[Openchrome-users] opencrome in Debian 5 on Epia M.

[Xavier Bachelot]

Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a box with an EPIA M board (Nehemiah 1GHz) which includes  a CLE266
> card.
> Previously I installed on it Ubuntu 7.10, which worked ok. I used the 'via'
>  xorg driver which came with the distro (I think it was not using
> acceleration) and could watch DiVX and even DVD (sometime a little slow)
> with mplayer.
> 
> Now I have 'upgraded' the box to Debian stable (5.0). This distro comes with
> two drivers which work with my hardware, xerver-xorg-video-via and
> xerver-xorg-video-openchrome. Unfortunately, with both drivers, mplayer (and
> also vlc) causes random freezes of the box. By random I mean that it plays
> for a while, but usually the freeze occurs in the first half-hour. I think
> it crashes the kernel, not just freezes X, because after that I cannot reach
> the box by network.
> 
Could you please post your xorg conf and xorg log ?
Did you try to remove the debian provided package and update to
openchrome svn trunk ?
If that doesn't help, could you please post a backtrace of the crash ?

CLE266 should be well supported, including hardware acceleration.

Regards,
Xavier