Re: How big will the 32-bit chroot end up being? What goes in these days?

[Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>]

Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote:
>>Not quite that bad.  There is no need for the xserver for example, 
>>as the 32-bit processes have no problem talking to the 64-bit server. 
> 
>  
> "No problem" is an overstatement. Normal things work well, but 3D 
> acceleration doesn't work if a 32-bit prgram is connected to a 64-bit 
> X-server. This means for instance that I can't play gl-117 because the 
> 64-bit version segfaults and the 32-bit version has no 3D acceleration... 

That's not necessarily true. I don't know what kind of video setup you
have, but with an nvidia card and the nvidia-glx-ia32 package I am able
to use 32-bit programs with 3-D acceleration just fine -- either in a
chroot or with ia32-libs.

-Corey