Ubuntu on AMD64

[David McCormick]

Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:18:43PM -0400, Colin Kern wrote:
>   
>> I've been using Ubuntu on my desktop system for about 5 months now,
>> and I love it.  I'm getting a laptop this weekend with an AMD 64-bit
>> processor, and I was wondering how, if at all, Ubuntu changes on a
>> laptop and a 64-bit architecture.  How is the hardware support?  Are
>> the same software packages available through Synaptic/apt-get as with
>> a 32-bit system?  Any comments on this would be helpful.
>>     
>
> After trying out the 64-bit version of Ubuntu for a few weeks, I have
> decided to go back to the 32-bit version.  Too many things just did not
> work and I had to spend a lot of time to get workarounds.  Some of the
> problems were:
>
> 1.  My sound did not work well on the Nvidia-chipset.  On the 32-bit
>     version there is not a problem.
> 2.  The Framebuffer-graphics on the console did not work properly.
> 3.  I had to use a 32-bit Firefox to get flash to work.
> 4.  I could not get my scanner (using a third party program "Iscan") to
>      work.
> 5.  I could not use Skype, Ekiga or Gizmo.  Ekiga because of 1 and the
>     others had to run in 32-bit mode.
>
> So I spend some time in reinstalling my system and there are a lot less
> problems now.
>
> Regards
> Johann
>   
How did you get iscan to work on 32 bit? I installed it alright but keep 
getting libesmod.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no suhc file or 
directory
.

Dave
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