Sorry - I just discovered the gentoo-amd64-users list. Probably much better to ask these questions there.
Thanks, Mark On 9/6/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Is Flash supposed to be fully supported on the AMD64 platform? I > don't know where to find out info like this. > > It seems I have Flash installed but on some sites Firefox tells me > that it finds no suitable plugin, such as the top part of this site: > > http://www.digidesign.com/ > > When I go through the guided format to get a plugin it eventually > leads me to Macromedia's site, but I do have netscape-flash installed: > > lightning ~ # emerge -pv netscape-flash > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25 +gtk 0 kB > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > lightning ~ # > > lightning ~ # uname -a > Linux lightning 2.6.13-gentoo #2 Sat Sep 3 16:45:26 PDT 2005 x86_64 > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > lightning ~ # > > As a second question Neil and someone else said the other day that > certain multimedia things didn't work on AMD64. Where could I find out > what is and is not supported? > > Thanks, > Mark > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
