Minimyth

I have now switched to the linpvr minimyth http://linpvr.org/minimyth/index.shtml distribution for my epia SP8000 mediabox controlling my 1360x768 LCD TV screen. Contrary to geexbox, minimyth is designed for epia mobos and works out of the box with the binary distribution. Moreover since it relies on xorg, it is very easy to make it work full resolution with my LCD TV which is great: the crispyness of the image obtained is stunning!

Please find some information on what modifications I applied to make it work:

• I use a diskless box and perform a remote network boot using pxe
  • tftp server: tftpd-hpa
  • dhcp server configuration
  • pxe boot configuration

DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 help.msg
TIMEOUT 20
PROMPT 1
DEFAULT ram
LABEL nfs
  KERNEL nfs/kernel
  APPEND ro root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.0.2:/tftpboot/minimyth/nfs/rootfs ip=dhcp
LABEL ram
  KERNEL ram/kernel
  APPEND ro root=/dev/ram0 initrd=ram/rootfs ramdisk=64000

• Directory structure

/tftpboot -> tftp server toplevel
/tftpboot/minimyth -> minimyth distribution toplevel
/tftpboot/minimyth/{nfs|ram} -> minimyth untarred files
/tftpboot/conf/default -> minimyth configuration files

• minimyth configuration file minimyth.conf

MM_TZ='France/Paris' 
MM_AUDIO_TYPE='analog'
MM_VIDEO_ASPECT_RATIO='16:9'
MM_X_MODE='1360x768'
MM_X_MODELINE='Modeline "1360x768" 85.50 1360 1424 1536 1792 768 771 777 795 +hsync +vsync'
MM_X_OUTPUT_VGA='auto'
MM_MYTH_SERVER='192.168.0.2'
MM_MYTH_DBUSERNAME='mythtv'
MM_MYTH_DBPASSWORD='REPLACEBYYOURPASSWD'
MM_MYTH_DBNAME='mythconverg'
MM_THEME_NAME='blue'
MM_THEMEOSD_NAME='blueosd'
MM_MYTHVIDEO_URL="nfs://${MM_TFTP_SERVER}/agraver/videos"
MM_LIRC_DRIVER=serial
MM_LIRC_DEVICE=/dev/lirc0
MM_LIRC_KERNEL_MODULE=lirc_serial
MM_LIRC_KERNEL_MODULE_OPTIONS="type=0 irq=4 io=0x03f8"