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Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:54 am
by 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
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 1:32 pm
by Roland
xeno74 wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:54 am
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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 2:33 pm
by 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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 4:20 pm
by mintppc
Roland wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 1:32 pm
xeno74 wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:54 am
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 ?
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 4:25 pm
by Roland
mintppc wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 4:20 pm
@Roland you need a non-altivec build of VLC right ?
Yes, my machine has e5500.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 8:06 pm
by xeno74
xeno74 wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:54 am
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!
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 12:26 am
by mintppc
I have a VLC build !!!
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 5:28 am
by xeno74
mintppc wrote: Tue Sep 16, 2025 12:26 am
I have a VLC build !!!
Great! Thank you!
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 7:22 am
by mintppc
In QEMU on my machine VLC crashes when opening an mp4 file.
to install in MintPPC:
Let me know if it works, I am curious.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 8:38 am
by 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.
input/input.lo] Error 1