[mythtv-users] Gentoo + VIA Binary driver

[Paul W. Smith]

I pretty much have my M10000+PVR250+Gentoo system set up now, except for the 
fact that my CPU is hitting 100% when watching LiveTV, which causes 
occasional freezing.  I've tried adjusting all of the MythTV settings, as 
well as the EDX field correction in cputest.c.  I've also gone through this 
post:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/
gforum.cgi?post=110741;search_string=epia-m10k%20mpeg2%20decoder%
20performance;guest=2880558&t=search_engine#110741


I'm at the point now where I'm seriously considering attempting to go with the 
VIA binary driver to see if this helps any.  A few quick questions:

Does anyone know if there is a difference in the playback of live TV when 
using the binary driver as opposed to Ivor's open source driver (does live TV 
even use the hardware decoding of the M10000)?

Is there a procedure on the net somewhere that will help me to get the VIA 
binary driver working with Gentoo 1.4 (2.4 kernel)?  Is this even possible?

Could my problem have more to do with my X configuration, rather than a driver 
issue?


TIA 

Paul

PS.  Thanks everybody for the excellent help that I received on previous 
issues that I was having!