Support for VIA EPIA M-Series

[second_exodous]

Cool, worked. How about TV out and audio? Anyone got these working?

Well, I'm off to emerge kde, it's going as i'm typing(i'm on my ibook right now) oh boy. 600 mhz is hardly enough to install source, but it made my main computer work so much better than it did with redhat and mandrake.

Thanx,
Stan

[lazarusrat]

TV Out I can't help you with. The folks at http://linitx.org or http://forums.viaarena.com might be more help there.

For sound, if you use a recent -ac kernel, the OSS drivers are in there and work fairly well. If you want to go Alsa, have a look at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=62555. Either way, you'll need a software mixer if you want more than one thing going at once. Such as artsd, which should be in there with your KDE emerge.

[rippleatwpi]

I just emerged the latest alsa-9.x packages - ac3 passthrough and spdif output work out of the box on my epia M-10k. After loading the modules, I ran alsamixer and unmuted the iec958 output device, and gave pcm and master some volume.

To get AC3 passthrough all I have to do is an 'mplayer -ao alsa9:iec958 -ac hwac3 movie.avi'

PCM minus the AC3 is just 'mplayer -ao alsa9:iec958 movie.avi'

I'll comment on TV out after I have emerged the latest xfree-4.3.99.x. So far I got it working trivially with xfree's vesa driver, however lacking xv output, mplayer turned dvd and avi playback into a slideshow. hopefully the 'via' driver will improve things...

[yslee925]

hi,

My EPIA model is V10K. I followed the ac3 hints by rippleatwpi. However, I got bad luck. The spdif out won't work. The error message is as follow:

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 $ mplayer -vo xvidix -ao alsa9:iec958 -ac hwac3 -v 2 dolby-city.vob
... <cutted> ...
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: hwac3
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through SP/DIF
dec_audio: Allocating 8192 bytes for input buffer
dec_audio: Allocating 16384 + 65536 = 81920 bytes for output buffer
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
hwac3: switched to AC3, 448000 bps, 48000 Hz
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x400), ratio: 56000->192000 (448.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm:hwac3 (AC3 through SPDIF)
==========================================================================
... <cutted>
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/8bit...
[libaf] Adding filter dummy 
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=48000Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000020 and bps = 2
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, big endian AC3 
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch AC3
alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 2 channels, AC3
alsa-init: compiled for ALSA-0.9.2
alsa-spdif-init: playing AC3, 2 channels
alsa-init: soundcard set to iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2
ALSA lib pcm.c:1785:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 definition (id: iec958, value: cards.pcm.iec958)
alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Uninit audio filters...
[libaf] Removing filter dummy 
uninit audio: hwac3
Audio: no sound

The City trailer from http://www.cinenow.com/us/vobtrailer.php3 The weird thing is that it is supposed to be 5.1 channes while I got only 2 ch from my log.

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alsa-driver-0.9.8
mplayer-1.0_pre2

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r8, 2.4.22-openmosix)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-openmosix i686 VIA C3 Ezra
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11
distcc 2.11.2 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=i586 -m3dnow -mmmx -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i586 -m3dnow -mmmx -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs distcc"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm avi crypt cups foomaticdb kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell xml2 xmms zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline ggi sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib qt motif opengl mozilla X gtk gtk2 gnome oss alsa -sse 3dnow mmx jpeg svga oggvorbis aalib xv truetype dvd gif esd encode samba lirc arts java"

any idea?

[lazyleopard]

Has the "via" driver been dropped from "xfree-4.3.0-r3" ? I'm getting:

(EE) Failed to load module "via" (module does not exist, 0)

in my log...

Edit: Found an answer in this thread, and I'm now running an

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emerge /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.3.99.15.ebuild

[vedic-Ai]

Hi,

I have a problem running xfree-4.3.99.16 on my Epia ME8000 board.
When I run "XFree86 -configure" I gen an error message:

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        via
(EE) Failed to load module "via" (once-only module, 136083937)

I checked the unpacked source and "drivers/via" is present and seems up-to-date. It is also installed in "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/" under the name via_drv.o (is this OK?). So I tried to insmod it... no success (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for).

Any idea why this might be happening?

I also noticed that agpgart module does not load:

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iFoto linux # modprobe agpgart
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod agpgart failed

Can it be that this is related to my xfree via driver not loading?
Here is my "lsmod":

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Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: GF
ohci1394               16488   0  (unused)
ieee1394               32236   0  [ohci1394]
via-rhine              12752   1
mii                     2352   0  [via-rhine]
usb-storage            60600   0  (unused)
hid                    13620   0  (unused)
uhci                   24384   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               14336   0  (unused)
usbcore                58912   1  [usb-storage hid uhci ehci-hcd]

Any hint on how to proceed would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Rroet]

make sure you you have the epia patch in your kernel and you're not running agpart. Better use the kernel module "via" and "via_v4l_drv"

I haven't tested with the cle266vgaio module just yet, just because I don't know what it does.

further more, on my M10000 the 4.3.99.16 ran just fine. Don't try to install the VIA-DRM drivers ontop of it. It will brake your video output when you start playing files with mplayer or mythtv.

mplayer / mythtv use xv as standard video out afaik, and that gives you a nice colored static image with a load of pink in between.

just use the plain xfree86 support in 4.3.99.16 or (as I'm compiling right now) 4.3.99.901 .

for good instructions for gentoo check: http://blade5.bvu.edu/ and http://epia.repvik.org/
the latter is a forum created out of the mythtv mailinglist to have a good central point for mythtv on gentoo and epia discussions.