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Please update VLC to version 3.0.22-rc2 or upgrade your entire MintPPC32 system.

I updated first only VLC, then all the remaining packages, but no change! I still get the same issues with OpenGL:

$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.22-rc2 Vetinari (revision 3.0.22-rc2-0-a9d5a66e)
[01670b70] main libvlc ...

I upgraded my MintPPC32 today. Now I have VLC 3.0.22-rc2 installed.

I can play the mp4 (720p), avi (1080p) and h264 (1080p) videos of Big Buck Bunny with the following options.

Video: Output: OpenGL for Embedded Systems 2 video output

Input / Codecs: Hardware-accelerated decoding: VA-API video ...

xeno74 wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:19 am I released the RC7 of kernel 6.18 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Tested with MintPPC and Fienix... Working ok.

@mintppc

I run a bunch of updates for mintppc, with the consequence that VLC 3.0.21 was not able to use "OpenGL video output" for MP4 videos anymore... (just a black screen, only sound was normal) Any idea how to fix this? I already tried to downgrade va-mesa drivers (25.x -> 24.x) but it did not ...

@mintppc

I run a bunch of updates for mintppc, with the consequence that VLC 3.0.21 was not able to use "OpenGL video output" for MP4 videos anymore... (just a black screen, only sound was normal) Any idea how to fix this? I already tried to downgrade va-mesa drivers (25.x -> 24.x) but it did not ...

xeno74 wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 10:51 am Here is the RC6 of kernel 6.18 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

6.18-rc6 working ok here (tested with Adelie and MintPPC).

xeno74 wrote: Sat Nov 15, 2025 8:20 pm Thanks a lot for testing the RC5!

You are wellcome. Forgot to say that also the 6.12.57 LTS works ok.

xeno74 wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 5:16 am I released the RC5 of kernel 6.18 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Tested this on my X5000 (MintPPC and Fienix6) - works ok! Thanks .

Hi i started with the rootfs.

1: Download chimera-linux-ppc-ROOTFS-20250214-full.tar.gz
2: Extract chimera-linux-ppc-ROOTFS-20250214-full.tar.gz to a partition:
Tar -xvf chimera-linux-ppc-ROOTFS-20250214-full.tar.gz -C /mounted partition
3: Boot Chimera linux and login with root - chimera
4 ...

No, I haven't. I don't know your email address. I think you have reported an issue in the past and a developer has added you to this thread.

Where is that discussion located? How do you get them? I got messages with several different headlines, so it is not just one thread!

It came to my mind ...