AMD 64 bit support in ubuntu

Sarunas Burdulis sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu
Thu Dec 13 13:00:01 UTC 2007


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Rutger van Haasteren wrote:
>     There are, (to my limited knowlege) no problems with Ubuntu packages,
>     but I would advise you install the 32-bit version for a desktop  for
>     Multi-Media use..  The are problems with binary codec packages (such as
>     used with Mplayer) and I'm not all certain about the status of 64-bit
>     flash plugins.
> 
>  
> There are no problems anymore with multimedia codecs. MPlayer does
> everything just fine. Even all wmv files. I use it myself. The only
> problem, indeed, is flash and other (Adobe!!!) web-stuff. YouTube works
> fine btw.
> 
32-bit Flash and Adobe Reader 7 plugins seem to work fine with 64-bit
Firefox if installed with ndiswrapper. Reader 8 complains about some
HTML rendering libraries, which I wasn't able to configure.

Šarūnas

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