On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:58:26PM +0100, Graham Trott wrote:
Are these TV drivers generally available? I tried to get Linux to give me a stable picture out of an EPIA5000 about a year ago and failed miserably. Haven't tried since but I wouldn't mind picking it up again. For the past year the machine has been my living room audio playout box (controlled by a Zaurus using wi-fi) and as it sits under the TV it'd be good to shovel all my digital photos into it and get it to run slide shows etc.
The TV drivers are more than generally available, apparently the quality of the TV-out on the Epia M 5000 is abysmal (never tried mine connected to a tele so know not of gfx or sound) although later Bios versions apparently improve the tv-out but it is still not great. You could build a vga > rgb cable and work out the timings in the X-Windows config yourself (but you may blow your tele up if you get it wrong) to get it working through an rgb scart lead or similar.
Oh, and the lan in my epia m 5000 works fine, well all the hardware does but I don't know about gfx or sound as I use mine as a router.
Adam