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Topic: mplayer.dsl not working for me with ver. 1.4, Getting illegal instruction error

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hawki

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Posted: Aug. 31 2005,12:55

Hi
I've downloaded and md5sum checked the mplayer.dsl from the repository. It places an icon on the desktop and adds a menu item when I load it. When I tried to run it nothing seemed to happen. Trying to run it from a shell prompt gives me an "Illegal instruction" error. Did I miss a requisite? Do I need to configure something else?

Thanks

adraker

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Posted: Aug. 31 2005,20:55

Hawki,
Do you have Xfree86.dsl up and running?
The mplayer-xfree86.dsl and XFree86.dsl
packages play nicely together.
Once you get you config file sorted out,
they should run well, at least on a reasonably
fast processor and a video card with some acceleration.

hawki

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Posted: Aug. 31 2005,21:19

adraker
Thanks
No I am tryng to run the stand-alone version. I'm running Xfbdev because of some hardware issues and really don't want to complicate my life more by configuring XFree86. I was just trying to listen to some streaming audio that uses .asx file format and I thought mplayer would be the easiest to use. Maybe something else would work better for me.

thanks again

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Posted: Aug. 31 2005,22:26

Mplayer doesn't work with Xfbdev. You have to use Xvesa or Xfree.

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hawki

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Posted: Sep. 01 2005,18:17

Hi
Thanks but that doesn't seem to be my problem. I just tried running it with Xvesa and again on an old laptop I have and got the same error. There must be something else going on I don't know about.
Thanks again

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