Audio player on Via-Epia M

my64 · 2008-12-31 09:03:46

Hello,
I'd like to install Arch on a small machine that I intend to use as an audio player. The box will be connected to a good old Amplifier+loudspeakers. This is mainly to read internet radio streams, sometime also to read so ogg or mp3 music files. The machine has a VIA processor Epia-M.
Do you have any suggestion about what to install on it ?
Will the arch i586 work on it ?
Olivier

okplayer02 · 2009-01-01 05:23:21

well as far as playing music i seen lot of ppl using mpd and for the frontend like mpc or sonata. if im correct u should have no problem with i686 build since it is a modern processor so i see no reason why not its not an ancient processor your using correct me if im wrong some one else.

my64 · 2009-01-01 10:49:25

Thanks for your answer okplayer02,
I have tried already to install i686 arch, but it stops at boot with an error about the "cmov" instruction that it does not recognize.
As the "i586" page seems confusing and pretty outdated, I'll probably have to install some other distribution
Thanks for the other hints

okplayer02 · 2009-01-01 12:56:12

i am sure u can get it to work

i looked at the instructions what is confusing to u

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Arch_i586

did u look at this?

my64 · 2009-01-01 13:22:35

okplayer02 wrote:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Arch_i586
did u look at this?

Yes I did.
cvsup, libol packages does not exist. Don't know what they are used for.
There is no/etc/abs/abs.conf , no /var/abs directory.

okplayer02 · 2009-01-01 13:24:39

you to have abs installed on your system.

pacman -S abs

this how you build the packages on your system.

my64 · 2009-01-01 13:34:34

thanks for pointing me out this "abs".
I have used "makepkg" until now without the need for "abs" package.
But still, the cvsup and libol package are missing.

okplayer02 · 2009-01-01 13:56:29

yea if so then maybe out of luck i seen some iso's for i586 but they were from 2004 so its lil outdated lol. just keep looking around on google. otherwise u may have to go with annother distro

proc · 2009-02-20 20:19:41

Take a look at my Archlinux i586 project

http://code.google.com/p/archlinux-i586/

I've a VIA Epia 800 (older than your Epia-M) running Archlinux-i586

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