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diff --git a/doc/README.solaris b/doc/README.solaris deleted file mode 100644 index 3e094af04..000000000 --- a/doc/README.solaris +++ /dev/null @@ -1,78 +0,0 @@ -building xine on solaris ------------------------- - -* Compile xine with GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/bin/gmake) - -* On Solaris x86: The xine code tries to use MMX/SSE/3DNOW! instructions - of x86 CPUs, which may not assemble using Solaris' /usr/ccs/bin/as. - Make sure to use the GNU assembler as the assembler backend for the - GNU C compiler and as a standalone assembler command - (env AS=gas configure ...). - -* If you get a "fatal: relocation error" ... "symbol __divdi3: - 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 video decoding and colour space conversion - on Solaris SPARC with an UltraSPARC cpu, download and install Sun's - mediaLib 2.0 before compiling xine. mediaLib is available here: - - http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html - - -Known Problems --------------- - -* Can't use MIT shared memory for local video display - - The default value for the maximum allowed shared memory segment size - (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 - shared memory defaults. - - -* When using an 8-bit display, xine aborts with the error message: - - IMLIB ERROR: Cannot Find Palette. A Palette is required for this mode - Unable to initialize Imlib - - xine expects an installed Imlib package, installed using the "prefix" / - xine is looking for the global Imlib config file in /etc/imrc. - - If you have the solaris 8 companion CD installed, an Imlib package is - already installed on your system, but it uses the "prefix" /opt/sfw. - - To work around the problem: - - - install a symbolic link /etc/imrc, pointing to /opt/sfw/etc/imrc - (needs root permission) - - # ln -s /opt/sfw/etc/imrc /etc - - or - - - install an ".imrc" file in your home directory, - with the following contents: - - PaletteFile /opt/sfw/etc/im_palette.pal - - -* On Solaris x86, you cannot reliably play DVDs using a capacity >4GB: - - The sd(7D) driver on solaris x86 has a bug when accessing a disk - block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. - CDROM and DVD media). Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk address - modulo 4GB is accessed. - - There's no workaround available. - - See the following message for more details about this bug: - - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516 |