MintPPC

[xeno74]

Hi Roland,

I have the same error messages but without Segmentation fault and the video works.

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mintppc@debian:~$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.22-rc2 Vetinari (revision 3.0.22-rc2-0-a9d5a66e)
[00bd2b70] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[00c404f0] main playlist: playlist is empty
libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[df314ef0] main video output error: video output creation failed
[db31ceb0] main decoder error: failed to create video output

Cheers,
Christian

[Roland]

I have the same error messages but without Segmentation fault and the video works.

Strange... Did you earlier lock 'mesa' to an older version as adviced by mintppc, due to some problem in a newer version?

In my system these files are 'pinned' to v. 24.1.6-1 :
libegl-mesa0
libgbm1
libgl1-mesa.dri
libglapi-mesa
libosmesa6

There is a newer version available of some of them.

[Roland]

I got now OpenGLworking again with VLC! The problem seemed to be that some of the Mesa components were not locked and had been updated to the 25.xxx version. I did run though, the 'Mesa script' some times earlier... Shouldn't it have locked all the Mesa components? Or is it that Synaptic which I use for updates does not respect locking performed directly with APT? I did now pin them manually from Synaptic, too.

[xeno74]

I got now OpenGLworking again with VLC! The problem seemed to be that some of the Mesa components were not locked and had been updated to the 25.xxx version.

Good to know. Thanks for reporting!

[Roland]

I noticed that MintPPC seems to totally lack international language support. 'language-pack.xxx' and 'language-support.xxx' files are missing from the default depos. From where can they be downloaded? BTW, Fienix has the same problem.

[xeno74]

I noticed that MintPPC seems to totally lack international language support. 'language-pack.xxx' and 'language-support.xxx' files are missing from the default depos. From where can they be downloaded? BTW, Fienix has the same problem.

Hi Roland,

The language* packages are Ubuntu packages so you don't find them on MintPPC.

I was able to install the German language support with the following commands on MintPPC32 today.

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   apt update

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   apt install task-german-desktop

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   dpkg-reconfigure locales

4. Logout
5. Choose your language in the display manager and login

It works without any problems on my MintPPC32.

Cheers,
Christian

[Roland]

The language* packages are Ubuntu packages so you don't find them on MintPPC.

I was able to install the German language support with the following commands on MintPPC32 today.

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   apt update

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   apt install task-german-desktop

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   dpkg-reconfigure locales

4. Logout
5. Choose your language in the display manager and login

Thanks! I didn't know the languange support is differently named on MintPPC.

In my case, it was enough to install merely the correct environment ('task-finnish'). That made the spell checking (Voikko) to work with Abiword. Installing the desktop would cause much more changes, and I will not test it before I have made a backup of the MintPPC partition.