[MPlayer-users] mplayer Athlon XP trouble

[Marc-Tell Volkmann]

Hello,

I have an old bugreport from february 2003 attached to this mail.



> > since 6 Month I tell you, that the mplayer does not work on my machine.
> > Yesterday I have found the solution for that trouble.
> > The fault was the Bios of my mainboard.
> > I own a k7s5a lan mainboard ( elitegroup ) with 512MB DDR RAM an a Athlon
> > XP2200+ CPU.
> > I had compiled mplayer with mmx,sse,3dnow,... and without
> > mmx,ss,3dnow,... but the trouble was not gone.
> > With the official Bios mplayer doesn´t work on my board but after an
> > update with a inofficial bios update ( cheepobios 1.12 ) mplayer starts
> > to work fine
> >
> > :-)
>
> What specifically was MPlayer doing? Was it crashing (Signal 11,
> SIGSEGV, Segfault, etc)? What -vo and -ao were you using? Did you try
> different video out and audio out modules? If something in the BIOS were
> preventing MPlayer from working, I would expect it to profoundly affect
> the OS and other programs, since MPlayer doesn't use the BIOS directly
> itself.
>
Hello,

MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: video_read_properties
- MPlayer crashed by 'Illegal Instruction'. It usually happens when you run it 

mplayer has crashed by any video-format mpeg,avi,....
no options are used ( -vo or -ao ).

The new bios enhance the athlon xp+ options.
I think mplayer use instructions of the Athlon XP+ that the bios has not 
aktivated. The k7s5a is a VERY cheap mainboard!
mplayer recognize an athlon xp+ use that instruction ( for better perfomance I 
think ) and..... crash!

With the inofficial bios these instructions are activated and mplayer can 
play.
Thats my idea why mplayer plays with the new bios.


Marc-Tell Volkmann



Here my old bugreport:
Hello,
here is my BUG-Report:

since I have changed to a new mainboard (K7S5A) + ATHLON XP2200+ CPU I can't 
start mplayer anymore.
I have it compiled with mmx,3dnow,... without mmx,...
but nothing happened. I think it is a bug in your code. For more detailes 
please tell me, what can I do.

I have trouble with playing ANY video (avi,mpg,...)
mplayer was compiled on the same Computer were it run!


Mfg
Marc-Tell Volkmann



RedHat8.0
Kernel: 2.4.20
libc-2.2.93
XFree86 Version 4.2.0
gcc version 3.2
GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2
GNU assembler 2.13.90.0.2
CPU:
        processor       : 0
        vendor_id        : AuthenticAMD
        cpu family       : 6
        model              : 8
        model name     : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
        stepping        : 0
        cpu MHz         : 1792.287
        cache size      : 256 KB
        fdiv_bug        : no
        hlt_bug         : no
        f00f_bug        : no
        coma_bug        : no
        fpu             : yes
        fpu_exception   : yes
        cpuid level     : 1
        wp              : yes
        flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
                                pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 
3dnow
        bogomips        : 3567.44

GPU:
        NVidia GeGforce 4 4200 128MB DDR
        X11-Nvidia-driver V1.0-3123

SND: Creative Soundblaster LIVE!

In here the BUG:
MPlayer 0.90rc3-3.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: Datei oder 
Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Reading config file /home/telly/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/telly/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/telly/.mplayer/codecs.conf': Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 123 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/telly/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Keine Berechtigung
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system 
startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/telly/.mplayer/input.conf : Datei oder 
Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : Datei oder 
Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing section1-de-low.wmv
Detected ASF file format!
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 object size = 38
 stream count=[0x2][2]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x478f][18319]
   stream id=[0x2][2]
   max bitrate=[0x13f5e][81758]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
VIDEO:  [WMV2]  240x180  24bpp


MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: video_read_properties
- MPlayer crashed by 'Illegal Instruction'. It usually happens when you run it 
on different CPU than it was compiled/optimized for. Verify this!
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with 
--enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. For details, see 
DOCS/bugreports.html section 5.b.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen. It can be a bug in the MPlayer code 
_or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's 
fault, please read DOCS/bugreports.html and follow instructions there. We 
can't and won't help unless you provide these informations when reporting a 
possible bug.