Re: AMD64 FreeBSD Motherboards & Ports

From: Steven G. Kargl (kargl_at_c-67-168-59-70.client.comcast.net)
Date: 12/13/04

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    In article <41bd1714$0$1121$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
            Daeron <daeron@some.net> writes:
    > To update my workstation,
    > I settled on a 3500+ AMD64 and a moderate video card
    > (ATI Radeon 9600 which is meant to have OpenGL 2.0 hardware support)
    >
    > Motherboards - IMHO beware of nVidia chipset mobo
    >

    (snip)

    You need to read the freebsd-amd64 mailing list archive.

    >
    > Ports - IMHO needs more AMD64 users to work on Graphics & Multimedia ports.
    > However there are a number of ports which state that they are i386 ports
    > only & will not comiple for amd64.
    >

    cd /path/to/port/yada
    make

    If it fails because of ARCH_ONLY_BLAH=i386 in the Makefile,
    remove that line and try again. If it compiles, you're done.
    If it fails start ading patches until it compiles, then submit
    a patch.

    > It would also be handy to have the ability to
    > emulate a Linux system.

    You can run ia32 linux binaries on FreeBSD/amd64. Read the
    mailing list archive. 

    -- 
Steve
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