From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 05:58:14 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 89E0316A4D0 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:58:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tyven.la3sg.net (la3sg.net [217.13.29.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D1943D31 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:58:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tyven@tyven.la3sg.net) Received: from tyven.la3sg.net (tyven@localhost.la3sg.net [127.0.0.1]) by tyven.la3sg.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9S5w9iI002428; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:58:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tyven@tyven.la3sg.net) Received: (from tyven@localhost) by tyven.la3sg.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9S5w8Kr002427; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:58:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tyven) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:58:08 +0200 From: Kjell Midtseter To: "Walter C. Pelissero" Message-ID: <20041028055808.GA837@tyven.la3sg.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Walter C. Pelissero" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <16768.18838.460065.189523@hyde.home.loc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16768.18838.460065.189523@hyde.home.loc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EPIA ME-6000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: junkmail@sensewave.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:58:14 -0000 On Thursday, 28 October 2004 at 3:21:26 +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > 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? I am running 6.3 on a M-10000 without any problems except that there are no X-11 support for the 'vga' chip so I can not run a windows manager Kjell > > -- > walter pelissero > http://www.pelissero.de