On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 16:26, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 17:47, Eric Webb wrote: > > > > > XvMC was NVidias extension to X to provide hardware MPEG acceleration > (providing MC - motion compenstation, and IDCT). It made sense for the > unichrome development to build on this rather than invent a new interface, so > what was called XxMC and a variety of other names was created. This provides > support for a higher level acceleration called VLD. Although the CLE266 does > also support MC and IDCT too. The CN400 provides MPEG4 MC acceleration so its > likely that will be implemented in the unichrome driver using XvMC also. > > > After googling a lot, I'm confused by all of the different EPIA > > development. I guess Via is doing some and others are doing their own > > stuff. > Yup pretty much. Although going onto the unichome mailing list is probably a > good step for information about graphics support.
I don't think you should be using viafb, if not mistaken that's for FrameBuffer as in usage for console. > > Thus far, I'm using the ALSA snd_via82xx module that came with > > slackware, > Recent ALSA has good via support. I don't know if there are any great > advantages to VIA's binary sound drivers... but I've never had a distro they > would install on so I can't say. > Alsa works Great It;s one of the less problematic ones. U would need to do a lot of work to get Graphics to work properly. I don't have any epxerience with myth(yet, still experimenting and currently with freevo) and using Gentoo as the base. If you want, I can help. (as much as I am able to since my struggle with it for over 3 weeks finally shows _some_ pay off. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:54:20 up 2:44, 6 users, load average: 0.47, 0.44, 0.30
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