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Offline ulfr

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vlc will not start
« on: August 26, 2020, 01:03:02 PM »

    hi all

    i am trying to set up tinycore 11 with firefox and vlc

    firefox esr will run play youtube and has sound

    vlc will not start with errors   
 
    failed to intialise XRander
    and others 

    any ideas

   thanks

   ulfr

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2020, 06:06:23 PM »
Hi ulfr
That sounds like maybe you need to be running  Xorg  to use  vlc.

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2020, 06:07:39 PM »

     thanks rich

     i will try adding xorg

     ulfr 

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2020, 06:09:40 PM »
Hi ulfr
Actually, you need to switch from  Xvesa  to  Xorg.

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2020, 07:22:39 PM »


     hi rich 

     alas loading X gives the same error 


     wanderer 

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2020, 10:48:43 PM »
Assuming you are speaking of the vlc3 extension with Core-11.x...

This seems to work fine:
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$ tce-load -i graphics-KERNEL alsa-config Xorg-7.7 pavucontrol vlc3
$ startx

..then start pavucontrol and start vlc

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2020, 10:49:36 PM »
here are the errors
the same if xorg is loaded or not 

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[08539290] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
qt.qpa.xcb: failed to initialize XRandr
qt.qpa.xcb: XKeyboard extension not present on the X server
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-tc'
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/local/lib/dri)

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/local/lib/dri)

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/local/lib/dri)

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/local/lib/dri)

Illegal instruction


ulfr

    [EDIT]: Added code tags.  Rich
« Last Edit: August 27, 2020, 04:04:00 AM by Rich »

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2020, 10:50:30 PM »

   thanks will try 

   ulfr

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2020, 04:09:05 AM »
Hi ulfr
here are the errors
the same if xorg is loaded or not 

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[08539290] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
 ----- Snip -----

Illegal instruction
Thats a problem. It means the program needs to execute an instruction that your processor does not support.

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2020, 05:43:05 AM »
I updated vlc3 and forced it to compile for i486, maybe you could update your version and try again?

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2020, 11:59:36 AM »

     thanks very much guys

     much appreciated

     will try with new one 


     ulfr

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2020, 01:48:10 PM »

      hi guys

      tried new vlc3 from repo
      same error

      here is what i did to replicate error

      made home and tce on sda1
     
      downloaded
     
      alsa-config
      alsa
      pulseaudio

      vlc3 
      firefox-ESR 

      loaded them in that order
      firefox-ESR runs plays youtube with sound
      vlc3 give same error and will not start

      vlc3 works with sound on tinycore 10
   
      i note that the deps for vlc3 in 10 and 11 are different 

      thanks 

      ulfr




     

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2020, 10:19:17 PM »
What processor do you have?

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2020, 01:25:26 AM »

  hi juanito

  thank you for all your help but i fear i am taking up too much of your time
  have other people reported this issue 

  the processor on this machine is an old intel celeron

  however since the vlc3 in tinycore 10 worked and the vlc3 in tinycore 11 didn't
  what has changed between the two

  thanks again

  ulfr 

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Re: vlc will not start
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2020, 01:32:52 AM »
It looks like an instruction that an intel celeron cannot process crept in somehow.

The latest vlc3 was compiled with both "-march=i486 -mtune=i686" and "--target=i486-pc-linux-gnu" and reports it was configured for "architecture          : i486 mmx sse sse2"

Does the tc-10.x vlc3 work in tc-11.x?