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Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 4:40 pm
by Ribdevil
Thanks.
Where are the cyrus.dtb ?

Virginio

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 6:17 pm
by xeno74
Ribdevil wrote:Thanks.
Where are the cyrus.dtb ?

Virginio
Here you are:
daz wrote: Try this one, its the one we got with the initial linux install.

(It is compressed as forum needs it like that)
cyrus.dtb.zip
Regards
Darren

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:12 pm
by caseycullen
Just following up about video playback on X5000 with MATE PowerPC Remix 0.5...

The MPlayer app with mpv as the engine and opengl as the decoder works fine and performs pretty well. Direct Rendering can be enabled and I found that setting decode threads to 2 gave best performance. However, vdpau does not work with mpv engine and will cause a crash (vdpau did work in the MPlayer app using mplayer engine and opengl decoder in MATE 16.04). Since mplayer engine wasn't installed I did not try it.
VLC doesn't work on X5000, and the MPV app performs much worse than MPlayer for some reason. Xine launched but upon trying to play a video my entire system locked up.

So, I'd recommend using MPlayer with mpv engine, opengl decoder, direct rendering and set to use 2 threads. I tested with a variety of 1080p videos.

---casey

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:29 pm
by xeno74
caseycullen wrote:Just following up about video playback on X5000 with MATE PowerPC Remix 0.5...

The MPlayer app with mpv as the engine and opengl as the decoder works fine and performs pretty well. Direct Rendering can be enabled and I found that setting decode threads to 2 gave best performance. However, vdpau does not work with mpv engine and will cause a crash (vdpau did work in the MPlayer app using mplayer engine and opengl decoder in MATE 16.04). Since mplayer engine wasn't installed I did not try it.
VLC doesn't work on X5000, and the MPV app performs much worse than MPlayer for some reason. Xine launched but upon trying to play a video my entire system locked up.

So, I'd recommend using MPlayer with mpv engine, opengl decoder, direct rendering and set to use 2 threads. I tested with a variety of 1080p videos.

---casey
Hi Casey,

Many thanks for testing. Unfortunately the MPlayer engine doesn't work on the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017.

Error message:

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/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x2049a790 for symbol `htonl' out of range
We tested it on the X5000 and X1000. Maybe we could try the MPlayer engine from Debian Sid. VLC doesn't work on the X5000. I think because of the missing AltiVec engine.

Cheers,
Christian

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:27 am
by xeno74
Hi All,

Which apps shall I add to the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017?

Planned:
  • Firefox 53.0
  • Thunderbird 52.0.1
I have added some new apps to the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 this week.

Preliminary MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 0.6 changelog:
  • Some new wallpapers
  • Apache 2.4.25-3 added
  • libapache2-mod-php7.0_7.0.15-1 added
  • MySQL server 5.7.17 added (Password for the MySQL "root" user: amigaone)
  • MySQL client 5.7.17 added
  • PHP7.0-mysql added
  • phpMyAdmin 4.6.5.1-1 added
  • Claws Mail 3.14.1-3 added
  • Pidgin 2.12 added
  • Empathy 3.12.12 added
  • Cheese 3.22.1 added
  • Neverputt 1.6.0-7 added
  • GCompris 15.02-1 added
  • Tuxpaint 0.9.22-3 added
  • MPlayer2 0.24 added
  • Alex the Allegator4 1.1-7 added
  • Barbie Seahorse Adventures 1.1 added
  • Trigger Rally 0.6.5 added
Thanks,
Christian

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Fri May 12, 2017 9:06 am
by xeno74
New preliminary MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 0.6 changelog:

New:
  • Many new wallpapers
  • Mesa 17.2.0-devel (git-f466683)
  • FS-UAE 2.8.0 with launcher added
  • Apache 2.4.25-3 added
  • libapache2-mod-php7.0_7.0.15-1 added
  • MySQL server 5.7.17 added (Password for the MySQL "root" user: amigaone)
  • MySQL client 5.7.17 added
  • PHP7.0-mysql added
  • phpMyAdmin 4.6.5.1-1 added
  • Claws Mail 3.14.1-3 added
  • Pidgin 2.12 added
  • Empathy 3.12.12 added
  • Cheese 3.22.1 added
  • Neverputt 1.6.0-7 added
  • GCompris 15.02-1 added
  • Tuxpaint 0.9.22-3 added
  • MPlayer2 0.24 added
  • Alex the Allegator4 1.1-7 added
  • Barbie Seahorse Adventures 1.1 added
  • Trigger Rally 0.6.5 added
  • Bos Wars 2.7-svn160110 added
  • ScummVM 1.9.0 added

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 2:49 am
by caseycullen
xeno74 wrote:
Hi Casey,

Many thanks for testing. Unfortunately the MPlayer engine doesn't work on the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017.

Error message:

Code: Select all

/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x2049a790 for symbol `htonl' out of range
We tested it on the X5000 and X1000. Maybe we could try the MPlayer engine from Debian Sid. VLC doesn't work on the X5000. I think because of the missing AltiVec engine.

Cheers,
Christian
Hi Christian,
I just tried MPlayer from Sid, same issue:

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/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x2075754c for symbol `htonl' out of range
I think this is happening because the code was compiled without -fPIC

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 3:03 pm
by xeno74
caseycullen wrote: Hi Christian,
I just tried MPlayer from Sid, same issue:

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/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x2075754c for symbol `htonl' out of range
I think this is happening because the code was compiled without -fPIC
Maybe we could try to self compile the MPlayer. Thank you for testing it on Debian Sid.

-- Christian

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 1:35 am
by caseycullen
xeno74 wrote:
caseycullen wrote: Hi Christian,
I just tried MPlayer from Sid, same issue:

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/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x2075754c for symbol `htonl' out of range
I think this is happening because the code was compiled without -fPIC
Maybe we could try to self compile the MPlayer. Thank you for testing it on Debian Sid.

-- Christian
Good news, the version of mplayer from deb-multimedia repositories works on X5000 with Output driver 'gl (fast - ATI cards)', and direct rendering enabled; VDPAU hardware decoding also works.
Repository: deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org sid main

Re: (X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 17.04 Zesty Zapus

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 1:29 pm
by xeno74
caseycullen wrote: Good news, the version of mplayer from deb-multimedia repositories works on X5000 with Output driver 'gl (fast - ATI cards)', and direct rendering enabled; VDPAU hardware decoding also works.
Repository: deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org sid main
Fantastic! Thank you for the hint! Which packages did you install?