From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 04:21:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AC21065672 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 04:21:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from mail-px0-f192.google.com (mail-px0-f192.google.com [209.85.216.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94528FC19 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 04:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi30 with SMTP id 30so2447677pxi.7 for ; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:21:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.4.42 with SMTP id 42mr407374wfd.109.1254542233125; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:57:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Olivier Gautherot Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:56:53 -0500 Message-ID: To: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 on an Atom n330 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:21:17 -0000 Hi folks! For the newbies wishing to set up a cheap machine with reasonable power consumption, I can suggest the Atom processor. I bought one recently (the Intel D945GCLF2) and it performs quite well compared to my previous C3-based VIA board. I have not got round to try the sound yet and still share the IDE port between a HD and a DVD drive but the results are really promising. Note: the first set up requires a bit of fiddling around to get the system to start: there seems to be something weird with either IDE controller (need to disable the SMART mode) or the graphics memory (yes, it is shared with the system) but, all in all, it's a decent investment for a small server. I'll drop a line if something goes wrong but currently it's running happily 5 compiles in parallel... Cheers -- Olivier Gautherot olivier@gautherot.net