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Roland
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Re: Void Linux

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xeno74 wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:51 pm Could you please report this issue to the Void PPC developers?

Link: Void packages issues
Done... But it was very laborous to create an account there. None of the X5000's browsers did work properly, and even the latest Firefox (in x86 Linux) was not able to show the last control code on screen (had to be audited)! They really don't want new users to Github...
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Re: Void Linux

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Roland wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 11:15 am Done... But it was very laborous to create an account there. None of the X5000's browsers did work properly, and even the latest Firefox (in x86 Linux) was not able to show the last control code on screen (had to be audited)! They really don't want new users to Github...
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Re: Void Linux

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This screenshot of Skateman's suggests that Void on an X5000 can handle video.
https://www.skateman.nl/wp-content/uplo ... -32-06.png
So I must be failing to do something, or doing something wrong.
If I try to view a downloaded MP4 file with VLC media player, I get a good clear still picture, and the full length of sound, but no movement in the picture. Please give me a hint on how I might fix this.

UPDATE!
I found a couple of MP4 videos, one of which shows jerky movements about one second apart. The other one is largely still, but portions of it do show sudden scene changes, and some of them are one second apart.

I can only play these with VLC by clicking on their icons. If I try to do it by opening VLC and clicking the Media button, Void crashes and I have to use the restart button on the machine!

Eolie can't handle Youtube files on my Void. Youtube comes up, I click on something that looks interesting, the play screen appears with that ever-revolving C in the middle, and a message about restarting the system if nothing comes up, but after a while a picture does appear, presumably the beginning of the video, with the red ">" play button in the middle of the screen and the spinning "C" behind it. I can get little still pictures by cllicking on the time line at the bottom of the video screen,

Interweb plays Youtube OK, but I have that old familiar color problem. ArcticFox turns out to be the way to go. Perfect!
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Re: Void Linux

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kilaueabart wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:22 pm This screenshot of Skateman's suggests that Void on an X5000 can handle video.
https://www.skateman.nl/wp-content/uplo ... -32-06.png
So I must be failing to do something, or doing something wrong.
kilaueabart wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:56 pm Image
I'm pretty sure this means rc4 is working on a basic level at least.
You don't have hardware 3D acceleration (softpipe -- see your screenshot). Which graphics card do you use?
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Re: Void Linux

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xeno74 wrote: Tue Apr 05, 2022 3:41 am You don't have hardware 3D acceleration (softpipe -- see your screenshot). Which graphics card do you use?
This question comes up frequently, but two of the things I keep forgetting as my mind fades away: 1. Name of my graphics card. 2. How to find out.

Poking around someplace, I stumbled on "Radeon HD 7750/8740 R7 250E." Is that relevant? Whenever this comes up because pof some problem I have, I wonder. Is it changeable? Should I change it?

Arctic Fox obvkously doesn't need hardware 3D acceleration to play Youtube perfectly. Is it VLC and/or Interweb's problems that I need it for? I think Fienix gets by OK with llvmpipe.
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Re: Void Linux

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Hi Kilaueabart,

I would recommend you to buy a RadeonHD 4xxx, 5xxx, or 6xxx graphics card. With these graphics cards, video playback and hardware 3D acceleration works great on Linux PPC.

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Re: Void Linux

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I managed to wipe out my 20220129 version of void. I have reinstalled it, and am gradually trying to get all the stuff I had on it back. High on the list is the ability to type cjk. I installed IBus and some cjk fonts. IBus Preferences comes up properly, and I can choose among JA / KO / EN with Shift^Space, but all I can type is EN (English).

I thought maybe I needed to add Anthy, so I installed that too, but I have no idea how to make it cooperate.

One other possible problem is that when I start IBus I get that little window that says if it doesn't work I should "add the following lines to my $HOME/.bashrc," namely "export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus" and two more. So far as I can find out, I have no .bashrc in my void. What should I try next?
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Re: Void Linux

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kilaueabart wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:46 am I have no .bashrc in my void. What should I try next?
Hi Kilaueabart,

The user amigaone has a .bashrc.

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[amigaone@void-ppc ~]$ echo $SHELL

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/bin/bash

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ls -l .bashrc

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-rw-r--r-- 1 amigaone amigaone 135 May  4  2021 .bashrc

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[amigaone@void-ppc ~]$ cat .bashrc

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# .bashrc

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
If you don't have a .bashrc then you can create it. Please check if you work with a Bash shell. You can check it with the command "echo $SHELL".

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Re: Void Linux

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Christian, thanks for all that. I was able to add the lines in question to .bashrc, but I still couldn't type Japanese or Korean. I looked at how things are in the original void, and the .bashrc there has no such lines. To make a long story short, I finally figured out that my mistake had been installing IBus when what I really needed were ibus-anthy and ibus-hangul to get the necessary "engines."
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Re: Void Linux

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kilaueabart wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:21 pm I finally figured out that my mistake had been installing IBus when what I really needed were ibus-anthy and ibus-hangul to get the necessary "engines."
Good to know. Thanks for reporting.
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