[mythtv-users] 0.21 Not Viewable on VIA EPIA M10K (revisited)

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Sun May 25 20:36:06 UTC 2008


Mache Creeger wrote:
> At 03:06 PM 5/24/2008, Paul Bender wrote:
>> Chris Rouch wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> <rant>It is too bad that the Mesa support for VIA hardware is so
>> >> broken/fragile. Given the lack of CPU power on the VIA EPIA boards, you
>> >> would think that VIA would want OpenGL hardware acceleration to work.
>> >> Yet, they do not contribute to the development.</rant>
>> >
>> > Isn't that about to change?
>> > 
>> http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088 
>>
>>
>> I hope so. However, VIA has made previous false starts when it comes to
>> Open Source. Based on this past experience, I am doubtful that they will
>> provide much help with the Xorg Open Source drivers. I hope that I am 
>> wrong.
> 
 > I saw this thread and have had not problem running my VIA EPIA M10000
 > with the latest Fedora 8, 0.21 myth release.  Perhaps you should
 > consider clearcutting the install and starting from scratch.

As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I have it working.


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