On 2006-05-08, David Belohrad <david.belohrad@cern.ch> wrote:

> i don't want to change to another distro. i'm fine with
> gentoo, I already have this machine working for my home
> multimedia. problem is, that with current installation I'm
> using X + freevo, what makes it deadly slow when booting. it
> takes something like 2 minutes to start kernel + Xorg +
> freevo.

Does boot time realy matter? My MythTV system only reboots
after a power failure. Or is this not a dedicated PVR box?

> For this I wanted to use DirectFB to avoid running Xorg.

I don't think that'll save much time. On my machines Xorg only
takes 1-2 seconds to start.

> At the date of installation of my system (~1yr ago) I was not
> able to setup correctly tvout + directfb + hardware
> acceleration of mpegs.


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