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claybo at pacbell

Dec 18, 2003, 6:47 PM

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Best distro for EPIA?

My ME6000 should arrive tomorrow. As I prepare for it, I'd like to get
some suggestions as to the best distribution to use with it -- Redhat,
Gentoo, Debian, etc. I know Torsten Schenkel has put up instructions
on getting Myth working on the exact set-up I'm using (ME6000, PVR350)
under Debian. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I will be using Myth and all its modules (mythgame and mythmusic
especially) almost exclusively on this machine. I know asking for the
"best distro" usually starts a holy war, but since the EPIA is a
speciality board and I want its onboard video to work well (just in
case the PVR350 doesn't satisfy me 100%) as well as its SPDIF audio, I
guess this is all good to know.

Also, I'm moderately experienced in Linux and setting machines up, so
the difficulty level of getting a distro working is not quite as
important -- I'm looking for best speed, compatibility, ability to get
Myth running, etc.

Thanks a lot!

torsten.schenkel at web

Dec 18, 2003, 11:37 PM

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Re: Best distro for EPIA? [In reply to]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 02:47, Clay wrote:
> My ME6000 should arrive tomorrow. As I prepare for it, I'd like to get
> some suggestions as to the best distribution to use with it -- Redhat,
> Gentoo, Debian, etc. I know Torsten Schenkel has put up instructions
> on getting Myth working on the exact set-up I'm using (ME6000, PVR350)
> under Debian. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I won't jump at this bait, no, I won't jump ....

> I will be using Myth and all its modules (mythgame and mythmusic
> especially) almost exclusively on this machine. I know asking for the
> "best distro" usually starts a holy war, but since the EPIA is a
> speciality board and I want its onboard video to work well (just in
> case the PVR350 doesn't satisfy me 100%) as well as its SPDIF audio, I
> guess this is all good to know.

My instructions include the pvr tv-out only. The TV out onboard didn't
satisfy me, so I abandoned it. SP/dif works nicely.

If you need it for divX playback or something else. The best bet is to
go the redhat 9.0 road, there are via binary drivers for the onboard VGA
and TV-out. You have to stick with redhat's stock kernel and it can (or
will) be a PITA for beginners to compile modules against redhat stock.

> Also, I'm moderately experienced in Linux and setting machines up, so
> the difficulty level of getting a distro working is not quite as
> important -- I'm looking for best speed, compatibility, ability to get
> Myth running, etc.

If you know a distribution best, why not take that? In that case there
is the epia 2.4.23 kernel and the possibility to get XFree running on it
is there (I didn't test, since I have XFree 4.2 and the driver needs
4.3). It doesn't depend on distribution, it's mostly building stuff
yourself. And you better do that on a system you know where the buttons
are.

Torsten
--
Config files for PVR350 TV-Out:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
Walkthrough: MythTV on Epia with PVR350 using Debian:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough

jcw at wilsonet

Dec 19, 2003, 2:47 AM

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Re: Best distro for EPIA? [In reply to]

On Dec 18, 2003, at 10:37 PM, Torsten Schenkel wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 02:47, Clay wrote:
>> My ME6000 should arrive tomorrow. As I prepare for it, I'd like to
>> get
>> some suggestions as to the best distribution to use with it -- Redhat,
>> Gentoo, Debian, etc. I know Torsten Schenkel has put up instructions
>> on getting Myth working on the exact set-up I'm using (ME6000, PVR350)
>> under Debian. Does anyone else have any suggestions?
>
> I won't jump at this bait, no, I won't jump ....

Heh, me neither... =]

>> Also, I'm moderately experienced in Linux and setting machines up, so
>> the difficulty level of getting a distro working is not quite as
>> important -- I'm looking for best speed, compatibility, ability to get
>> Myth running, etc.
>
> If you know a distribution best, why not take that?

What he said. I'd definitely recommend using whatever you're most
comfortable with to start out. Just as long as you don't say Lindows.
:)

> In that case there
> is the epia 2.4.23 kernel and the possibility to get XFree running on
> it
> is there (I didn't test, since I have XFree 4.2 and the driver needs
> 4.3). It doesn't depend on distribution, it's mostly building stuff
> yourself. And you better do that on a system you know where the buttons
> are.

I'm going to start hacking apart my HushPC this weekend, using the epia
kernel and my spare AVerMedia M179... I'll probably go with Debian,
partially since your [Torsten's] docs will apply for the most part, and
partially so I can try out Progeny's Anaconda port.

--
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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