[mythtv-users] Mythtv Gentoo Epia M10000 kernel 2.6.1 hardwareacceleration

[Scott Rowe]

 David, I recently ran across a problem with my M10k, having to do with the
MMX instruction set not being reported correctly. See this thread for the
fix- http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2004-February/034007.html. 

As to glxgears.. I'm using the via binary drivers, and can't get hardware
acceleration as a non-root user (may not apply, but run glxgears as root?)

-Scott Rowe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Lodeiro
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:36 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythtv Gentoo Epia M10000 kernel 
> 2.6.1 hardwareacceleration
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	I am sending this email in the hope that someone can 
> see something that I am missing with my setup. As the title 
> suggests, my setup is a Via Epia M10000 running Gentoo with 
> the 2.6.1 kernel. However, the kernel was using the ebuild 
> located at http://epia.kalf.org/portage/sys-kernel/epia-dev-sources/
> whick compiled fine and boots, the dmesg is located at 
> http://davel.humbug.org.au/dmesg and kernel config is located 
> at http://davel.humbug.org.au/config Xfree was built using 
> the ebuild located at 
> http://epia.kalf.org/portage/x11-base/xfree-epia/
> and it was
> xfree-epia-4.4.0-r3.ebuild
> Which emerged without errors. Xfree log is at 
> http://davel.humbug.org.au/XFree86.0.log
> and Xfree config is located at
> http://davel.humbug.org.au/XF86Config
> 
> The main problem that I am trying to get resolved is that of 
> hardware acceleration, wether it uses onboard mpeg2 decoding 
> or not doesnt bother me to much at the moment as the 1Ghz 
> processor can handle it. The thing is that at the moment 
> glxgears only gives me about 60 fps and from what I see other 
> people are getting about 500 fps. I cant even watch tv with 
> myth or dvd's. 
> Framebuffer is working and I can watch mplayer using 
> framebuffer from the console. Directfb also works fine, but I 
> cant get hardware acceleration working in X.
> 
> One thing that I am a little unclear about is, is it 
> necessary / possible to use the Xfree binary drivers of the 
> viaarena website? Considering that I am using a kernel and 
> distro not supported by via. 
> 
> My lsmod shows
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> via_agp                 6144  1 
> via_v4l_drv           130448  0 
> via                    50080  1 via_v4l_drv
> 
> Any help would be mush appreciated, this is my last major 
> hurdle in completing my mythtv setup, I even have my custom 
> bootsplash ready.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> David
>