FreeBSD on AMD64 3000+ - amd64 or i386 version of FreeBSD?

[Mark Kane]

Hi, and thanks for the great response!

I'm checking the ports now as you said. So far that list doesn't seem to 
include really anything that I would be using.

The Azureus BitTorrent client I was mentioning requires Java, which is 
what I think failed before. Have you gotten any Java to work on your 
amd64 system?

Another thing I was planning to try was VMWare with Windows 2000, 
because I have a few music production applications that just won't run 
on *nix or in WINE. Do you know if the VMWare port runs on amd64? I also 
saw "qemu" on your site...does that run on amd64 FreeBSD?

Also, do you recommend -RELEASE or -STABLE for the amd64? What do you 
run currently?

Thanks again!

-Mark

Roland Smith wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:11:30PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
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>>1) I have an AMD64 3000+ processor. I've been reading some things around 
>>the Internet about ports and other software not compiling properly with 
>>the amd64 version of FreeBSD. Most of the things I've read about this 
>>have been from 2004 or even late 2003, so I'm wondering how things have 
>>progressed since then. Are there still many ports or software that don't 
>>compile properly? Is there a list somewhere of known ports not to work 
>>on the amd64 version?
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>You could check the ports marked BROKEN for a connection to amd64:
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>cd /usr/ports
>find . -name Makefile |xargs grep 'BROKEN.*amd64'
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>>Here is a short list of main things I will use this PC for:
>>IRC (X-Chat, maybe irssi)
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>X-chat works fine on my amd64 box.
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>>Web Browsing (Mozilla Firefox)
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>Firefox works.
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>>Media playing (XMMS/VLC/mplayer)
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>Mplayer & xmms work, don't know about VLC.
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>>Email (Mozilla Thunderbird)
>>Audio Streaming/Recording (streamTranscoder, streamripper, sc_trans maybe)
>>BitTorrent (Azureus)
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>Haven't tried these.
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>>Audio/Video Encoding (lame, oggenc, various video encoding tools)
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>lame and oggenc work.
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>>Basically I'm wondering opinions on either the i386 or amd64 version of 
>>FreeBSD for my hardware for FreeBSD 5.4. Which works better? For what 
>>reasons? Are there any other caveats?
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>I've never had problems with my MSI NEO FSR mobo with K8T800 chipset
>(MS-6702), from 5.3-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE.
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>>2) Will my hardware work properly with the amd64 version? I see my 
>>motherboard (Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro) is listed as "Functional" on the 
>>FreeBSD amd64 motherboard page 
>>(http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html).
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>Some parts of NForce chipsets don't seem to work very well. See the
>mailing list archives.
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>>My other hardware includes:
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>>Sound Blaster Augidy 2 Platinum
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>Should work with the 'snd_emu10k1' kernel driver.
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>>GeForce FX5600 (MSI)
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>Should work with the standard 'nv' driver from Xorg. No accellerated 3D,
>though.
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>>TDK VeloCD 40x12x48 CD Burner
>>Sony DRU500A DVD Burner
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>ATAPI drives should work fine.
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>>3) I know of a couple applications that don't build on the amd64 such as 
>>linux-firefox and Azureus. Does anyone have any info on when there might 
>>be versions compatible with the amd64, 
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>Basically, when someone is interested enough to fix the breakage.
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>>or if there is any other software 
>>like them that would work with the amd64 version (main concern is flash 
>>on websites)?
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>There is a open source flash plugin. See gplflash.sf.net It's in ports
>as libflash-0.4.13 and flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13.
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>Roland
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