Experience with Dell Latitude D620?
Doug Ambrisko
ambrisko at ambrisko.com
Fri Oct 27 23:56:29 UTC 2006
Doug Barton writes:
| Doug Ambrisko wrote:
| > 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.
|
| Eeek, I didn't know that linux stuff wouldn't work, thanks. The thing
| I use it for most often is acroread, what do people use to view pdfs
| in 64-bit land? I just tried epdfview, and it was about 50% successful.
Yes, 32bit Linux works on amd64 kernel. You can probably do it via
the module but I usually have the COMPAT_LINUX32 option in my kernel.
Yes, netscape, acroread, flash works. There has been a lot of
work to make FreeBSD 32bit work on amd64 as well ... good enough
to host a build world, ports build etc.
| As for your other stuff, I was planning to give qemu a try to run both
| windows, and other versions of FreeBSD in a 64-bit 7-current host OS.
| I also like your idea of doing the chroot environment, that might be a
| lighter weight solution for day to day stuff. Are you going to write
| up what you've done?
When I get it into a form to use. I might hit up ru for some ideas
on how. Sort-of like:
make TARGET=i386 DESTDIR=/compat/i386 enter
from /usr/src. There is some hackery needed so that things
like mount etc. and libraries work right. Since we have it working
here at work I understand most of the issues so ports builds work
since some stuff can get messed up.
If you are willing to help document what I give you to test that
would help a lot.
Doug A.
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