[mythtv-users] 0.18 (gentoo/nvidia) blue video preview

[Simon Kenyon]

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 22:31, Louie Ilievski wrote:
> > Broken ebuild which disables the mmx opts.
> >
> > Isaac
>
> I wouldn't say the ebuild is broken.  They don't just throw flags in there
> for no reason.  Although I will say that I don't think they should have
> disabled MMX for everyone.  They should've handled the specific case where
> it causes problems.
>
> If MMX is required for things to work properly, why is it even offered as
> an option?

this ebuild (IMHO) was just tweaked to support 18
it does not do things right
disabling mmx was put in to fix bugs in much older versions of myth

i have been running (using my own cvs ebuilds) for a long time now without 
them (on Athlon, C3 and Pentium 4M)
--
simon