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

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 18:32:08 UTC 2009


2009/9/23 Mache Creeger <mache at creeger.com>:
> At 11:48 PM 9/22/2009, Ronald Pijnacker wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> In the past year I have tried to upgrade from mythtv 0.20 to 0.21 (both
> -fixes)
> and lately weekly trunk builds. My original setup is based on ubuntu 7.10
> which
> is now unsupported, therefore I would like to upgrade to 9.04 or maybe 9.10
> in the
> near future.
>
> I have started a few threads trying to figure out why mythtv after 0.20 is
> taking
> too much CPU on my via epia m1000 with cle266 graphics chip. However I am
> getting
> very little response.
> This could mean a few things:
>
> - I am asking the wrong kind of questions -- or in the wrong way
>   (if so, please let me know how to improve on this),
> - Nobody is using this kind of hardware configuration on recent mythtv, so
> nobody cares,
> - Other people are simply more clever/persistent/educated than me in getting
>   their setup running.
>
> To rule out the latter two options, I would like to ask whether other people
> are still
> using via epia m1000 systems to run recent versions of mythtv, and if so
> whether they
> are succesfull in getting the CPU usage down while watching SD
> (PAL/NTSC/DVD) content.
>
> If anyone with this kind of hardware is willing to share their
> configuration, I would
> very much appreciate this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ronald
>
> 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.
>
> -- Mache
>
> # more xorg.conf
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Default Layout"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
>         Option "AutoAddDevices"  "off"
>         Option "BlankTime" "0"
>         Option "StandbyTime" "0"
>         Option "SuspendTime" "0"
>         Option "OffTime" "0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of
> the
> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
> # no need to change the default.
>
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
>
> #  RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>   ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions"
>   ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input"
>   ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>   FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "dri2"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
>
> #Section "Monitor"
> #       Identifier   "Monitor-CRT"
> #       VendorName   "Dell"
> #       ModelName    "Dell Monitor"
> #       HorizSync    31.5 - 79.0
> #        VertRefresh  50.0 - 90.0
> #        Option      "dpms"
> #EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Analog NTSC Television"
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 50.0
>         VertRefresh  60.0 - 60.0
>         Option           "dpms"
> #        ModeLine "720x480" 26.7 720 736 808 896 480 481 484 497
> #        ModeLine "720x576" 32.7 720 744 816 912 576 577 580 597
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "openchrome"
>         VendorName  "Via Technologies"
>         BoardName   "CLE266 Unichrome"
>         Option      "PciRetry" "true"
> #       Option      "UseBIOS" "true"
> #       Option      "ActiveDevice" "TV"
>         Option      "ActiveDevice" "CRT,TV"
>         Option      "TVType" "NTSC"
> #       Option      "TVOutput" "Composite"
> #       Option      "TVDeflicker" "0"
>         Option      "TVOutput" "S-Video"
> #       Option      "TVVScan" "over"
> #  Option       "AccelMethod" "exa"
> #  Option       "ExaScratchSize" "8192"
> #  Option       "MaxDRIMem" "16384"
> #  Option       "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
>
> #       Option      "TVVScan" "under"
> #       Option      "TVDotCrawl"
> #       Option      "NoDDCValue"
> #       Option      "HQVManualSwitch"
> #       Option      "NoHQVVFilter"
> #       Option      "CaptureOverScanOff"
> #       Option      "Cap0Deinterlace" "Bob"
> #       Option      "Cap0Deinterlace" "Weave"
> #        Option      "Cap1Deinterlace" "Bob"
> #        Option      "Cap1Deinterlace" "Weave"
> #        Option      "Cap0FieldSwap"
> #        Option      "NoCap0HFilter"
> #        Option      "NoCap1HFilter"
> #        Option       "EnableAGPDMA" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
> #        Option "DPMS" "false"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                    Viewport   0 0
>                    Depth     24
>                    Modes     "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
>         Group        0
>         Mode         0666
> EndSection
>
> # more /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
> libchromeXvMC.so.1
>
>
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I'd highly recommend taking a look at minimyth if these are just
frontend machines.


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