Hi!

Frist of all: thx for your replies concerning edworthy's server and the mirror
I have made it this weekend to get R4V5 working with my Epia M10000.
As the kernel-debs weren't avaiable I started the adventure to bake my own kernel and surprisely it worked fine.
I've read at viaarena these days that there seems to be a new revision of the CLE266 in the newest Epia Ms, so I had some trouble with the tutorial (via.o freezes system, with via.o from unichrome-project it worked) but I managed to solve all problems.
Everything is running fine now, exept for CLE266 support of MythTV build - but nevertheless I get smooth pictures while watching live TV, mpeg4, DVD and so on.
CLE266 support build in MythTV seems to be a bit difficult - got segfaults in libddmepg.so when trying it...

If someone is interested I will make a tutorial of what I did to make it running on the new revision of the Epia boards.

So long thx guys for your help and the good tutorial!!
sakya

I thought they removed the mpeg2 support for epia in mythtv 0.16, and went to using the xvmc support from the unigraphics driver.

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Xsecrets

Hi Sakya!

Yes, I would be very interested in your tutorial/cookbook.
I too have an EPIA M10000 with PVR250. What revision of the board do you have?

Bert

Well, I'll try to begin it this weekend, think I'll put it on KnoppMythWiki (post a link when done).
Revision: well, I actually don't know exactly, but it must be a quite new one, cause it had BIOS of 14/10/04 . But I think exact revision isn't as important, newer video driver should also work on older boards.

So long,
sakya

Cool! Looking forward to it!
That BIOS is indeed very new. It's the latest date I am aware of.

Bert

Sadly nothing so sensible, they broke mpeg2 support in 0.16 and put in xvmc with Via extension support the week after the release, so to use it requires a cvs version.

The xvmc extensions are better in many ways, the only hardware interaction takes place in the kernel module. So no need to run myth as root anymore.

It is supported in the latest mplayer and xine releases, although only gives mpeg2 accell as far as I can tell.

The downside is it needs a really new, i.e. cvs only, version of the via kernel driver and a new X server module and xvmc library. I also ended up going to the X.org xserver at the same time as that was what it was built against, but it may work with the current X server.



I think we are all intrested, especially if it is simpler than the long list of steps involved in how I did it.

Also you say that DVD playback is smooth with no accell, what player are you using?

thanks,
Pete

Hi folks!

First of all: sorry, I haven't made it yet to post the tutorial, days are too busy with work a.t.m., so it can last a few more days 'till I find time to grab all informations what I had done *g* and post it into Wiki.

@pete-edworthy: well, I actually use a 'normal' .deb-install of mplayer-1.0pre5. It uses the '-vo xv' option, so maybe there's "a bit of" acceleration by the Via X11 driver, although it doesn't have any Epia patch in it. All I can say is that it plays MPEG2 and MPEG4 (DivX and XVid) smooth at about 20-60% CPU usage.

Bye
sakya

I did all of the above and the via82cxxx is indeed in /etc/modules
Still, it seems it is not loaded at boot time. I CAN load it later on manually with an insmod command and then I can turn DMA on.
Could this mean that the entire /etc/modules is not processed? Anyone has a clue as to what might cause the via82cxxx module to be not loaded and/or the /etc/modules to be skipped?

Bert

well two suggestions first look at dmesg and see if there were any errors during load that may have kept it from being loaded at that time. Second put it at the top of the /etc/modules file and see what happens. To answer your other question no I have never heard of /etc/modules not getting run, but I guess there is a first time for everything.

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Xsecrets

I had this same problem. There were no errors in dmesg. As a workaround, I just added 'insmod via82cxxx' to the top of /etc/init.d/hd_dma.

I am having a problem with the very early stages of this, everything was going fine until this



Which gives me the error:



Any ideas duders?

Have you looked to see if the file it's complaining about exists?

Yes, it does not exist - I made a decision to go with what I thought it should be and ended up executing this:



I have since moved on and nothing has broken yet, only thing not working is the news and weather, but I imagine this is totally unrelated although I am concerned why the frontend is not able to retrieve this info and yet I can ping successfully from bash.

Any ideas what to do in the how-to if you are running R4V5 on a Via MII12000 and come to this bit:



Also want to add a big thanks to the author of the howto - I have completed most of it and already it has fixed my sound problems.

A another big thanks to the mythtv and knoppmyth people, I appreciate the time and effort that has gone into this cool project.

Finally - bump for this:

hello all,



i tried this for at least two hours, all i get is "connection timed out" for all three sources, ftp.de.debian.org, "deb http://www.pcxperience.org/apt/debian unstable/" and "deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main" (used instead of "deb http://marillat.free.fr unstable mainl", apparently this server does not exist anymore).

can anybody help, i'm not that good in linux....what should i do instad? or can i just leave this and not install libglut3??

grettings, holzauto