EpiaM
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EpiaM tips and tricks under debian
Epia specific information (ezra and nehemiah dedicated)
- CLE266 MPEG decoding support
- Hauppauge PVR 250 debian configuration
- Mythtv installation notes
- Modules configuration for epia (video, alsa sound etc.)
- Xfree in opt: how to install latest cvs XFree in /opt/X11R6 to avoid interference with standard debian package
- lm_sensors temperature monitoring for epia mobo and cpufreq tricks
- Misc todo for epia: things I haven't managed to do yet and worth doing
- debian kernel packages and modules (alsa/i2c/lm-sensors/ivtv/lirc) for the epia are available for the ezra and nehemiah architectures at http://www.courville.org/debian/ezra and http://www.courville.org/debian/nehemiah respectively. Kernel configuration files are: http://www.courville.org/debian/ezra/CONFIG.ezra-2.4 and http://www.courville.org/debian/ezra/CONFIG.ezra-2.6.
Slightly outdated (kept there for reference)
- via binaries: where to copy files from latest via linux driver binary on a debian to enable dri
- mtrr fixing for avoiding excessive cpu usage
- Gcc compilation optimizations for the c3 Erza & Nehemiah
- CLE266 XFree recompilation for 3D(DRI)/2D support (valid for old via sources)
- CLEXF40016 match symbols to current kernel (outdated but here for reference)
Important configuration files will be soon available under cvs at http://www.courville.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
Links to visit
If you are searching information about running linux on VIA EPIA mobos probably you need to visit the following relevant sites (in addition to mine):
- the viaarena linux forum (I post there under Bragon acronym): http://forums.viaarena.com/categories.cfm?catid=28
- via own cle266 graphic engine linux drivers http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=325
- the linitx.org forum http://linitx.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
- the ultimate radagast howto: http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/epia/epia_howto/t1.html
- the gentoo howto from IamTheOne: http://blade5.bvu.edu/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaHowto
- the epia patchset and wiki from IamTheOne (a must): http://www.epiawiki.org/. Note that latest epia (sub-)patches are available directly at http://www.epiawiki.org/files/epia_kernel/
- Rroet excellent repository of almost all patches you dreamed about for your epia http://epia.kalf.org/
- another debian howto from witch: http://witch.muensterland.org/stories/26.html
- yet another debian howto (kind of outdated) http://members.iinet.net.au/~paulone/linux/VIA_CLE266_Epia_M_howto.html
- another gentoo howto: http://www.coredinal.nl/~~leon/epia/gentoo/
- Ivor's reverse engineering on the via only binaries for enabling MPEG decoding features of the CLE266 chipset: http://www.ivor.it/cle266/
- more notes on enabling MPEG decoding http://crp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/MPEG/details.html
- directfb with driver for CLE266 http://directfb.org/
- status of via xfree driver bugs: http://bugs.xfree.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525
- cvs tree for latest cvs via xfree driver: http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/via/
- totte cummulative xfree patch howto (superb!) http://www.shipmail.org/~~thomas/via/. The official site is now at http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/unichrome
- bios updates for the epiam mobo: http://www.viavpsd.com/product/Download.jsp?motherboardId=81 requested to support booting over USB (key/hd etc.).
- mini distribution dedicated to epia: minimyth from linpvr project http://linpvr.org/ (containing very up to date via drivers compiled for this distribution)
- knopmyth: a debian based (knoppix variant derived) for mythtv http://hust.la/KnoppMyth/
- VIA enhanced Xine Player (VeXP) sourceforge project http://sourceforge.net/projects/viaexp/
- CLE266 DirectFB driver sourceforge project http://sourceforge.net/projects/cle266dfb/
- CLE266 MPEG-2 decoder plugin for mplayer sourceforge project (not finalized) http://sourceforge.net/projects/cle266mp-plugin/
- mini-itx the ultimate reference for mini itx based mobos including the epiam http://www.mini-itx.com/
- study of the epia mobo layout and components (in french) http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/cm/epia/epia-4.htm
- german M6000 dedicated howto with technical data on relevant power supplies: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~hhoegl/proj/epia/
- silent power supplies (PSU): http://www.seanm.ca/eden/psu.html
- in order to use the entropy generator of the C5X (http://peertech.org/hardware/viarng/) you can use the folowing kernel patch http://peertech.org/hardware/viarng/C5Sources.html
- 2.6.x epia kernel support: apply Gryle's patche http://epia.kalf.org/gryle_patches/ and if you are bold apply also experimental patcher2k viafb patch http://patcher2k.012webpages.com/
- libddmpeg debian package made available by nchip through adding the following sources deb http://nchipin.kos.to/libddmpeg/ ./
- vt1211 module for 2.6 kernel http://hem.bredband.net/ekmlar/vt1211.html
- mplayer patch for supporting cle266 mpeg decoding with unichrome and libxvmc http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102048&package_id=130199
- mythtv patch for supporting cle266 mpeg decoding with unichrome and libxvmc http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=24597&group_id=102048
- unichrome xine plugin http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=414282
- YinYeti experience with Linux on the EPIA M10000N mainboardhttp://yves.gablin.club.fr/linux/index.php?lang=en&article=hardware/epia
- Minimyth a diskless distribution for creating an EPIA mediabox http://tavor.net/MiniMyth/howto.html based on mythtv
