[Discuss] Intel CedarView GPU driver, can one make it work?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> writes:

>> So if you read no further into this posting, remember this next time
>> you're enticed by a snazzy new PC.  Your first question shall be: is the GPU
>> from NVIDIA?  No?  Fuhgeddaboutit.
>
> For accelerated video support, you need to be careful what
> you're buying from NVIDIA, too. Cards in the 7xxx and earlier
> series are no longer supported by MythTV, for instance. Buy a
> new high end card and you may not get support from an
> installable kernel.
>
> (The GT220 is more or less optimal for MythTV, and has apparently been
> discontinued.)

I have a GT218 in my Zotac ION/nettop box and it works great as a Myth
frontend!  I installed F17 and just added the nvidia driver via yum from
rpmfusion and the VDPAU works great.  1080 HD going out HDMI with a
system load of about 0.3.

My next project for this box is to try to get the BluRay player working
on Linux.  Now *that* I expect to be a major trial.  :-/

-derek

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