[mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance

[and]

I'm running rh9 -2.4.20-20_23.1.rh9.at on my m10k, with default X 
installation and the VIA drivers.

The drivers complain about a few symbols or functions when I try to 
load them, as they are compiled for the unmodified stock 2.4.20-8 
redhat source.

I have the corruption using both kernels and I tried xfree86-4.3.99-11 
a while ago and couldn't get them to work either...

rgds
anders


On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 01:26 AM, rwk at americom.com wrote:

> Hmmm...  Maybe I should wait for your success.
>
> Are you running:
>
> . EPIA-M10000 Nehemiah
> . RH9 (kernel 2.4.21)
> . On-board TV-out
> . New RH9 via drivers (i.e. ./CLEXF40030/RedHat/9.0/c3/libddmpeg.so 
> from file: CLEXF40030-bin.zip)
>
> Does anyone else have this working?
>
> Dick
>
>> Maybe I have the same GUI problem. Since upgrading to those newer VIA
>> display drivers the mythfrontend gui messes up completely any time it
>> tries to display a tree. The gui basically becomes unusable afterwards
>> because now none of the screens will paint correctly.
>>
>> I'm still thinking about what would be the best way to try and solve
>> this. Getting the latest version of X from CVS for example.
>>
>> -Tako
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of and
>>> Sent: woensdag 3 september 2003 6:17
>>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance
>>>
>>>
>>> I now have myth more or less working and the first report was vastly
>>> optimistic.
>>> Mplayer still looks great with full size and stream, but the video in
>>> myth has to be much smaller *480x480) for my m10k to handle it!!
>>>
>>> My screen graphics is also completely screwed up. Screens
>>> don't redraw
>>> and some graphics don't show up or move when a button is
>>> pressed...etc.
>>> Might be the video driver, but it's pretty wiesrd and I have no idea
>>> how to fix it. I'm going to try to switch to another video drivers
>>> (vesa generic), but if some one have a suggestions or recommendation
>>> for my rh9-epiam10k system I'd greatly appreciate it.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> anders
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry about the confusion.
>>> On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 09:02 AM, and wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't fully installed mythtv 0.11 yet (using atrms from
>>> berlin and
>>>> I can't get the lirc to install/compile), but tried it out with
>>>> mplayer and there was absolutely smooth video.
>>>>
>>>> I also originally tried on debian with the regular cvs xfree86-4.3
>>>> drivers and had to settle for the via (with lots of mpeg and other
>>>> undeclared and other errors) and had to settle for lower rez and
>>>> birate, but even then I had bad sound unless I timeshifted
>>> the content
>>>> a little...The xfree drivers are still a little buggy
>>> acording to vias
>>>> opensource reprasentative and only provides 2d accl with
>>> out the mpeg
>>>> stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Too bad  the binary drivers are not available for debian.
>>> I'm having a
>>>> hard time adjusting to redhat world... ;-)
>>>>
>>>> rgds
>>>> anedrs
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 02:34 AM, Tako Schotanus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You got 16m/8m at 720x480 running with Myth Live TV?
>>>>> That would be seriously cool because I'm currently using something
>>>>> like
>>>>> 5m/4m at 460x576 to get stutter free video.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I'm not using those binary drivers you mention but the drivers
>>>>> that
>>>>> came with the CVS version of XFree86 some months ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you have to do anything special to get those drivers to work?
>>>>> (Recompile X like I had to do for example) The reason I ask is that
>>>>> previous binary drivers I had encountered all seemed to use
>>>>> functionality/API from X that was not included in the
>>> standard RedHat
>>>>> 9
>>>>> version.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>  -Tako
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>>>>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of and
>>>>>> Sent: vrijdag 29 augustus 2003 9:12
>>>>>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you using redhat 9?
>>>>>> If you are, there are binary video and accl mpeg drivers
>>> available at
>>>>>> viaarena.com that really helps. I've been playing around with
>>>>>> it today
>>>>>> and even with the 16m/8m stream at 720x480 from my pvr250 I
>>>>>> didn't see
>>>>>> any problems.
>>>>>> I used to be running debian where there are no binary drivers
>>>>>> avaliable
>>>>>> for the cle266 and could therefore not take advantage of
>>> the hardware
>>>>>> accl....at least that is what I think is making the big
>>> difference on
>>>>>> my m10k.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> anders
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:21 PM, rwk at americom.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just to see if I could tell the difference, I set my record
>>>>>> resolution
>>>>>>> from 480x480 to 720x480.  However, when I started watching I was
>>>>>>> surprised to find that my 1Gh Nehemiah EPIA processor
>>>>>> couldn't handle
>>>>>>> it.  It sputtered every few seconds.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I ran a top from another machine and indeed observed that
>>>>>> mythfrontend
>>>>>>> was using 99% of the cpu.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My EPIA machine is connected to a TV through the onboard
>>>>>> S-Video out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As a comparison I tried the same thing on my Athlon 2200+
>>>>>> running a ATI
>>>>>>> Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY video card.  I was again
>>>>>> surprised to see
>>>>>>> that mythfrontend was using less than 0.1% of the CPU and X
>>>>>> was using
>>>>>>> about 10%.  Needless to say it plays without missing a beat.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is it about the EPIA (hardware or drivers) which
>>> makes it soooo
>>>>>>> much slower than the Athlon system?  The difference is CPU
>>>>>> power is not
>>>>>>> enough to explain it.  Is it the video drivers?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And why is all the processing in mythfrontend on the EPIA
>>>>>> box, and in X
>>>>>>> on the Athlon?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for any and all opinions!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dick
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