Aftering installing Everything needed, all other xine Compatable media players refusing to play MP3’s BUT Amarok 1.4. However, when Amarok is Maximised (active window)MP3s will play for 2 seconds and stop, but Minimized, it plays fine.
even Kaffine will refuse saying Resources are missing.
now theres a Glitch in the iMac that could maybe causing this to create instability, its known that these G3 iMacs have been how to say this… “picky” about Non Apple Hard DRives. example, used a old Maxtor 8GB hdd, and it began acting weird, reporting False HDD errors, reporting that the internal DVD drive was having reading errors, that OpenFirmware refusing to Boot CDs otherthan OS9/Linux [would refuse to boot OSX DVD/CD’s] and even then w/ a other distro “Xubuntu PPC” it’d Probe for video Make a Loud whining noise and become unresponsive to even the Hardware Power/reset buttons.
all that went away by using a Seagate HDD. but back to the prob. now i dunn know if its because this iMac’s Processor is lacking Altavec or if its something within Amarok itself. Looking to find out here if anyone besiders me is seeing this prob on PPC Macs
I don’t know anything about PPC hardware, but running KDE4 on an old Mac looks to me to be “pushing the envelope”.
I think it would help if you let us know where you obtained your media players from and what version. How about providing the output of typing the following in a konsole:
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rpm -q amarok kaffeine mad && rpm -qa | grep xine**
… also a caveat, I don’t have a Mac, … I’ve never used a Mac (for over 20 years) and so any suggestions I provide are openSUSE generic, and not specific to your hardware.
Well, I was going to suggest you replace your xine-lib with libxine1 on packman. But I note that there is no PPC version of libxine1 for the PPC on Packman: PackMan :: xine-lib
I don’t suppose you are any good at rebuilding an rpm from a source rpm?
Maybe you could use that pacman link I provided above, to contact the libxine1 packager, and very nicely ask if they would not mind packaging an openSUSE-11.0 version of libxine1.
my one budd who’s been doing this for me (getting some help) is currently working on recompling a PPC vers of libxine1
bt a lil more info
PCI Buss listing:
linux-m8cc:~ # lspci
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
0000:00:10.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RL/VR AGP
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI
0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 02)
0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI
0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth FireWire (rev 01)
0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev ff)
Copied text from top while amarok is playing (currently stuck using gstreamer)