[mythtv-users] MythTV Compile Options

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/6/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Monday 06 February 2006 22:38, Brian Wood wrote:
> >> On Feb 6, 2006, at 7:12 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> >>> On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>>> Brian Wood wrote:
> >>>
> >>> <Snipped for Brevity>
> >>>
> >>>> Just turn off OpenGL vsync with a setting in 0.18-fixes or
> >>>> higher and
> >>>> turn on XvMC.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mike
> >>>
> >>> OK, Gentoo's "Ebuild" system can be your friend or your enemy :-) I
> >>> need to find the correlation between Gentoo's "USE" flags and the
> >>> config options, but you have certainly pointed me in the correct
> >>> direction. Thanks as always.
> >>
> >> In case this might help others:
> >>
> >> It turns out that the amd64 architecture running in 64-bit mode
> >> supports sse and sse2 but *not* mmx. It does support mmx if running
> >> in 32-bit mode.
> >
> > Wrong.
> >
>
> Please elaborate. I admit the info I got was from 2004, but it was
> from AMD.
>
> What is the situation with processor-specific compilation options?
>
> I'm simply trying to find out if it's worth re-compiling with mmx
> support on a 64-bit amd64 system. It seemed wrong to me that Gentoo
> would not permit this, which is why I asked the question in the first
> place.
>
> I'd greatly appreciate any info.

I've got two systems running Debian64 both using mmx w/ no problems.

--
Steve