Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:34:33 +0200 From: "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.de> To: junkmail@sensewave.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EPIA ME-6000 Message-ID: <16768.59225.458426.227697@hyde.home.loc> In-Reply-To: <20041028055808.GA837@tyven.la3sg.net> References: <16768.18838.460065.189523@hyde.home.loc> <20041028055808.GA837@tyven.la3sg.net>
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Kjell Midtseter writes: > 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 You mean 5.3, don't you? The M-6000's video chip works flawlessly with Xorg. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de
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