Experience with Dell Latitude D620?

Doug Ambrisko ambrisko at ambrisko.com
Fri Oct 27 22:36:24 UTC 2006


Doug Barton writes:
| Doug Ambrisko wrote:
| > The _2_ version is supposed to be 64-bit.  I waiting to get such
| > a laptop from work with a 19.2x12 screen.  I will be using
| > it in 64bit mode and compiling for both 32bit and 64bit stuff.
| > Since the other 64bit variants work Celeron etc. I would expect
| > the mobile version to just work.
| 
| It does, thanks! My only regret so far is that the nvidia drivers 
| don't have a 64 bit version, but the box and video card are fast 
| enough so that isn't really a problem. I'm pleasantly surprised that 
| so far all of my ports work in 64 bit mode as well.

That was my experience with the nvidia stuff before :-(

FYI, it should be trival to jail/chroot 32bit env. on your 64bit host.

I should merge some of the make/env. bits from -current to -stable.
I'll do it after 6.2 is out.  I'm thinking about make a general
purpose way to create an image and jump into it.  We have it at 
work and as a proof of concept.  I created a 32bit environment on
a 64bit host and did port built and package add in there of Linux
stuff.

Doug A.


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