ATi & Intel graphics

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Wed Aug 13 18:34:45 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote:
> >> At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want
> >> three things.
> >>
> >> 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of performance boost as well -
> >> it's mostly a multimedia machine
> >> decent/good 3D acceleration (better than a GeForce 7300GS - a few
> >> games in WINE in 1920x1080 - yes, believe it or not, the 7300GS
> >> doesn't do /bad/ on many of the games, but it certainly could be
> >> better).
> >> FreeBSD.
> >
> > You may want to rethink this. The emulators/wine port is i386-only:
> >
> > %grep -i arch /usr/ports/emulators/wine/Makefile
> > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386
>
> I was under the impression you could build it with -m32 set in CFLAGS
> and CXXFLAGS and it worked fine.

You may already know more than I do then; I haven't tried that and my main 
desktop is currently running i386.


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