MintPPC

[xeno74]

FYI: Hardware 3D acceleration doesn’t work currently (LLVM issue).

Maybe this helps: Downgrade mesa

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echo '## MintPPC32 additional repository
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/MintPPC32_additional_repository.asc] http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa ./' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt install libegl-mesa0=24.1.6-1 libgbm1=24.1.6-1 libgl1-mesa-dri=24.1.6-1 \
libglx-mesa0=24.1.6-1 mesa-va-drivers=24.1.6-1 mesa-vdpau-drivers=24.1.6-1 \
mesa-vulkan-drivers=24.1.6-1
sudo apt hold libegl-mesa0=24.1.6-1 libgbm1=24.1.6-1 libgl1-mesa-dri=24.1.6-1 \
libglx-mesa0=24.1.6-1 mesa-va-drivers=24.1.6-1 mesa-vdpau-drivers=24.1.6-1 \
mesa-vulkan-drivers=24.1.6-1

Link to the repository

[Roland]

FYI: Hardware 3D acceleration doesn’t work currently (LLVM issue).

Does the video acceleration still work? And is VLC installable? With the earlier root image it was not possible to install it at all.

[mintppc]

I will try to build a non-altivec vlc package.
edit1: it took me ages to get all build-deps in, but I have them now, they are installing in my sandboxed chroot (540 packages!)
edit2: configuring (see pic)
edit3: bad news:

input/input.c: In function 'InitTitle':
input/input.c:909:19: error: assignment to 'const input_title_t **' from incompatible pointer type 'input_title_t **' [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
909 | priv->title = p_master->title;
| ^
make[5]: *** [Makefile input/input.lo] Error 1
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

edit4: one last try with an even older vlc source package
edit5: one very last try with the latest vlc, I saw that non-altivec arches build, only powerpc didn't build. In the powerpc build log I see an error related to altivec. Maybe if I disable altivec in this version, it might build ....fingers crossed.

[mintppc]

FYI: Hardware 3D acceleration doesn’t work currently (LLVM issue).

Does the video acceleration still work? And is VLC installable? With the earlier root image it was not possible to install it at all.

@Roland you need a non-altivec build of VLC right ?

[Roland]

@Roland you need a non-altivec build of VLC right ?

Yes, my machine has e5500.

[xeno74]

FYI: Hardware 3D acceleration doesn’t work currently (LLVM issue).

Maybe this helps: Downgrade mesa

The mesa script has solved the issue. Hardware 3D acceleration works!

[mintppc]

I have a VLC build !!!

[xeno74]

I have a VLC build !!!

Great! Thank you!

[mintppc]

In QEMU on my machine VLC crashes when opening an mp4 file.

to install in MintPPC:

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apt update
apt install vlc

Let me know if it works, I am curious.

[Skateman]

So we have a Working VLC !!! Yeah.

I had to adjust de video output setting, and also Mesa did fix the 3D suipport.



Everything Mplayer based does still crash though..
This is what the log tells us.

MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: demux_open
ID_SIGNAL=4
- MPlayer crashed by an 'Illegal Instruction'.
It may be a bug in our new runtime CPU-detection code...
Please read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly.