mini-ITX graphics woes

Colin Smillie csmillie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed May 18 21:38:16 UTC 2005


On 5/18/05, Stewart C. Russell <scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Jason and Mike, but my board -- the Via EPIA 800 -- has neither
> that graphics adaptor, nor those nifty MPEG decoders. Via did themselves
> a disservice, I think, by having so many quite different motherboards
> with very similar names.

I think the best you get with that card is Xv optimization.  I believe
there are also some compiler optimizations for the VIA chipsets, you
should probably enable these if Gentoo doesn't pick them up
automagically.  I'd also suggest looking at ALSA or OSS for the sound.
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