[mythtv-users] What distro to use with Epia M 9000 + Hauppage PVR-250

Jelle Kalf jelle at kalf.org
Wed Dec 31 05:16:44 EST 2003


Hi Jayson,

Most of the gentoo stuff has already been documented, but indeed the wiki that contained the documents is down, perhaps take a look at my howto and see how far you can go with that. I also have all the ebuilds the wiki had and some more ebuilds for Xfree-epia, libddmpeg and mythtv (don't forget to set USE="via" for mythtv)

further more:

C3 / C3-2 CFLAGS don't work indeed. Seen the via Nehemiah chip is i686 compatible, it isn't like "being stuck" with it. It just works :)

building from stage1 is noble and can teach you a bit about how gentoo is built, but building from a i686 stage3 tarball will save you about 7 hours of compiling. You'll won't get any performance boost out of it starting from stage1.

I'd suggest you try the new xfree-epia-4.3.99.902-r1.ebuild . Yesterday Totte released a new Via patch that will save you about 10% on video playback.


Jelle.

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> I started from a stage1 tarball but I am sure a stage3 would be just the
> same. I could never get the c3 or c3-2 CFLAGS to work so I stuck with
> i686 and everything has been compiling and running ok. The only thing I
> did different from a standard Gentoo install was to use the very latest
> xfree86 ebuild, located in /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/. I'm running the
> ~x86 flag but there was a newer version in the portage directory that
> did show when I did an 'emerge xfree'. I'm running the 2.4.23 kernel
> w/bk11 & epia1 patches. 
> 
> The entire install was done on a tv and never connected to a moniter, tv
> out worked out of the box.
> 
> Jayson Garrell



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