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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:47:24 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

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

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?

While using mpe123 I typed mplayer file.wav >stdo 2>stder.
It told me 'illegal instruction'

It looks like a processor incompatibility.

stdo: (standard output to screen?)

Just a name I chose. The > redirection redirects stdout to
a file, of course, 2> redirects stderr, too.

MPlayer 1.0pre5-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium MMX P55C 349.3 MHz (Family: 5, Stepping: 3)

It looks like a Celeron chip to me. It will need a different
MPlayer binary which can handle it. I will try to build one.
I am hoping that either I or Stephen Clemente will figure out
how.

This is a regular Intel 233MHz cpu, as far as I know. Is there something in dmesg that would tell me more?

233MHz Intel MMX stepping 03

The 350MHz has an AMD K6 3D in Super Socket 7 and mplayer gets the same error messages (both BL2 and BL3).
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c


Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading config file /usr/etc/mplayer/mplayer.confReading config
file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading
/usr/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Using built-in default codecs.conf.


stder: (error messages?)
: No such file or directory
Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Can't open '/usr/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory


Maybe your BL3 has something mine does not. Has anyone else tried
your mplayer yet?

Not to my knowledge.

I posted that right before Ron Clarke reported.

It worked for Ron. Ron, do you have i686?

Yes, he does. Actually, a P3, which IIRC is an i786.

Maybe our 600MHz will work too, since his is that speed. We replaced six bulging capacitors in something given us to recycle.

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.

We have a PPro under construction too, 200MHz with dual cpus. Why
is this better than a 233MHz PI?

Well, dual CPUs can provide approximately twice the speed on applications
designed to take advantage of it. Also, the PPro has a more efficient
architecture, which also improves performance.

Another incentive to get it put together this year. It is rather large and is occupying the only comfortable chair in my apartment. But if 350MHz won't do it, this older board probably won't either.

Perhaps Stephen Clement can compile for something slower and PI.

I will also try the Compaq 475MHz which works with Realaudio but not with its own onboard video chip in linux.


The 350MHz which is still together has an AMD-K6 3D processor. My
ethernet is not working this week so I can't easily test it right
now. Won't ping. I made sure the cables were pushed in at both
ends. What else might I try to diagnose the problem? It has always
been finicky.

Are there any patterns to its operation? Does it only work in certain
conditions?

I fixed it. I had copied over a file from another computer and it was insmodding the wrong ethernet module. This is unrelated to having to push the cable in sometimes - user error.


David

Sindi




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