Mplayer

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:44:46AM -0500, jayclark wrote:

> I installed mplayer through Synaptic, I had to install mplayer-custom
> since mplayer-i386 was missing dependecys or I had a newer version of
> one. It installed fine but it won't launch. So I went to the terminal
> and this is the error I get.
> 
> 
> CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 1036 MHz
> (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
> Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> 
> Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> Illegal instruction
> 
> I checked out the file but have no idea what to change or if I should
> even change anything. Anyone have any Ideas?

This is a known bug; the binary will only run on Pentium 4 systems.  A fix
is being prepared.

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 - mdz