[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA/CLE266 no longer supported? [was: Openchrome XvMC at >80% CPU after upgrade]

[Richard Morton]

I have got myth.21 running on an SP13000 Via board with XvMC
successfully under Karmic Xubuntu, I have mentioned this in a few
threads; 2.6.30 kernel fixed the bug.




2009/10/10 Mache Creeger <mache at creeger.com>:
> At 10:59 AM 10/10/2009, Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
>
> 2009/9/23 Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com>:
>> Mache Creeger wrote:
>>>
>>> I have recently tried to load up current myth rpms with current Fedora 11
>>> on my VIA EPIA M10K. The SD video with XvMC enbabled was slowmo with
>>> pauses.
>>> DVD isos on xine with XvMC work just fine. I am at a loss on how to
>>> proceed.
>>> While on Fedora and not Ubuntu I would be happy to work with you on this.
>>
>> This may be related to this bug report
>> < http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6561>
>
> interesting, i think this is the long standing bug i've had ever since
> i upgraded fedora some time ago.
> i've always assumed it was network related because my workaround that
> appears to stop the periodic freezes is to start ip traf and then let
> it do something like counting network traffic (interface statistics)
>
> but since i did a "yum update" yesterday everything seems to have broken.
> X doesn't display anything any more and i saw that it was updating the
> openchrome drivers.
>
> i'm considering abandoning my epia box for something else, too much
> odd problems over the years i've had it.
> not a big fan of via stuff.
>
> Looking back on this thread, it seems that people are saying the problems
> may go away with Fedora 12 and the 2.6.31 kernel.
>
> -- Mache
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