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rchaneberg wrote:'nother quick question, I've been trying to get flash player to work in Fedora 7 64-bit, and can't seem to get it to work, anyone know anything to do?
rchaneberg wrote:'nother quick question, I've been trying to get flash player to work in Fedora 7 64-bit, and can't seem to get it to work, anyone know anything to do?
just brew it! wrote:rchaneberg wrote:'nother quick question, I've been trying to get flash player to work in Fedora 7 64-bit, and can't seem to get it to work, anyone know anything to do?
64-bit Linux browser plugins for proprietary stuff like flash are still problematic.
I got flash working on my Fedora 64-bit system by installing the 32-bit version of Firefox, and the 32-bit flash plugin. Since x86-64 runs 32-bit apps just fine, you don't lose any functionality by doing this.
Nitrodist wrote:What! I didn't know you could still run 32bit based code on a 64bit system..
just brew it! wrote:Note that this is a feature of x86-64; it is not true of other 64-bit architectures.
king_kilr wrote:Is the nsplugginwrapper related to ndiswrapper(the wifi driver wrapper)?
just brew it! wrote:SecretSquirrel wrote:It's also true of Solaris, SPARC or x86.
x86 is what we were talking about originally, and Solaris is an OS not a CPU architecture...
But yeah, I stand corrected. I guess the capability is more common than I thought.
nightmorph wrote:About the only 64-bit CPU I can think of offhand that can not run 32-bit code is Alpha. It's purely 64-bit. Possibly Wikipedia can list a few others.
nightmorph wrote:Also, it's not true that 32-bit device drivers can't be run by a 64-bit kernel; quite the contrary. Wireless networking drivers in particular come to mind -- think ndiswrapper.
Can I use 32-bit Windows driver in 64-bit mode?
No.
nightmorph wrote:bitvector wrote:[ndiswrapper]
I stand corrected.
bitvector wrote:So, I assume you edited your xorg.conf to use the "nvidia" video driver, but did you actually install the driver files? There are a variety of ways to do so, but the best way is to use Fedora packages and repositories made for Fedora (rather than trying to install manually with nvidia's instructions, which will require manual updating on every kernel upgrade). Here's how...
Livna provides a repository with Fedora packages for the binary Nvidia drivers. To install them, do the following:
* Bring up a shell as root and run the following commands:
* rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm (this will install the repository related info in your yum directory so yum will now be able to use livna packages).
* rpm –import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
* yum install kmod-nvidia (this will install the driver).
That should be all you need to do assuming the current Nvidia drivers support your card properly.
zer0 wrote:Will this work for Fedora 8 32-bit as well? I just installed Fedora Core 8 and I've been having problems getting the driver to run properly. (I'm also new to Linux)
update file something-something-i586-something conflicts with kernel file something-something-i686-something
zer0 wrote:That didn't seem to do it...
I tried that, but I got an error for each file. I forgot to take the copy of the error with me to work today so I don't remember exactly what it said, but it was something along the lines of:Code: Select allupdate file something-something-i586-something conflicts with kernel file something-something-i686-something