MintPPC

[xeno74]

So we have a Working VLC !!! Yeah.

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

Dave,

Well done! Have you also used the mesa script ?

Thanks,
Christian

[mintppc]

This is excellent news Dave, thanks for testing.

[Skateman]

Yeah mesa script used!

Dave

[Roland]

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.

VLC works now also on my machine (X5040). Thanks!-)

But there are a couple of other issues... I use the 'Mate' desktop, and I cannot get the 'Time and Date' tool (in Preferences) to work. It tries to open but closes itsef immediately. There is also another similar tool ('Time and Date manager' or something like that), and it opens itself normally, but all the options are inactivated. Thus, you cannot change any settings via it.

Also, how can configure MintPPC to login automatically to a certain account, without needing to choose the user and give the password? My old MintPPC installation does that but cannot anymore remember how it was configured.

[mintppc]

https://blog.bogdancaraman.com/set-time ... tp-debian/

https://askubuntu.com/questions/426831/ ... gin#741929

[MartinW]

What do you guys use for working on code in MintPPC, if anything? I'm referring to editors. I haven't found anything I can install yet. I thought I'd just go with NeoVIM but it won't install (dependency issues), there's no VSCode (not that that's my preference anyway) and I'm not really sure what else to look for. I'm pretty sure none of the Jetbrains stuff is likely to work.

[mintppc]

What would you like to use? Tell me, maybe I can build it.

NeoVIM cannot be built as a build-dep (lua-lpeg) is missing. I can try to disable tests in the build of lua-lpeg, it might run to completion then.

Another option is to install the older version 0.9.5-10 from snapshot.debian.org

You can also try Geany, a lightweight editor, available in Debian’s powerpc repo.

I built Xed, the default editor in Linux Mint. It works, not as feature rich as Geany though.

I built lua-peg successully too, so NeoVIM is an option now.

[MartinW]

Thanks. I’ll try some of these. To answer the initial question, on my desktop (Mac) I usually use any number of the Jetbrains IDEs (pycharm, rust rover, clion) but they’re not an option. Aside from that I use neovim, more specifically astronvim. The problem there is it needs 10+ and a whole load of plugins so I’d be amazed if they’re all working.

So given all that, I’ll try some of your suggestions. Thanks for your time sorting a few things out!

[Roland]

https://blog.bogdancaraman.com/set-time ... tp-debian/

Thanks, but I could not figure out which of these commands could possibly fix the issues with the 'Time and Date' tools...? I do not want to use cli commands to control the time/date but the graphical tools which both work ok with my old MintPPC installation.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/426831/ ... gin#741929

I copied the lightdm.conf from my old installation but it did have any effect. The new installation still opens the default login screen (is it xcfe?).

[mintppc]

It’s LXDE