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diff --git a/doc/README.solaris b/doc/README.solaris index b177bc3f9..e49d1401a 100644 --- a/doc/README.solaris +++ b/doc/README.solaris @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ building xine on solaris referenced symbol not found" error when running xine, re-configure xine-lib with gcc as the linker command (env LD=gcc configure ...) -* To get VIS accelerated MPEG decoding and colour space conversion - on Solaris SPARC, download and install Sun's mediaLib 2.0, available - here: +* To get VIS accelerated video decoding and colour space conversion + on Solaris SPARC with an UltraSPARC cpu, download and install Sun's + mediaLib 2.0, available here: http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html @@ -20,11 +20,24 @@ Known Problems * Can't use MIT shared memory for local video display The default value for the maximum allowed shared memory segment size - (1MByte) is very small on solaris. You may want to increase the - max. allowed shared memory segment size. Add the following line to - /etc/system to increase the shmmax parameter to 8MBytes: + (1MByte) and the number of allowed shared memory segments (6) + is very small on solaris. You may want to increase both parameters. + Add the following lines to /etc/system to increase the shmmax parameter + to 8MBytes and the shmseg parameter to 32: set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=8388608 + set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=32 Reboot the machine after modifying /etc/system to activate the new - default. + shared memory defaults. + +* No Video, or video stops after a few frames + + If you're on Solaris 8, try to use XINE with the "alternate libthread + implementation". The alternate thread implementation can be selected + at runtime by adding /usr/lib/lwp into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment + variable: + + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/lwp + + See also the threads(3THR) man page, "ALTERNATE IMPLEMENTATION" |