Re: [opensuse] Is it possible to upgrade from 32 bits to 11.2 x64?
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:54:41 +0100 (CET)
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On Tuesday, 2010-02-09 at 09:34 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote:
On Feb 7 22:38 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):does everything work in 64 bits? Like multimedia (video), flash,
scanner...
If your scanner works with a true free-software driver
(in particular if it does not require a proprietary plugin)
it should also work with the 64-bit packages.
Yes, I use the free drivers only, so it "should" work - I haven't tried yet, it is still plugged to my old computer.
I only write "should" here because - as usual - we (i.e. Suse/Novell)
do not provide warranty if it does not work in your particular case.
For example the particular SANE driver for your particular scanner
might have a bug on 64-bit architecture.
Yep, I understand. But this poses a new question: is the 64 bit arch more buggy than the 32 bit version? Just curious, but it is a factor to consider. And considering that gains are doubtful in 64 bit (it is the same clock speed, you just move more data at the same time)... I might stay on 32 bit.
If your scanner requires a proprietary driver or a proprietary plugin
for a driver, you would have to get this plugin for 64-bit architecture
which is not always possible because the manufacturers like Avasys
do not provide all their proprietary plugins for 64-bit architecture.
Compare
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917
Not the case: I took good care to buy a scanner with a supported, aka free driver in sane project :-)
But your point might be true for other pieces: hardware needing proprietary drivers might not provide them for 64 bits. Actually some of these also need the windows program to use them fully, which means double boot or virtualization. So, the next question is whether a 32 bits windows works well in a 64 bit vmware environment.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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