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

[vpcompany@tiscali.it]

Il giorno Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:29:26 +0100
Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org> ha scritto:

> 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

the same here, but I've a EN1200 (CN700) and openchrome from trunk-713.
if I boot my system and do not play any accelerated video I can stay up for days, at least 30days.
If I play something with mplayer -vo xv I can see a couple of movies and close mplayer and go away too, but I know that in the near future (max 1 day) my system will freeze completely.
I tried to track the kernel using a serial link with another pc, but the freeze is so bastard that also the output of the backtrace is interrupted after a line or two... sometime also without any line!

If I play videos without xv ...eg: not accelerated x11 or playing youtube clips in a browser using flash player, the system will not freeze.

the problem is present since ever, or at least since I use this motherboard (~3years?), and I'm not the only one in the same situation: (friends, forums, another en1200 of mine...)

regards,
Alfa