[wplug] mini-itx and CF booting

[Chris Thomas]

Depending on which processor your epia has, your cflags can vary. If
you have the wrong cflags, you could run into problems with software
not compiling. See this page for more details:

http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaInstallingGentoo

There are kernels and kernel patches made for the epia, but these
aren't necessary to build a base system. I didn't use any software
outside of portage the last time I installed Gentoo on my epia. The
only things that the patches do, to my knowledge, is give you access
to the cle266 frambuffer and the onboard vt1211 sensors (which I
didn't care about). Although, running Freevo and Xine via the
framebuffer (eliminating Xorg) would rock!

In the past the most difficult thing about the epia was getting the
onboard mpeg decoding working. Unichrome is now built into newer
kernels, so it is now much easier.

See this page about Gentoo and Unichrome:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Unichrome

-Chris

On 12/20/05, James O'Kane <jo2y at midnightlinux.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Joe Gallo wrote:
> >
> > Did you have to do anything special to make Gentoo work with the Epia?
> > (I'm talking about non-standard patches to programs or the kernel,
> > drivers, etc, not just installing from a particular stage... which of
> > course is an entirely different sort of *special*.)
>
> I tried to do a stage 1 install on my VIA EPIA M10000. I had some
> difficulty during 'emerge world' where things would fail to build. I
> didn't document the failure clearly, and it's possible that it was a
> new-to-gentoo problem. I was trying to tweak the USE variable fairly
> heavily. I then ran into a time constraint and failed back to
> something I knew better and knew worked.
>
> There are some patches out there for EPIA specific hardware, but I think
> they are just enhancements instead of 'must have to get it to work'
> things.
>
> Next time I have time, I'll probably try gentoo again.
>
> -james
>
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