Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:35:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Ed Hall <edhall@weirdnoise.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard Message-ID: <200306100235.h5A2ZbII055434@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200306100045.h5A0jeV0016749@screech.weirdnoise.com>
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:> Note that I'm most interested in the EPIA *M* boards, the newer ones with
:> USB 2.0, Firewire and hardware MPEG decoding (not that I'll be using
:> that...), rather than the original EPIA.
:
:This reminds me of one other thing: I'm using still using the vendor-supplied
:Linux X11 driver that Matt Dillion hacked up for X. Xfree86 is now supposed
:to support the "Castlerock" video chip, but I've not heard one way or the
:other as to whether it works under FreeBSD.
It does, but you may need to do a little hacking: See the second URL.
The development version of XFree86 has a driver but the driver appears
to generate a delay by waiting for (my guess) some sort of timer tick
or vertical retrace flip bit or something like that, and it locks up.
If the code is replaced with a usleep() and you use Option "SWCursor"
things work fine.
http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/epia/review.html
http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/index.html
Note that you still can't set random display resolutions. Only the
resolutions supported by the VIA bios are supported... which is most,
but not weird resolutions like 1600x1024.
-Matt
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