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ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

Arch64 on my laptop

I know this has been asked a million times else probably, but for a while now I've be considering trying Arch64. My laptop has one of the newer mobile sempron single cores that support x86_64. Some others have said that using it on the same laptop I have has improved compiz-fusion and some other programs, but they've been using the ubuntu 64bit. Is it really worth it? or are they just exaggerating? Most of the the posts I've seen on here say there is really no reason to change. Also, does catalyst work with x86_64?

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Arch64 on my laptop

On the 32bit vs 64bit question:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44163
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41490
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41158
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39616
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38248
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37211
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34916

There are many more, I just got tired of cut and pasting...

As for your specific question about catalyst: I don't use ATI, but here is the link to the catalyst package from the x86_64 repo: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64 … pkg.tar.gz

ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

Re: Arch64 on my laptop

My main issue would really be RAM, I guess. I only have one gig of ram in my laptop, and while I want to try 64bit...don't know if the RAM can handle it.