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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> > Did you get another error message? How did you play this?
> > mplayer file.wav should start playing. It does here, with
> > nothing but BL3.
> >
> 
> I tried it in BL2.  mplayer file.wav. It wants font.desc

Can you add >stdo 2>stder to the end of the command, and post
the stdo and stder files here please?

> I just mounted and chrooted to BL3 and copied mplayer and the 
> config file there and tried to listen to wdav.  I get the same 
> complaint about no font.desc after using built-in codecs.conf.
> 
> Maybe your BL3 has something mine does not.  Has anyone else tried 
> your mplayer yet?

Not to my knowledge.

> >> Mplayer told me my cpu type and speed, and that I have MMX (cpu)
> >> and 3DNow and SSE2.  Also
> >> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:  MMX
> >>
> >> Do I need MMX cpu to use this version?  Pentiums slower than 166MHz
> >> don't have that.
> >
> > It may need a PII. I can't figure out how to make it work on CPUs older
> > than the machine I compiled it on. I first compiled it on a P4, but then
> > it wouldn't work on my P2. So I recompiled it on my P2.
> 
> Mine is a 233 MHz PI.  I have a 350MHz machine with super socket 7 
> - is that still a PI?

No. It should be a PII, or Celeron or PPro at worst.

> A PII is under construction and we have a 
> working one at another location from here where I will try next.  
> Not exactly the generation BL3 is aiming at, but people are now 
> throwing out early PIIs here.  I don't like them because they have 
> ATX power supplies and only two ISA slots (or none).
> 
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> 
> Do I need more of these to be 1 and not 0?

No.

> What does Mplayer say about these on your PII?

Exactly the same thing. The PII only has regular MMX.

David

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