On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > In order to restore functionality that my old system provided > almost 10 years ago (I checked when I bought it!), I'm currently > trying to get wine working. Sadly, its Makefile states: > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 > > I've done some research and found lots of posts several years > old that suggest that using wine on AMD64 is not possible or > requires binary packages that don't exist, and even if one can > install it, it doesn't run. > > Has this situation improved meanwhile? Does anyone have a > recipe on how to get wine running?
There is someone who makes packages for wine on amd64. See http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/wine/ If these packages don't work, see http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine and http://149.20.54.209/showthread.php?t=13982 > Current system is 8.2-STABLE/amd64. Should I better re-install > everything (Intel Core2 4300 1.80GHz / 1799.81-MHz K8-class CPU > here, and 2 GB RAM, that's why the AMD64 choice) and use i386 > instead? Try if the available packages work first; that is probably significantly less work. Otherwise, with only 2 GB RAM I don't think there is much gained by using amd64. Unless your particular applications are faster on amd64. > And maybe fix Gtk+ triggered GPU trouble that way? :-) Could be. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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