Athlon64 in December, and initially installed |
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> it as a 64-bit Gentoo. In January this year I decided to reinstall it as |
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> a 32-bit OS due to constant issues with flash plugins, win32 codecs etc. |
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netscape-flash works with mozilla-firefox-bin and any other 32-bit browser, |
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it's also possible to make it work with 64-bit konqueror. You might also be |
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interested in looking at net-www/gnash, still alpha quality but will |
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hopefully become a fully fledged flash player with amd64 support. |
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mplayer-bin will play all codecs that you normally need win32codecs for. Also |
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if you're like many users and WMV3 videos are all you use win32codecs for, |
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you might be interested to know that a VC-1 (WMV3) codec is a google summer |
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of code project, so will hopefully be in a future version of ffmpeg soon. |
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> Seems I made one muck-up ... I used (for the 32-bit OS): |
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> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" |
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> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -msse2 -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer" |
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> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" |
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> instead of (according to |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Opteron.2FAthlon64_.28AMD.29): |
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> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" |
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> CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse2 -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer" |
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> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" |
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-march=athlon64 implies -msse2, all amd64 cpus have sse2 support. |
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Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not use it |
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but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead. |
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> Notice the athlon-xp <=> athlon64... |
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> Does anyone with an good understanding of these flags know the |
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> consequences/results of |
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> a) Keeping the old flags (athlon-xp)? |
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> b) Changing to the new flags without a total reinstall? |
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AFAIK '-march=athlon-xp -msse2' is equivalent to '-march=athlon64' |
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> While I understand that I quite possibly have to reinstall several |
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> packages if I change the flags, which are the ones to pay particular |
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> note to, or is such a change drastic to the OS requiring a total rebuild |
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> of everything? |
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> Please advise. |
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I would not bother with a full system rebuild, everything should be fine. |
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> Greetings, |
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> Ralph |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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