[mythtv-users] Building another system, hardware questions

[Chad]

On 4/5/06, Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Warren <warren-lists at icruise.com> wrote:
> > Chad wrote:
> > > Better late than never, and I'll be adding my experience to a few
> > > wiki's around the net, but the skinny:
> > >
> > > It wasn't cut and dry.  Getting X to work was not the easiest thing to
> > > do ( I wanted to go Xorg-7 so that made things a little easier
> > > actually).  I was able to get the openchrome via driver working and
> > > loaded eventually, and then I could startx.  Then I tackled DRM and
> > > getting XvMC to work (which required some editing of files, in
> > > particular the drm/linux-core/via_pciids.txt file) and then some
> > > recompiling of my applications (including mythtv) to get it working.
> > > I also had to use some tweaks to help XvMCWrapper work with my system,
> > > but all in all, doing a diskless frontend on not-too-well-documented
> > > hardware, this went fairly nice!
> > >
> > >
> > Chad,
> >
> > Did you post your problems and resulting edits to the OpenChrome group?
> > If not, then please consider doing so as it would likely help them out.
> >
> > W
>
> Actually it was Ivor Hewit, a developer of the openchrome driver who
> suggested doing these edits to Chad.
> (I'm subscribed to the openchrome mailing list)
>
> Regards
> _______________________________________________

Indeed, and he was very helpful in getting the whole thing sorted.

Chad