[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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