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

[Nicola Pandini]

Thanks Lorenzo, it works!
There's only a font-related problem: the font seems to be the right one, 
but has a strange behaviour with the borders of the objects (the pic 
attached explain better what I'm talking about).

Il 26/09/2011 10:56, Lorenzo Sutton ha scritto:
> 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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