[MPlayer-dev-eng] new Altivec patches and G3

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:12:15PM -0700, Tim Wojtulewicz wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Alan Curry wrote:
> 
> >Andrea's bug report probably only applies to --enable-runtime- 
> >cpudetection
> 
> It doesn't crash with that turned on.  I'm not sure what's up with  
> that.  The only time I can make it crash is when I specify that I  
> want altivec during configuration.

Then everything is OK.  If you force AltiVec on, it will crash on a
machine without AltiVec...

> >OK then, what is the output of
> >  sysctl -n hw.vectorunit
> >and
> >  sysctl -n hw.optional.altivec
> 
> The second one returns "second level name optional in  
> hw.optional.altivec is invalid".  Changing them '= "1"' instead of '- 
> eq 1' seems to have fixed it.

Please post the exact output of those two commands on the command line.
What is your OS X version?

Diego