Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
Verily I say unto thee, that Neal Becker spake thusly:
I installed RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm on F8 x86_64.
I found in the standalone player, there is no sound (it's set to
alsa).
I also found it complaining about an alsa shared lib (sorry, I seem
to have misplaced the message).
So it looks like this won't work without a 32-bit version of the
right alsa lib? I wonder if I should bother or if this is a losing
battle.
Proprietary software vendors have zero interest in 64-bit, because most
proprietary software is for Windows, and most Windows systems are 32-bit
(the OS, if not the hardware). It's a vicious circle which won't be
broken until Intel's monopoly is broken somehow and/or proprietary
software vendors take a chance and lead the hardware industry with
64-bit software innovation.
There are 64 bit builds of both Realplay and Helix in the nightlies at
least. However for Alsa I do successfully run 32bit realplayer on 64
bit F8 by having the 32bit Alsa libraries installed.
--
imalone
