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On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Thnkpad 770E 266MHz 228MB RAM, lovely sound, volume dial.  Crystal CS4237B
> (or similar) works with cs4232 (or cs4236 alsa) driver.
>
> As usual, mplayer works offline (I had to change dma2 to 5 instead of 0
> for some reason possibly related to booting via UBCD on this computer
> where hard drives won't boot) but crashes online
>
> interrupted by signal 11 in module:open_stream
>
> or other error messages.  I tried several versions, one of which said it
> was not compiled for this CPU, 1.0pre7try2 with glibc236 and gcc from
> Slackware 11.  I could not compile this using older gcc and I probably
> could not compile anything newer but I will check again.  See archives.

I am compiling mplayer again.  rc2 and rc1 will not compile even with gcc 
from Slackware 11.  rc1pre7 worked with that gcc.  0.93 will not compile 
with SW11 gcc (lots of warnings) but WILL compile with 2.95.3 from 
Slackware 8.1 so I am using that combination.  But glibc236 since that is 
what is now on here.  I will on request attempt to recompile with glibc225 
if this experiment works.  I don't think it make a huge difference in 
memory usage to use 236.

I need to --enable-runtime-cpudetection or it will compile to only work 
(or work best) on the machine on which I compiled it.  I don't know if I 
did that in previous compilations.

As the compilation was going by (on a 2.7GHz 2003 computer with replaced 
caps that boots only to floppy disk but can cd to hd and use loadlin), I 
noticed that I was compiling only for i686.  The error messages when I 
tried to use mplayer online on older laptops were all about bad use of 
CPU, with notes about MMX, SSE, etc.

The laptops where all these mplayers (including David's, I think) do not 
work online are PII 233-266Mhz, and AMD K6-2 400-475MHz (they went to 
550Mhz but I had given that one away already).  I looked up i586 and these 
are all i586 and do not accept all the instructions that i686 does, 
therefore the 'illegal instruction' when I try to use them online.

Mplayer configure did not seem to offer an option for i586 but I manually 
changed two lines in config.mak, backed it up, did a make clean and 
started over.  I disabled everything related to video on the configure 
line (could not find a --disable-video option) along with mencoder, 
locale, iconv).  The result for i686 works online on this computer.
That for i586 works online on this computer (but so do all the others).

These mplayers also did not work to play DVDs on the AMD-K6-2 400Mhz
but I think did work on the PII-266Mhz (very jerky).

What I compiled is for sound only.  I have enough DVD players.

I need to go offline to test on the older laptops.  Back soon.