From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 01:23:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF76E16A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:23:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail.tiscali.de (relay1.tiscali.de [62.26.116.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACE543D5E for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:23:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wcp@pelissero.de) Received: from hyde.home.loc (62.246.21.144) by webmail.tiscali.de (6.7.019) id 41777EFE0030CDCA for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:23:21 +0200 Received: from hyde.home.loc (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hyde.home.loc (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9S1MMqF066270 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:22:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp@hyde.home.loc) Received: (from wcp@localhost) by hyde.home.loc (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9S1LQU3066198; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:21:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp) From: "Walter C. Pelissero" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16768.18838.460065.189523@hyde.home.loc> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:21:26 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.16 under Emacs 21.3.50.1 X-Attribution: WP X-For-Spammers: blacklistme@pelissero.de X-MArch-Archive-Date: 2004-10-28 03:22:23 X-MArch-Archive-ID: 28619 Subject: EPIA ME-6000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: walter@pelissero.de List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:23:24 -0000 I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3 on a Via EPIA ME-6000, but there are still a couple of things that don't work. First. The PXE loading process is quite slow because it gets stuck for a half a minute here and there while loading the KLD modules. No network activity while the rotating bar on the screen freezes. I tried to work around this problem compiling a monolithic kernel, but still the PXE has to load at least three files (acpi.ko, loader.conf, kernel), giving the chance to delay the boot. I don't know if this is a problem related to the PXE rom or to pxeboot. The second problem is the sound. The device is recognised and the via8233 driver is properly loaded; 12 dsp devices appear in /dev (dsp0.[0-5] and dspW0.[0-5]) and the user programs work as nothing was wrong, unfortunately no sound is produced. Is there anyone who has succeeded to run FreeBSD on one of these cute Mini-ITX? -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de