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-====== AMD 64 - 64 bits ======
-When you have a 64 bits processor you can use a 64 bits version of linux for taking advantage of the full possibilities of your processor (all distributions have a 64 bits version).
-However there are some differences with 32 bits distributions, most often due to packages that don't exist for 64 bits.
-===== Flash =====
-Unfortunately there is no 64 bits Adobe Flash plugin.
-The first possibility was to install 32 bits binaries of firefox to use 32 bits plugin. The problem is that it is possible to launch simultaneously a 64 bits and 32 bits version of firefox, so that you had the choice between using always the 32 bits binaries (which is a little bit frustrating), or closing all your sessions of firefox when you want to use flash and launch the 32 bits version.
-But now there is a solution : ''nspluginwrapper'' which, as its name suggests it, wraps 32 bits plugins to launch them in your 64 bits browser.
-Moreover, it is difficult to make simpler :
-<code>
-emerge nspluginwrapper
-nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
-</code>
-I tested it with flash7 and flash9 and it works just perfect.
-==== The sound problem ====
-For a long time I experienced a sound problem with Amd64+Flash+ndiswrapper: flash was stealing the sound card and never releasing it, so that I had no sound in Flash if I was using sound in other software, and once I used sound in Flash I couldn't get it back in other software. The only solution was to restart alsasound service (''/etc/init.d/alsasound restart''), that was killing Flash with all other software using sound, but if I wanted Flash back I had to restart firefox. Pretty annoying.
-After a long search, I ended finding a really simple solution [[http://gentoo-wiki.com/Adobe_Flash/AMD64#Troubleshooting_Flash:_Sound_Problems|here]]: just rebuild ''emul-linux-x86-soundlibs''.