> My problem is that I'm having a CPU related problem with mplayer. I
> recently swapped out my Athlon XP 1600 CPU for an Athlon XP 2000. Once
> I did that mplayer quit working. It was crashing immediately with an
> "Illegal instruction" message. Further fiddling with command line
> arguments got mplayer to give me some hints about being compiled with
> one CPU but run with another, and the like.
>
> Further debugging has found that if I comment out the unset command and
> change the CFLAGS variable in make.conf to march=athlon, instead of
> march=athlon-xp, and re-compile mplayer, mplayer will then run correctly
> on this machine (but not with the best optimizations of course). For
> some reason I can not find anything else that doesn't work just fine
> with athlon-xp compiler optimizations.
>
> I have not had time to replace the XP 1600 and recompile mplayer to see
> if it auto-detects that CPU as an athlon xp or an athlon-4 or an ?
>
> hoping someone will point out what I've missed so that I don't have to
> open up the box and start messing with hardware.
Try editing /proc/cpuinfo. There are all the information you need for CFLAGS
(line starting with "flags :"). Compare CFLAGS and those flags and ... good
luck. :o)
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