Bug#404876: G3 (or other non-altivec machines) testers sought

[Bertrand Mingaud]

Hello !

I'm on an iBook G3 machine (ref M8600LL/A on Apple website), which
should be a non Altivec one if I understood well (?).

I tried your test and the result is "Instruction illégale".

Versions :
- gstreamer-base and -tools : 0.10.10-2
- kernel : linux-image-2.6.18 (locally compiled from Debian source with
Debian conf)

I then downloaded the new libvisual you pointed. The result has change :
"ERREUR: le tube n'a pas pu etre construit: tube vide non
autorisé." (The pipe couldn't be constructed, empty pipe forbidden).

What do you want me to do next ?

Hoping it could help you...

Bertrand

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Original Message Follows :
                                De: 
Sjoerd Simons
<sjoerd at spring.luon.net>
                        Répondre à: 
404876 at bugs.debian.org
                                 À: 
404876 at bugs.debian.org,
debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
                                Cc: 
lool at dooz.org, ds at schleef.org,
rbthomas55 at pobox.com,
yavor at doganov.org
                             Sujet: 
G3 (or other non-altivec machines)
testers sought
                              Date: 
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:08:03 +0100
              Client de messagerie: 
Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)


Hi,

  Gstreamer currently has a release critical bug that seems to be only
  reproducable on powerpc machines without altivec support and even then
not
  always. The best hint to what the problem might be seems to indicate
there is
  an issue in the libvisual altivec detection code[0]..
  
  Also for some reporters the problem went away (!?). Google revealed
that
  pld-linux re-enabled the altivec detection because it works ``on fixed
  kernel''. So it might be related to specific kernel versions. 

  So what i would like people to do (Only on machine without altivec!):
   
   0: Install gstreamer 0.10 (at least gstreamer0.10-plugins-base and
      gstreamer0.10-tools from etch)
   1: Run: 
        rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.xml  
        gst-launch-0.10 --gst-disable-registry-fork
   2a: If it doesn't crash:
     - please try on an older kernel if possible
   2b: If it does crash:
     - please try on a newer (debian) kernel if possible 
     - if that doesn't help try the libvisual packages at:
       http://people.debian.org/~sjoerd/libvisual/
   3: Thanks for testing! Please mail your experiences, kernel versions,
      machines types etc.
  
  Sjoerd
0: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404876;msg=88
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