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Re: libpepflashplayer.so



On Sun 08 May 2016 at 21:30:51 (-0300), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2016, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 08 May 2016 at 19:00:29 (-0300), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Sun, 08 May 2016, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > > > Lisi Reisz [2016-05-08 13:25:46+01] wrote:
> > > > > Or perhaps check the model - it is an old Dell, but the crucial
> > > > > question is what chip that model had, so which exact model.
> > > > 
> > > > For 64 bit CPUs "lscpu" command prints:
> > > > 
> > > >     CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> > > 
> > > The output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo", as well as that of "dmidecode" is usually
> > > a lot more useful for diagnostics.  The dmidecode output might have serial
> > > numbers and UUIDs, which you should not post to the list, so feel free to
> > > XXXXX them out beforehand.
> > 
> > This is all rather ambiguous.
> 
> If you mean the dmidecode and /proc/cpuinfo output, it is not ambiguous at
> all, as long as you know why you want that info and what you will do with
> it.
> 
> If you mean lscpu, it has its reasons to exist: it outputs easy-to-grasp
> synthetic information.  But it lacks too much detail to be of use for
> debugging.

You're right; my mis-recalling a command and assuming the output
belonged to the other command.

> >         Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 15, Stepping 2
> 
> It tells me it is a Core2 processor of some kind.  Which is 64-bit capable,
> as long as the BIOS is not too oudated or outright braindamaged, which is
> something else I usually get out of the output of dmidecode + google search.
> 
> I don't think anyone shipped a Core2 with that bad a BIOS, let alone Dell,
> but I could be wrong about it.

I shall have a go at 64-bit then.

> > and the machine is only running a 32-bit Debian system and kernel,
> > would cpuinfo still say "CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit"?
> 
> That's lscpu output, not the contents of the /proc/cpuinfo "special file".

Yep; sorry.

Cheers,
David.


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