[mythtv-users] Best Epia choice?

Brett Kosinski fancypantalons at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 21:10:53 UTC 2006


On 12/14/06, Brett Kosinski <fancypantalons at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Well, I have an EN12000EG which is fanless and contains a VT1625, and
> > > while you are correct that the chipset isn't fully supported, it
> > > certainly works on my TV.  The only major trick is that you have to
> > tell
> > > the via driver to use the VESA BIOS for setting the video modes.
> > > This'll get you a working 640x480 NTSC configuration.  The picture
> > > doesn't perfectly fill the screen (there doesn't appear to be any
> > > overscan), but it does the job for me, anyway.
> >
> > Hmmm. Sounds usable! Is there a similar PAL mode availabla via VESA?
>
>
> There's definitely a 720x576 video mode listed in my Xorg logs, so I think
> the answer is 'yes', but you might want to check the OpenChrome mailing list
> (and possibly the VIA boards) just to make sure.
>

And in reply to myself, it occurs to me that I haven't yet gotten a 720x480
mode working, so you'll definitely want to search the mailing lists to see
if PAL works.

Brett.
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