Dear All,
does anyone of you has a combination of installation similar to $subj$?
There was a lot of things on epiawiki, but now the site seems to be down
and it is full of commercial scrap. Is there anywhere a backup of this site?
thx
david

David Belohrad <david.belohrad@cern.ch> writes:
>Is there anywhere a backup of this site?

The Wayback machine <http://www.archive.org/web/web.php> is always
worth a try.

- anton
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On Sun, 07 May 2006 17:44:59 +0200, David Belohrad <david.belohrad@cern.ch> wrote:


>Dear All,
>does anyone of you has a combination of installation similar to $subj$?
>There was a lot of things on epiawiki, but now the site seems to be down
>and it is full of commercial scrap. Is there anywhere a backup of this site?

Mandrake 2006 will take care of all the hardware except for the pvr350.
The pvr350 install isn't unique to the epia; just get the ivtv .2 drivers.
(.3 are experemental and don't always work.)

I dumped my epia-m as my main mythtv system because of the difficulty I had
with the cases. They either howled loud enough to be heard in the next
room or were fanless and overheated enough to for the entire case to
be too hot to touch. When my $299 fanless case caused my 3rd megabyte
memory stick to fail, I dumped it for an athlon 64 cpu, microatx motherboard
in an antec minuet 300 case. The motherboard has cpu fan control unlike
the epia and is nearly silent. I can't hear it 4' away. I might use
that fanless epia for a bedroom system; as long as it doesn't have to
do commercial detection jobs then it shouldn't overheat.

On 2006-05-08, AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:

>>does anyone of you has a combination of installation similar to $subj$?
>>There was a lot of things on epiawiki, but now the site seems to be down
>>and it is full of commercial scrap. Is there anywhere a backup of this site?
>
> Mandrake 2006 will take care of all the hardware except for the pvr350.

Which is probably irrelevent to somebody asking about Gentoo.
As long as we're suggesting he change distros, I'd suggest
Knoppmyth.

> The pvr350 install isn't unique to the epia; just get the ivtv .2 drivers.
> (.3 are experemental and don't always work.)

I've had zero problems with the 0.4.x "stable" branch, but I'm
running Knoppmyth on my Myth box rather than Gentoo.

> I dumped my epia-m as my main mythtv system because of the difficulty I had
> with the cases. They either howled loud enough to be heard in the next
> room or were fanless and overheated enough to for the entire case to
> be too hot to touch. When my $299 fanless case caused my 3rd megabyte
> memory stick to fail, I dumped it for an athlon 64 cpu, microatx motherboard
> in an antec minuet 300 case. The motherboard has cpu fan control unlike
> the epia and is nearly silent. I can't hear it 4' away. I might use
> that fanless epia for a bedroom system; as long as it doesn't have to
> do commercial detection jobs then it shouldn't overheat.

I'm pretty happy with my Shuttle "Zen". It's got an external
fanless power supply "brick", and a single case/cpu fan that's
speed-controlled.

--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com

well gentlemen,
i don't want to change to another distro. i'm fine with gentoo, I
already have this machine working for my home multimedia. problem is,
that with current installation I'm using X + freevo, what makes it
deadly slow when booting. it takes something like 2 minutes to start
kernel + Xorg + freevo. For this I wanted to use DirectFB to avoid
running Xorg. At the date of installation of my system (~1yr ago) I was
not able to setup correctly tvout + directfb + hardware acceleration of
mpegs.

On 2006-05-08, David Belohrad <david.belohrad@cern.ch> wrote:

> i don't want to change to another distro. i'm fine with
> gentoo, I already have this machine working for my home
> multimedia. problem is, that with current installation I'm
> using X + freevo, what makes it deadly slow when booting. it
> takes something like 2 minutes to start kernel + Xorg +
> freevo.

Does boot time realy matter? My MythTV system only reboots
after a power failure. Or is this not a dedicated PVR box?

> For this I wanted to use DirectFB to avoid running Xorg.

I don't think that'll save much time. On my machines Xorg only
takes 1-2 seconds to start.

> At the date of installation of my system (~1yr ago) I was not
> able to setup correctly tvout + directfb + hardware
> acceleration of mpegs.


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On Mon, 08 May 2006 01:42:09 -0000, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:


>On 2006-05-08, AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:

>>>does anyone of you has a combination of installation similar to $subj$?
>>>There was a lot of things on epiawiki, but now the site seems to be down
>>>and it is full of commercial scrap. Is there anywhere a backup of this site?
>>
>> Mandrake 2006 will take care of all the hardware except for the pvr350.

>Which is probably irrelevent to somebody asking about Gentoo.
>As long as we're suggesting he change distros, I'd suggest
>Knoppmyth.

ooops. I was thinking I was in the mandrake newsgroup. My bad.
Gentoo will handle the epia with no problems. It's xorg-x11 package
will include xvmc.




>> The pvr350 install isn't unique to the epia; just get the ivtv .2 drivers.
>> (.3 are experemental and don't always work.)

>I've had zero problems with the 0.4.x "stable" branch, but I'm
>running Knoppmyth on my Myth box rather than Gentoo.
'kay. My information was 18 months old.



>> I dumped my epia-m as my main mythtv system because of the difficulty I had
>> with the cases. They either howled loud enough to be heard in the next
>> room or were fanless and overheated enough to for the entire case to
>> be too hot to touch. When my $299 fanless case caused my 3rd megabyte
>> memory stick to fail, I dumped it for an athlon 64 cpu, microatx motherboard
>> in an antec minuet 300 case. The motherboard has cpu fan control unlike
>> the epia and is nearly silent. I can't hear it 4' away. I might use
>> that fanless epia for a bedroom system; as long as it doesn't have to
>> do commercial detection jobs then it shouldn't overheat.

>I'm pretty happy with my Shuttle "Zen". It's got an external
>fanless power supply "brick", and a single case/cpu fan that's
>speed-controlled.

I use a shuttle for my desktop and am very happy with it. I couldn't consider
the shuttle for the mythtv system because it was too tall for the tv stand
I was going to use it in.