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Re: MintPPC
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:57 am
by 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
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 1:33 pm
by Roland
xeno74 wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:57 am
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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:03 pm
by 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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2025 4:33 am
by xeno74
Roland wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:03 pm
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!
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 1:47 pm
by 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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2026 6:00 am
by xeno74
Roland wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 1:47 pm
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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- Logout
- Choose your language in the display manager and login
It works without any problems on my MintPPC32.
Cheers,
Christian
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2026 1:57 pm
by Roland
xeno74 wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 6:00 am
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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- Logout
- 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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 3:40 am
by MartinW
I don't suppose anyone has a Qemu config that can run the mintppc single partition image do they? I need to test something and my X5040 is out of commission at the moment. My qemu config will boot the void live image but not the mint one so I clearly have something wrong. It's been a few months since I've done anything with this so I'm probably forgetting something key!