[mythtv-users] gave up on the Epia

[Devan Lippman]

I don't use EPIA for myth but I don know that the C3 is not a single
core and some C3 processors actually compile better as i586...
So does this mean there's a mini-ITX board for sale, or were you just
getting discouraged?

-- 
Thanks,
Devan Lippman <devan at lippman.net>

On 4/13/05, Michael Carland <mcarland at bitsgonewild.net> wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:15 AM, James Stembridge wrote:
> 
> > On 4/13/05, Michael Carland <mcarland at bitsgonewild.net> wrote:
> >> The issue was that I compile for epia with -march=c3, and the
> >> offending
> >> package built a utility for itself, and then failed running it since
> >> the desktop
> >> didn't have the c3 magic.
> >
> > Does using -march-c3 make any noticable performance difference?
> 
> Dunno, I've never done it any other way. I just figured since I was
> compiling from source anyways, I would set the appropriate arch.
> 
> > I just use standard debian packages (which afaik will work on an
> > i386), even my kernel is just a standard i686 version.
> >
> 
> I started with Debian sarge. Trying to work through my tv out problems,
> I switched to a self compiled Xorg, and not being a deb wizard, I then
> had to compile everything that depended on X. I'm sure if I took the
> time, I could have found a deb for Xorg 6.8.2, and learned how to use
> deb sources so I could do the unichrome patches. Or even just found
> unichrome debs. But even though it has been frustrating, sometimes I
> like to build the stuff myself so I know more about how it works.
> 
> >> Regarding giving up on epia, I don't have any of the DMA problems, or
> >> even FF/REW problems (although the machine is diskless, so I suppose
> >> there are fewer DMA contentions),
> >
> > I have a disk and haven't see any issues. How might they manifest
> > themselves?
> >
> > The only stability problem I've had was lockups caused by the longhaul
> > cpufreq module, since I've stopped using that it seems pretty solid.
> 
> I never installed longhaul, and I've never had DMA issues. I'm just
> referring to the constant stream of via dma complaints, system lockups
> I believe. I imagine you could be right, that longhaul has a large part
> in it. Also, I know the ivtv people recently discovered they had been
> letting a bad default value exist for dma timeouts, and this somehow
> affected via more than other chipsets (via chipsets had a different
> default dma timeout value?).
> 
> But, since I don't seem to have any dma issues, I'm just worrying about
> the problems I do have. I'm thinking .18 will fix my XvMC VLD, and then
> I need to find a job, so I can pay someone to come and tune up my TV!
> 
> -Michael
> 
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