On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 15:07, Jack Howarth wrote: > Is anyone else seeing crashes in vlc 0.2.92-4 when you play a > dvd on ppc? The previous 0.2.92-1 through -3 source packages wouldn't > build on my ppc machine because of some changes for MacOS X which > introduced a vand altivec asm instruction our devtools doesn't > support. Locally I had regressed the altivec test back to the > old assembly and got the same sort of crash in vlc that I see > in 0.2.92-4.
Works here so it seems to be an altivec specific failure. > The maintainer only knows one developer who has a ppc linux box and he > hasn't heard back yet from him. It might be helpful to get some more > info on this bug to him if anyone has a useful strace or gdb log. Sounds like you're in a good position to provide that? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
