I have a recently acquired M9000 epia box. I want to make a gentoo mythtv box. I have set up myth before, but not on an epia box.
This machine has a Ezra C3 processor and castlerock graphics (lspci and /proc/cpuinfo below). This page http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags tells me I should use CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i586 -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" The gentoo install instructions also tell me that if I do a stage three install I cannot change CHOST, so am I right in saying that I have a choice of either doing a stage 1 install and getting i586 from scratch, or else I do an i386 stage 2 or 3 and then I am stuck with i386? And anyway what is the practical difference between i386 and i586 in terms of performance? I haven't done a stage one install before, but I will if there is going to be an appreciable difference in performance. Secondly, I am aware of this Howto http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaHowto However I am not sure how up to date it is, and seek advice as to whether there is anything more up to date, particularly as I am aware of VIA recently opening at least some of their sources. Naturally I am keen to get hardware mpeg-2 decoding working, as well as tv-out. I intend to get a hauppauge pvr-250 or maybe a pvr-150 card for the tuner, these cards have hardware mpeg-2 encoding, and with the onboard mpeg-2 decoding I should be able to squeeze suffcient performance out of it to do some basic hard disk recording, as well as play dvd's. Any comments or hints are appreciated. livecd root # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03 livecd root # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : VIA C3 Ezra stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 933.098 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1839.10 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
