[vorbis] installation on 486

[John Morton]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:39, Haas Wernfried wrote:
> hello,
> i was just trying to install the ogg package on my old 486 (~70 mhz iirc)
> machine, but was not able to compile the libvorbis-package because
> of: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6

Go google the error message. I think it's a known one that indicated some sort
of hardware fault, but it's been a while since I've seen one.

> i think that this is not really a problem of vorbis, but of my old
> gcc-version (2.7.2.3). however, before upgrading gcc (and who knows, what
> else needs to be upgraded, too) i would like to ask if you think that it
> might be possible to play .ogg files on this machine. it's possible to play
> mp3 with mpg123 in mono (i think the soundcard doesn't even support stereo)
> and 8-bit mode (at least i think so) with a load between 0.7 and 0.9.

ogg123 isn't as well optimised as mpg123, so I doubt you'll get it to play 
realtime, but good luck trying.

John
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