Hi guys, I've been running 0.16 on a test system (Celery system running Slackware 10 with a PVR-250 as input and software decompression on output). Graphics were on a Viper 770 that I had laying around. I'm ready to move this setup to an EPIA M10000 and need some background.
It looks like this version of slack runs X.org's X server versus Xfree's. I'm completely new to X.org... who are they, what's different, what's the (brief) story here? I see a lot of mention of XvMC and I see what it stands for, but I don't understand where it fits into the picture. After googling a lot, I'm confused by all of the different EPIA development. I guess Via is doing some and others are doing their own stuff. Thus far, I'm using the ALSA snd_via82xx module that came with slackware, and I downloaded and compiled the "viafb" module from ViaArena (package CLE266FBDv0.82-lite_20030819). The modules seem to load okay, but I haven't figured out why I get no sound output (checked channels with alsamixer). I edited my existing xorg.conf file and changed the "nv" driver under the Device section to "via". KDE come up okay, so I guess the viafb driver is happy. But when I start up mythbackend and mythfrontend, I get a blank screen and then the console locks up. I can still telnet into the machine, and I see that mythfrontend repeatedly compains "Timed out waiting for free video buffers." Why? Should I dump the viafb driver and use the one from the Unichrome project? Should I use the plain X support, XvMC, or DRI? Which buys me hardware MPEG-2 decompression? Eric
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