[linux-dvb] Re: Linux on SAT receivers

["Franck Arnaud" <franck@nenie.org>]

Markus Peuhkuri:

> going for VIA EPIA mini-ITX board but it looks like VIAs Linux support
> is like:

Who told you that? Don't believe them! :-)
 
> 	"Yes, you can boot to Linux.  You won't have good sound or
> 	 access to hw-MPEG decoder, but we support it.  Really.  Maybe

I think sound drivers are available, and should be good enough with the
EPIA-M. The lower cost EPIA sound is not very good (always upsamples 
to 48Khz I think, although that should not be an issue with DVB) but is 
supported. The hardware MPEG decoder on the EPIA-M is not supported, but 
most C3 CPUs are good enough to do MPEG-2 decoding in software.

> 	 we provide non-functioning binary drivers for some
> 	 distributions of our choise."

Well, Alan Cox uses those boards, and the X11 driver for the EPIA-M video 
is in the current Xfree86 CVS, so it should be safe. There's also an 
independent ProSavage (the video chip used on the EPIA-M) source driver 
around.

> Any other low-power compact boards available with good Linux support

Note DVB may be an issue for low-power, eg a budget DVB-S card did not 
work for me with the small Cubid ITX box because of the PSU. The hauppauge 
nova probably uses 10-20W (nominally the LNB supply is 18V @ 500ma which 
is already 9W) which is a lot for a small 60W PSU if you factor in 
various inefficiencies (like converting voltages up and down several 
times with linear regulators). The DVB card may use more power than 
the motherboard...

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franck@nenie.org



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