[mythtv-users] Mythtv Gentoo Epia M10000 kernel 2.6.1hardwareacceleration

[Kenneth Aafløy]

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 20:31, Mikhail D'Vane wrote:
> We seem to run into alot of the same problems.
>
> The inability to get hardware acceleration running as a non-root user
> is due to a permissions issue (umm... I guess that might have gone without
> saying).
>
> The issue can (usually) be resolved by adding the following lines to
> XF86Config (I just tacked mine onto the bottom of the file):
>
> Section "DRI"
>    Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
> (However, I don't believe that the TV-functions of myth use any of the
> 3d-accelerated features, but you never know.)

The reason for the need for root access is that the libddmpeg library needs 
access to IO ports to communicate with the CLE266, this should have been done 
in kernel via a simple access layer, dunno what the VIA guy was smoking when 
coding it!

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Kenneth Aafløy
ke-aa at frisurf.no