Customisation for Mini-box.com systems and VIA EPIA platforms

We customised iMedia to run and have better support for mini-box.com systems and VIA Epia platforms. A big part of the packages have drivers for EPIA motherboards and also our Xwindows server/ Frame buffer is configured for VIA EPIA boards.

We also provide a lcd software which is suited for the LCD displays in M100, M200 and M300 low power mini-itx systems from Mini-Box.com. This package contains a LCD server and client. Client displays a menu which is configurable by user (can add new entries, assign commands to be executed on LCD Keypad actions). This menu contains:
  • System Status ( live status of your box including processor utilisation, memory, disk space information, VU metter for sound card input signal, list of the processes in memory, FAN/Temperature sensors)
  • System Maintenance (  Sync drives,  reboot, shutdown etc.)
  • Network Setup (setup you IP, hostname, gateway, dns servers)
  • Log Files ( you can list log files on you LCD. Scrolling is made by using the scroll keys on LCD Keypad).
  • Sound options
  • LCD options
Also each F key (function key) on LCD keypad can be assigned a command (like start an mp3player) from the lcdmenu file.

Partial list of packages that you will find on iMedia CDROM:

Package name Description
lcd LCD/Keypad support for Mini-Box M100 systems
abiwor Word Editor
mmsv2 A complete menu system to play audio files , view pictures and watch
lirc Linux Infrared applications (lirc). If you install this you will need to also install a kernel driver to talk to your hardware like lirc_serial driver.
wget Wget let's you download web pages or files over ftp.
xmms Audio media player with X interface
xpdf A small PDF viewer
mythtv-boot Starts MythTV at boot time. Includes user setup, sudo rights, XWindows settings and autologin
TinyX Small XWindows system running on top of framebuffer.You'll also need a framebuffer driver and a window manager installed
vncviewer A client for the vnc server
dillo A small browser which doesn't supports frames
opera Opera Web browser
mmsv2-boot Starts MMS v2 at boot time
xawtv Small suite of video4linux related software, with video recording capabilities and serveral useful command line tools
XWindows Full XWindows system.
XWindows-boot Starts directly XWindows
rrdtool RoundRobinDatabase Tool for generating graphs with your system traffic
firefox A full featured browser client with latest standards compliant
gentoo-commander A XWindows File Manager
calcoo An X Windows graphical scientific calculator designed to provide maximum usability.
thunderbird A full featured mail client with latest standards compliant
apache iMedia HTTPd Server 1.3.27, very light apache server
faac-mplayer Movie Player with support for
sylpheed Compact X Mail Client
XWindows-fonts-TTF True Type fonts to be used with XWindows or TinyX
ogg123 mp3 decoder-ogg123 Myth TV is a PVR application.You'll also need to install mysql, lirc, Xwindows or TinyX and mplayer-mythtv
wm-matchbox A window manager for XWindows or TinyX which is designed for set-top boxes, kiosks and anything else that screenspace, input mechanisms or system resources are limited
wm-fluxbox A standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager for XWindows or TinyX
wm-openbox A standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager for XWindows or TinyX
fbpanel A desktop panel with many features like: taskbar, pager,'show desktop' button, launchbar, image viewer,clock,tray, menu,space filler, cpu monitor
fbdesk A desktop icon manager with many features
alsaplayer Audio player with support for mp3/vorbis/wav/cdda/mad files
mp3decoder MP3 decoder which let you play local or remote files your favorite music playlist
runfree Small menu application that can launch other programs.
scrot A simple commandline screen capture utility that uses imlib2 to grab and save images
gputty Gputty is a clone of windows Putty which is a ssh client.
gimagewiev GImageView is a GTK+ image and movie browser
gaim Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks
XWindows-fonts-100dpi 100 dpi fonts to be used with XWindows or TinyX.
realplayer RealMedia Player 10
tvtime TVtime is a high quality television application for use with video capture cards.
webadmin Various tools for setting up linux box via web interface ( user admin , password 4admin)
mythtv-settings Myth TV is a PVR application.You'll also need to install mysql, lirc, Xwindows or TinyX and mplayer
usblcd USB LCD/Keypad support for Mini-Box M200/M300 systems
ivtv Linux PVR-150/350 capture card support
lirc-serial Linux infrared serial device support. Install this package if you have an infrared receiver which connects to computer serial port
alsa-sound ALSA Sound support for VIA chipsets VT82xx-
lirc-hauppauge VIA EPIA-V with t Linux infrared PVR-200/250/300,Hauppauge device support. Install this package if you have an infrared receiver which connects to a hauppauge based capture card.rident video card X Windows 2d acceleration support.
ivtv  Linux PVR-150/350 capture card support
viacle266-mpeg-3d-accell VIA Pro/Cle266 X Windows mpeg and 2d/3d acceleration support
viacle266-mpeg-3d-accell VIA EPIA-V with trident video card X Windows 2d acceleration support
ivtv-250 Linux PVR-250 capture card support
fb-epia Epia board based FrameBuffer support
fb-cle266 CLE266 board based FrameBuffer support-
lirc-serial Linux infrared serial device support. Install this package if you have an infrared receiver which connects to computer serial port
alsa-sound ALSA Sound support for VIA chipsets VT82xx-
lirc-hauppauge Linux infrared PVR-200/250/300,Hauppauge device support. Install this package if you have an infrared receiver which connects to a hauppauge based capture card.
via-sound Sound support for via chipsets VT82C686A/VT82C686B/VT8231/VT8233/VT8233A/VT8233B/VT8235/VT8237-
ivtv Linux PVR-150/350 capture card support-
bc Bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing arithmetic language. Dc is an interactive arbitrary precision stack based calculator-
deco Lightweight ncurses file manager
mc A user-friendly file manager and visual shel
joe Joe is a powerful, easy to use, modeless text editor
mtr Mtr is a network diagnostic tool that combines ping and traceroute into one program
vim A very powerfull text editor
ntp ISC NTP (Network Time Protocol) server and suite of tools.
client NTP Client which allow to syncronise your clock with another time server.ntp
openssl Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1)
openvpn OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution
diag Some tools to help you diagnose network and runtime problems on your mediabox
dnsd Embedded DNS Server
lsof Lsof (List Open Files) lists information about files that are open and running on a Linux/UNIX system.
lynx Lynx does not display any images,but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags.
perl Minimal Perl package based on 5.8.8 release.
telnet-server Embedded Telnet Server
ssh-server Embedded SSH Server and Client with support for v2 protocols
aumix This program adjusts the settings of an audio mixing device.
bzip2 Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high-quality data compressor that uses the same command line flags as gzip
dhcp2 A very light DHCP Server daemon
ncftp Ncftp is an improved FTP client. Ncftp's improvements include support for command line editing, command histories, recursive gets, automatic anonymous logins, and more
rsync Rsync uses a reliable algorithm to bring remote and host files into sync very quickly
tftpd A very light TFTP Server daemon
samba-client Applications for mounting network windows shares localy on a linux machine
wireless-tools A collection of tools to configure IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN cards
iptables Administration tool for IPv4 and IPv6 packet filtering and NAT
madwifi-tools A collection of tools to configure IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN cards using madwifi.org modules
ndiswrapper-tools ndiswrapper tools to install the windows version of the driver ( requires perl )
tcpdump A very powerfull analyzer for your network traffic
samba-server Samba server for interactivity between UNIX and windows. Also allows to access linux partitions from windows computers
ftp-server A very light FTP Server daemon
ltrace Tracks runtime library calls from dynamically linked executables.
mkdisk Format and install a new hard drive device on your system-
mysql-serve MySQL database server
strace Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process.-s
sysadmin-console System Administration (console). Allows to change users, http users properties, install or update iMedia packages
iproute IPRoute is a set of utilities used for advanced networkin
samba-tools Samba 3.0.22 misc tools
pcmcia-tools A collection of tools to configure and use pcmcia cards
vtun Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression and encryption.
cbq Class Based Traffic Control-
htb Hierarchical Based Traffic Control
usb USB support
usb-serial USB/Serial converter support
acp ACPI drivers and daemon for power management
bttv BTTV driver for BT878 video capture cards. This version uses V4L2 layer API.-
iptables-kernel IPTables/Netfilter kernel modules-
nl2511-wireless Kernel driver for NL-2511 Wireless MiniPCI card -
wistron-wireless ndiswrapper kernel driver for Wistron CM9 Atheros Wireless MiniPCI card (must also install ndiswrapper) –
madwifi madwifi standalone kernel driver support for Atheros based chipset cards-
ndiswrapper ndiswrapper standalone kernel driver (this driver doesn't include any network driver)-
sensors-cle266 Drivers for VIA CLE266 based motherboards used for monitoring your hardware-
ubiquiti-wireless ndiswrapper kernel driver for Ubiquiti Wireless MiniPCI cards (must also install ndiswrapper)-
watchcog Software watchdog kernel driver-
usb-hid USB Keyboard/Mouse support-
sensors-sis Drivers for SIS motherboards with IT87 chip used for monitoring your hardware-
  Ethernet TUN/TAP support- tun
nfs-filesystem Kernel drivers for nfs filesystems that will help you mount unix machines across your network
pcmcia-ide IDE support for PCMCIA/Yenta slots (EPIA MII)-
3com-network 3COM network cards drivers (includes typhoon, 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) Vortex/Boomerang )-
nforce-network NVidia NForce network cards drivers-
cbq Class Based Traffic Control-
acpi ACPI drivers and daemon for power management
bttv BTTV driver for BT878 video capture cards. This version uses V4L2 layer API
iptables-kernel IPTables/Netfilter kernel module
nl2511-wireless Kernel driver for NL-2511 Wireless MiniPCI card
madwifi madwifi standalone kernel driver support for Atheros based chipset cards
usb-storage USB and USB storage devices support (includes scsi disk support)
sensors-cle266 Drivers for VIA CLE266 based motherboards used for monitoring your hardware
ubiquiti-wireless ndiswrapper kernel driver for Ubiquiti Wireless MiniPCI cards (must also install ndiswrapper)
watchdog Software watchdog kernel driver
sensors-cis Drivers for SIS motherboards with IT87 chip used for monitoring your hardware
tun Ethernet TUN/TAP support
nfs-filesystem Kernel drivers for nfs filesystems that will help you mount unix machines across your network
pcmcia-ide IDE support for PCMCIA/Yenta slots (EPIA MII)
cbq Class Based Traffic Control
usb2 USB 2 support
wireless Wistron CM9 Atheros Wireless MiniPCI driver-common/i686/wistron
ndiswrapper ndiswrapper standalone kernel driver (this driver doesn't include any network driver)
usb-storage USB and USB storage devices support (includes scsi disk support)