Hi folks, I ran across this project like two days ago when it was presented on a German TV show that cooperates with the well-known German computer magazine c't. (That means that you're famous. )

I downloaded and installed KnoppMyth the very same evening right after I came home. And I was almost knocked off my feet. This ever so exotic hardware setup I've got was all recognized from the very start: MPEG-2 acceleration (checked that on two DVDs, Chicken Run and Band of Brothers) and my DVB-T card.

The system is a VIA EPIA-M10000 (Nehemiah core; CLE266) chipset. I decided to buy this because I heard that the MPEG-2 acceleration built into the chipset was supported under Linux (didn't get it to run myself, though ).

The DVB-T card is a Terratec Cinergy T2 - an external USB thing roughly at the size of a credit card the height of a thumb. The T2 is supported by the kernel since 2.6.12.

I installed KnoppMyth and ran across two things so far that don't run quite fine yet, I hope you can help me:

1. Black and white X display: The EPIA board is connected to a TV via the Composite output. The BIOS menu is colored, the boot splash screen of KnoppMyth is in color, but as soon as the X server is running, it's all black and white. On shutdown, the splash screen is in color again.

I read about the settings one should make in the XF86Config-4 file and tried them, but they did not seem to work in my case. Any ideas?

2. Remote control of my DVB-T card not fully functionable: I was surprised in a positive way that the remote control of my DVB-T card seems to work under KnoppMyth out-of-the-box. At least, the up / down keys work - the OK key apparently doesn't. It's possible to select chapters during DVD playback via the number keys - but the playback control keys (Play, Pause, Stop, FF, Rew) seem to be dead during DVD playback. Neither do the volume control keys.

From what I read somewhere on the net, the remote control is the same as with the Terratec Cinergy 1400. Maybe someone could give me a hint?

Ah, and something I also ran across with: if the Cinergy T2 is connected during kernel start-up when the 686 modules are selected for KnoppMyth, the kernel freezes with a panic. I couldn't track the error message exactly, but it apparently has to do with the init of the USB system. At some point, it just stops. The workaround is using the 586 modules.

Apart from these hopefully minor issues, this is a great piece of software and I love it already. I'm sure if my hardware weren't so exotic, anything would be running fine already. Great work, guys, really!

1) how do you have it hooked to the tv? svid composite and are you using a svid/composite converter of any sort? many times if you are using a converter you will get b/w and you have to tell the video card you are using composite even though the converter is plugged into an svid port. Not sure how to do this on the via drivers, you'll just have to search for that one.

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Okay, there's something that I've worked out by now: apparently, the VIA driver included in 5A26 does not use the default options TVOutputFormat etc, those are other strings with other values, it seems. Once I got it all up and running, I'm gonna add this to the wiki.