[PlanetCCRMA] no supported simd instruction sets

[jonathan segel]

On May 1, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 17:47 -0700, Jonathan Segel wrote:
>> On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 16:42 -0700, jonathan wrote:
>>>> i was having  a problem with freqtweak, but now i'm realizing that
>>>> the
>>>> problem is much bigger.
>>>> this is in fc6, on a pentium III sharp laptop, i've been bouncing
>>>> installs back and forth between the two large drive partitions,
>>>> presently one is fc6 and one is fc5.
>>>> fc5 is fine.
>>>> booting jack in fc6, i get the "No supported SIMD instruction sets
>>>> detected" in the message box of qjackctl.
>>>
>>> Could you copy the output of "jackd -d alsa -d hw" into an email?  
>>> (and
>>> "rpm -q -i jack-audio-connection-kit"?) This is probably related to
>>> another bug/feature someone else found when trying to use a Duron
>>> processor. When there's no SIMD instructions it should just use the
>>> normal copy/add functions.
>>
>> hmm. it isn't finding hardware now, only the modem is listed in the
>> qjackctl  hardware availability...
>
> Yes, there's something else wrong in your setup. I exhumed a very old
> machine from our hardware graveyard (PIII based) and went through the
> "install fc6 and jack" there. It is apparently working fine.
>
> The "No supported SIMD instruction sets detected" is normal, it means
> the CPU does not have sse2, 3dnow, etc and jack cannot use the vector
> based assembler speedup routines for copying or adding buffers  
> together.
> But it does work normally after that, at least in my machine.
>
> -- Fernando

i see. doing a little research i discovered sort of the same things,  
reading about people doing video stuff with pIII machines.
well, what's weird is that supercollider is saying the same thing  
when i try to boot a server, it shows up for a second in qjackctl  
then dies.
if i boot in a regular non-rt non-planet kernel, my regular hardware  
shows up at least, the intel 810 set. same problem with SC though.

anyway. is there a relatively easy way (command wise) to reinstall  
the entire fc6 and keep my home directory? or reinstall the entire  
thing and not keep /home and then just copy what i need from  
elsewhere...?
or wait to do that with fc7...?
or get a new machine one of these days?

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