--On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 13:20:15 +0000 Dave Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 10000 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350.
i have a friends epia-m computer standing right next to my laptop and he waits for me to finish it freevo-wise. i'm having quite some trouble with it since i insisted on using debian as distribution. currently there are two (or maybe three) possibilities to make freevo get something on the tv-out.
1) directfb 2) plain framebuffer? 3) xfree+sdl+mplayer -vo xv
my trouble is that using the -epia kernel (btw. epia linux howto: http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/epia/epia_howto/t1.html and the linux area at the www.viaarena.com forum are the two best resources i know) the viafb frambuffer module segfaults when i try the TVOn=1 argument. the directfb team is developing their own fork from the viafb module. i tried the viafb module from the directfb project along with a recent cvs checkout of directfb and this viafb module segfaults even without any argument. so directfb/framebuffer solution is probably not quite ready for primetime. plain framebuffer suffers under the same segfault problem. directfb needs viafb in order to work. i couldn't :(
the xfree solution basically "should" work. however, i have the problem that xfree works nicely even with overscan tv-out etc., but the XV video output just doesn't work. i get some strange white bars and some flickering pixels and thats it. -vo x11 -fs -zoom works, but i find it silly not to use hardware acceleration on such a small machine. maybe somebody has a hint for me on how to get xv work.
btw. if you want to save some work you might want to use google and find "freepia". it's a linux distribution for epia and freevo based on red-hat. it could spare you a whole lot of work. i didn't bother, because i don't like redhat.
whatever article you plan to write. there are already plenty of resources for epia-m and linux. you might want to consider whether it makes sense to spend time on work already done. the problem is not missing articles, but quality drivers/kernel modules that make all sorts of trouble.
however, if you plan to use the pvr350 anyway, it might be possible for you to use the pvr350 tv-out. i'm not sure whether this works already. then everything should be more or less straightforward...
-- Benjamin Zeiss
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