[mythtv-users] [OT] VIA EPIA - Share your experiences. Desktop has it arrived?
Greg Cope
gregcope at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 07:51:12 UTC 2006
ALL IMHO of course
> Questions
> * VIA's attitude to linux - Good, bad or indifferent?
Bad - they offer the veneer of good support, but it is just that a veneer.
> * Unichrome chipset - Is this a binary blobs? Problems?
Depends - mostly good, although Xvmc support is excellent via
openchrome there is only so much open source developers can do.
> * DMA issues resolved?
Never had an issue that I could identify as that.
> * Support/ mailing lists, dedicated linux EPIA wiki
ok ish.....
> * Distro neutral driver & patches.
I've got most of it to work with Fedora with yum repo's. Gentoo
support is pretty good.
> * Sufficient CPU horsepower for desktop system
Yup.
> * System stability
Fine - occassional Xvmc lockups but the rest is fine.
> In short the EPIA concept is great for a low powered cheap desktop
> system. Does the reality match the theory using open source software?
I'd say yes - I'd get another for a desktop as long as you are aware
of the issues above and do not expect to have great graphics or CPU
performance - which on a WWW/email system is fine.
Greg
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