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unsolo · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 155 Location: OSLO Norway

WARNING
Your X can crash from this

first isntall latest spu-medialib following the link below

http://wiki.ps2dev.org/ps3:spu-medialib:install

then compile and install the driver as follows

Warren · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173 Location: San Diego, CA

unsolo · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 155 Location: OSLO Norway

clearer now ?
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TimeZlicer · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

Hi,

I have encountered a libspe2 not found problem while doing ./configure and was resolved by adding
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libspe2.pc

with the following contents

prefix=$(prefix)
exec_prefix=$(exec_prefix)
libdir=$(libdir)
includedir=$(includedir)

Name: libspe2
Description: A wrapper library to adapt the JSRE SPU usage model to SPUFS
Version: 2.2.0
Requires:
Conflicts:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lrt -lpthread
Cflags: -I\${includedir}

TimeZlicer · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

prefix=$(prefix)
exec_prefix=$(exec_prefix)
libdir=$(libdir)
includedir=$(includedir)

Name: libspe2
Description: A wrapper library to adapt the JSRE SPU usage model to SPUFS
Version: 2.2.0
Requires:
Conflicts:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lrt -lpthread
Cflags: -I${includedir}

unsolo · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 155 Location: OSLO Norway

what linux distribution is this ?
It doesn't reg libspe2.2 properly it seems

TimeZlicer · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

fedora 7 on PS3

i installed from the RPM listed at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20071023-ADDON/doc/ApplicationProgrammingEnvironment.html

BTW I tried, and compiled successfully but X crashes when running mplayer.

Will post the error.log tonight.

unsolo · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 155 Location: OSLO Norway

Here's a few tips.

I think its a 32 bit issue as i have heard of the same problem elsewhere.
try perhaps masking the devPrivate.ptr in Put Image in spu_video.c
somehow. it might help.

btw also make shure you are playing back something thats 624x352 and 1280x720 or similar just to se if its a format crash issue due to bad handling of alignement requirements inside the spu_video.c

cheers
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TimeZlicer · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

sorry, my programming is rusty...

I found this line, what am I suppose to do with devPrivate.ptr?

pPriv->Opointer[pPriv->currentBuffer]=mypixmap->devPrivate.ptr;

Thanks in advance!!!

unsolo · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 155 Location: OSLO Norway

Ocelot · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 11

i have tried to install the driver in ubuntu but when i type:
autoreconf -if && ./configure --prefix /usr && make && make install
in terminal it says that libspe2 is missing but a already installed it(libspe2)2 days ago.then i searched on google.de and found out that this problem was discovered a few weeks ago.unfortuantly no one replied and so i haven´t found a solution yet.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg565025.html
it seems that ubuntu doesn´t recognise libspe2. :(

Ocelot · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 11

well never mind i have found a solution on this site.damn i should read careful.

geodesico · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Hi all! Need Help!!

I have a problem building the spu-medialib at the point ->>

[root@ps3-linux spu]# ./configure
checking for spu-elf-gcc... spu-elf-gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether spu-elf-gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for spu-elf-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking build system type... powerpc64-redhat-linux-gnu
checking host system type... Invalid configuration `spu-elf': machine `spu' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./../config.sub spu-elf failed

I'm Using PS3 2.10FW with YDL 5.0.2 with the Oficial CELL SDK from IBM nor the Toolchain from ps2dev... is this too relevant?

Thanks you Guys! Good Job There!!

Saludos desde La República de España!!

xat · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

Log:

xat · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

Er, right. That's in conjunction with the settings in the original post. Only difference is this is a 32-bit env I'd assume? Also X does crash (not just mplayer).

unsolo · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 155 Location: OSLO Norway

Feel free to commit .. my work priorities are elsewhere at the moment.. but i do plan to make this work some day..
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Nismobeach · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 9

Unsolo, I've finally had a chance to install this on my Xubuntu 7.10 box, and with the exception of one lock-up under VLC, everything seems to works pretty good.

I'm going to do my best to promote this on the psubuntu forums to hopefully get some additional development help for this project.

:)

eric9 · Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 2

Well, last week I took the plunge and installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my PS3. I also built the toolchain, xf86-video-spu, and mplayer-vo from svn.

First I'd like to say: awesome job unsolo and other devs. I am totally blown away by the spu libraries and drivers you've built.

VLC (and mplayer -vo xv -fs) plays regular def media pretty well. I'm having a problem getting mplayer -vo ps3 -fs (from svn) to display anything, but when I use the mplayer-ps3 binary (mplayer-ps3 -vo ps3 -fs) from here: http://linux.yes.nu/PS3Ubuntu/ it works.

These packages are on their way to making my ps3 a full time replacement for my modded XBOX with XBMC (my previous preferred media player). And since its linux based, I can use my NFS server instead of SAMBA for fileshares, which is definitely good.

Anyways, I'd love to help. How do I get started contributing/where would be a good place to look?

eric9

PS thanks again devs for all your hard work, it is fantastic.

Ocelot · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 11

No progress?

eric9 · Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 2

Ocelot:
Sounds like a problem I had.

First of all, do you have both libspe2 and libspe2-dev installed?

Ocelot · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 11

ghost_zero · Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 1

Hi,

I just would like to know if there is any news regarding updates for this driver?
Especially, I think someone should update the trunk to finally remove the "_" from the driver name because newer distribution versions aren't supporting the "_" in the driver name.

Also: I just got it to install on Ubuntu 8.10 (I also installed the newest spu-medialib) and it works BUT it doesn't get way faster on playing back 720p .mkv H.264 files. Probably because spu-medialib isn't yet supporting H.264 decoding and the few things that are already supported are probably not enough for this type of playback.
Also: Once spu-medialib supports this feature will the driver support it automatically or will there at least be an update to it?
(Regarding this I have a side-question:
How far is that feature?
I guess you don't have an approximate release date for it yet).

Also it is extremely unstable then, e.g. if I use VLC it is nearly instantly locking up the whole system (though I didn't do anything, even started the player maximized already) and with Totem it works but once I e.g. move the mouse the X-Server reboots.

GT-Schorsch · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 1

Hello there,

I just installed the spu-accelerated Xv driver under Debian lenny using the Debian packages from http://people.debian.org/~seanius/ps3-experimental-packages. I got it working, well basically. I get wrong colors!

I'm using VDR and xineliboutput and thus the Xv driver for the video output. In some cases the OSD is green where it should be blue. Also, a greyscaled still image is shown in bright yellow (instead of white) and black. Things that should be green are green and things that should be yellow are yellow! Usually this OSD is done by a so called DVB full-featured card, but by using xineliboutput it is implemented in software also.

My xorg.conf looks like this:

MaLDiTo_TeXuGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 7

I gotta a problem compiling xf86-video-spu:
I downloaded from here:
svn co https://spu-medialib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/spu-medialib spu-medialib

I enter the directory:
cd spu-medialib/trunk/xf86-video-spu
sudo autoreconf -if
sudo ./configure --prefix /usr

Then I got the error:
./configure: line 11878: syntax error near unexpected token `RANDR,'
./configure: line 11878: `XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT(RANDR, randrproto)'

Any ideas? Do I have to install a toolchain or somethin?

BTW, I installed the speutils and spu-medialib and run the tile_effects example, sweet!
Unsolo, you r a genious!

MaLDiTo_TeXuGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 7

My bad,
I google one more time and find that you have to install X Development modules.
On Ubuntu type:
apt-get install xorg-dev

Now I will modify xorg.conf and try.
Cross fingers!!!

MaLDiTo_TeXuGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 7

Im stuck again,
I was trying to compile:
sudo make
But the following appears:
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/xonda/Desktop/xf86-video-spu/spu-medialib/trunk/xf86-video-spu'
Making all in man
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/xonda/Desktop/xf86-video-spu/spu-medialib/trunk/xf86-video-spu/man'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/xonda/Desktop/xf86-video-spu/spu-medialib/trunk/xf86-video-spu/man'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/xonda/Desktop/xf86-video-spu/spu-medialib/trunk/xf86-video-spu/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -g -O2 -module -avoid-version -o spu_fbdev_drv.la -rpath /usr/lib/lib/xorg/modules/drivers spu_fbdev.lo spu_video.lo -lspu-medialib -lspe2 -lrt -lpthread
/bin/grep: /usr/local/lib/libtiles.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/local/lib/libtiles.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libtiles.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[2]: *** [spu_fbdev_drv.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/xonda/Desktop/xf86-video-spu/spu-medialib/trunk/xf86-video-spu/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/xonda/Desktop/xf86-video-spu/spu-medialib/trunk/xf86-video-spu'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Its searching for libtiles.la on /usr/local/lib, but it is in /usr/lib.
I dont know whatelse to do.
Does anyone know how can I compile and install the xf86-video-spu?

MaLDiTo_TeXuGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 7

Well,
I compiled the xf86-video-spu, make && make install but...
When I try to init X environment, I get this:

(II) LoadModule: "spufbdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//spufbdev_drv.so
(EE) LoadModule: Module spufbdev does not have a spufbdevModuleData data object.
(II) UnloadModule: "spufbdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//spufbdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "spufbdev" (invalid module, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Any ideas?