[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA Illegal Instruction

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 13 June 2003 02:06 pm, Justin Mayfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run mythfrontend and possibly all the backend code on a
> VIA EPIA board (based on a 800Mhz C3);  The problem is, the arch seems
> to be half 686 and half something less, so I'm getting Illegal
> Instruction errors when trying to execute mythfrontend and some of the
> other apps.  I even compiled the whole suite on the system, so I would
> assume it would correctly identify the system capabilities, but I guess
> not.
>
> My guess is that it is trying to do some sse or mmx2 or sse2
> instructiions somewhere, and I know I could put a debugger on it, and
> figure it out, but I'm guessing someone already knows the quick and easy
> flags I need to change in the build system to get around this.
>
> Any help is appreciated, and if not, I'll send out a message letting
> people know how I got around it.

Or you could just read the docs:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-18.html#ss18.1

Isaac