We do a lot of video encode stuff with Voyage (not so much playback), so
we try and track what is out there that works well and it low cost for
hardware. It would appear that the Intel Atom D945GCLF is shipping
now, at around $80 USD qty 1, with a 1.6GHz CPU and a much more potent
grahaics engine GMA 950 than Alix, as well as much better RAM
upgradeable, it would seem that it could handler a video playback
application like what you describe below much better than Alix could
(much as it saddens me to say it) even withg frame buffer, and that a it
would not take much to get Voyage to run well on this platform, since it
is based on venervcal Intel 82945G (ICH7). This board, I think, will
take over many many application niches where Via and Geode are hot today.
Cheers,
- Michael
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Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
Hi,
If you are using XFree86, I think you may need framebuffer driver.
With XOrg, it will have a native geodelx video driver. My question
is, if XOrg on Etch does not support geode lx, will adding framebuffer
support help?
Next 0.6 release will base on lenny, and will be available at around
summer time.
Regards,
Punky
Dario Finardi wrote:
Yes, you're correct.
I'm investigating about the way to use such cheap and low power
consumption boards (alix pcengines and soekris) to build embedded
devices with the ability to drive display not charging the cpu with
the heavy X11 infrastructure.
About X11: I see the Geode support was introduced in X11 starting
from Debian 4.0 Lenny and Sid.
Etch hasn't such a driver yet.
Have you some roadmap timing to port Voyage from Etch to Lenny yet?
NOTE: I tested X11 without any specific video driver. Geode is driven
only as a plain VGA with really poor performances and supporting few
resolutions/color depth.
Regards,
dario
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato:
mercoledì 21 maggio 2008 3.37
A: Dario Finardi
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oggetto: Re: [Voyage-linux] Alix1/3 VGA support (lxfb)
Hi
I am not convinced why a geode lx driver is needed. As far as I read
from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_Drivers and kernel
documentation, framebuffer is for provide graphical support on kernel
console. Correct me if i am wrong. Any other strong reason than that?
Regards,
Punky
Dario Finardi wrote:
I was looking for the lxfb module to have optimized support of the
Geode framebuffer.
I made an hand-check, then installed module-assistant too.
I see the lxfb module ins't available in the Voyage mainstream
distribution.
Someone with a solution?
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