[PD] need advice: i386 or amd64 for a new Debian installation?

Lorenzo Sutton lsutton at libero.it
Mon Sep 26 10:56:20 CEST 2011


Nicola,

See what other say in general about amd64 vs i386.

As for pd-extended I still have a working .deb for amd64 compiled from 
those instructions which seems to work fine (although yes, the 
compilation still seems to be broken). I'd be happy to share it with you 
if you like.

Lorenzo.

On 25/09/2011 09:59, Nicola Pandini wrote:
> Thank you for the infos.
> I tried to compile pd-extended for amd64 a couple of weeks ago, but it
> seems to be broken (reported by Lorenzo Sutton), so I'm trying to find a
> precompiled .deb for wheezy.
> I found that only 0.43 has a .deb for wheezy (currently without jack
> support).
> I tried also to install the 0.42.5 .deb for squeeze in wheezy, but I've
> got an issue of fonts.
> Does anyone know if there is a 0.42.5 .deb for wheezy?
>
>
> Il 25/09/2011 04:02, Ricardo Lameiro ha scritto:
>> If you want to use more than 3Gb of ram, you can use a PAE kernel.
>> This i386
>> kernel with a patch for extension of the adressable memory.
>> No dia 24 de Set de 2011 20:42, "Hans-Christoph Steiner"<hans at at.or.at>
>> escreveu:
>>> If you need to access more than 3GB of RAM in Pd, then use 64-bit. If
>>> you are worried about bugs in 64-bit, use 32-bit. But from what I
>>> hear, Pd-extended on Debian/64-bit is good, but I haven't used it.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On Sep 24, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Nicola Pandini wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I'm going to install Debian Wheezy on my laptop.
>>>> Which version should I install? i386 or amd64?
>>>> I'm asking this because I know of issues with pd-extended on 64bit
>>>> systems.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Nicola
>>>>
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