On Apr 13, 2005, at 5:49 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:

On 13/04/2005, at 12:35 AM, James Stembridge wrote:
On Apr 12, 2005 11:58 AM, Matthew Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
so although TV worked out of the box it was pegging the CPU until I did
a recompile (takes 2.5 hours :/).

Why compile on the epia? I just compile deb's on my desktop, transfer them over to the mythtv box and install. Much quicker :)

It certainly would be a good idea to do that - if I had another x86 box to compile on ;) My home PC is a PowerBook and I'm not brave enough to attempt a cross-compilation setup with gcc (if that's even possible).

I can't remember what package it was, but I've had trouble compiling things for my epia on my desktop machine. The issue was that I compile for epia with -march=c3, and the offending package built a utility for itself, and then failed running it since the desktop didn't have the c3 magic.


I'm sure there's a better way around this, assuming the offending package supports cross compiling, but being the lazy person I am, I just build everything for my frontend on my frontend. Sort of computer assisted procrastination.

Regarding giving up on epia, I don't have any of the DMA problems, or even FF/REW problems (although the machine is diskless, so I suppose there are fewer DMA contentions), but I have had more than my fair share of video problems. Part of the problem is possibly caused by a problem with my TV (some picture distortion), but also video stuttering problems with live tv, which seem to be XvMC related. I haven't applied all the patches to .17, but I think I read there are XvMC VLD changes in CVS I don't have that are related, so I'm crossing my fingers and waiting for .18.

I'm not giving up on my M10K yet, but if I knew then what I know now, it's not the way I would have started.

-Michael

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