[mythtv-users] What build for via epia m1000?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/14/2013 10:48, Tyler T wrote:
>> I am facing a similar situation.  My plan is buy a cheap nvidia (vdpau)
>> video card to plug into my only open slot.
>
> Careful. I bought an Nvidia PCI card for my Via Epia, but the video
> driver blob refused to load because Via's crummy CPU didn't support
> the MOV instruction or something like that. I had to get a new mobo
> and CPU (not Via, of course) in order to load the driver and utilize
> VDPAU.

Those old Via systems are still only 586-class (Pentium Pro) CPUs, while 
most applications with any hand-coded ASM or binary objects assume at 
least 686-class (Pentium II). At some point, the most sensible option is 
just to upgrade.