[snowmusicman]

Hello,

I'm trying to setup this old iMac as an mp3 box for my parents using XBMC. It's an iMac 350MHz, 1 GB Ram. These are the specs:

Nombre del equipo: iMac
Modelo de ordenador: PowerMac2,1
Tipo de CPU: PowerPC 750 (2.2)
Unidades de CPU: 1
Velocidad de la CPU: 350 MHz
Caché de nivel 2 (por CPU): 512 KB
Memoria: 1 GB
Velocidad del bus: 100 MHz
Versión de la ROM de arranque: 4.1.9f1

It's running 10.4.11

I tried installing the Dharma image "xbmc-10.1-ppc.dmg" and the Eden image "xbmc-11.0-Eden_beta1-ppc.dmg" and get with both the same error: incompatible cpu-subtype

I tried to fix this doing all what was said in this thread but nothing worked. Here is the xbmc crash log:

http://pastebin.com/TfaXrWTS

I hope somebody can help, it would be nice to give use to this old but beautiful machine (I'm writing from it right now).

Guido.

[garyi]

Your mac is from the dark ages, forget it.

[davilla]

I think our minimum is a G4.

[snowmusicman]

Thanks for taking the time to answer. I know it's a very old machine, no question about that! I just thought after reading the link I linked to that it would be possible to use this machine as a remote controlled mp3 player, especially after reading Aphid's post:

"Working Now
Thanks for that.

On my 500MHz G3 with 384MB Ram I can get the pictures and music working fine.

As for the movies, a faster Mac is needed."

I guess the requirements have stepped up since xbmc9. I'll try that old version to see what happens, if it doesn't work I'll have to get my hands dirty and use MintPPC, somebody in the ubuntu forums has also tried to repurpose a similar machine here.

I could buy a new machine, plug and play, but where is the fun/challenge there?
Thanks anyway for still supporting PPC!

Guido.

[darkscout]

Just go with the straight Debian and compile from source.

[Beenje]

lipo -info XBMC
Non-fat file: XBMC is architecture: ppc7400

-> ppc7400 means G4 and better...
By building for 10.4, it should be possible to generate code that works on G3. I will try to check why it doesn't work.

[Beenje]

We have a few libs compiled with altivec support (libsquish, ffmpeg) and thus that are for G4 and better only.
So sorry, no G3 support.

[darkscout]

Compiled from source in Linux, would they work?

[Beenje]

Compiled from source in Linux, would they work?

Compiling on a G3 (linux or OSX)? Maybe.
I don't know if the altivec support would raise an error or if it would just be ignored.