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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostWell, if you want 32bit, then you need 32bit libraries. There is no way around this. Even with the blob drivers, you will note that the 64bit blob drivers come with 32bit libraries for those 32bit applications.
I could compile the drivers myself or use the experimental multilib overlay but I don't have the energy to mess with that just to get google earth working.
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Originally posted by tholin View PostThe problem is not a lack of 32bit libraries. The precomiled 32bit libraries installed by gentoo are too old. They were last updated in january and it looks like evergreen acceleration came in xf86-video-ati 6.14.0 released at Feb 4.
I could compile the drivers myself or use the experimental multilib overlay but I don't have the energy to mess with that just to get google earth working.
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Heh, great to see someone with the same questions as me. My new notebook has a Nvidia GPU, and multimonitor is... Crap crap crap crap. And noveau is too unstable and lacks powermanagement, so not usable at all.
Most Radeon 5450s I have seen supports 3 outputs, although you would have to buy a displayport to vga adaptor, but they are becoming common enough now :-)
Maybe a simple enough request could be to ask the gentoo maintainer of the x86-emul package to provide an updated build, because of your reasons, which is entirely valid, I think?
I just checked, there are 20110722 versions of the emul packages. unmask and test I guess?
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The GeForce 8400M GS works with the newest proprietary driver which fixes some bugs, and dual-head in TwinView (not tried Xinerama) works fast. Nouveau also works fine within its limits (if you use KDE + Nouveau 3D you may want the latest Git as that fixes an important bug). Even 2nd screen setup and autodetect (which the Linux blob lacks) work fine. My card is built-in in my laptop, but there are desktop cards named 8300, 8400 and 8500 based on the same NV86 chip.
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