Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:12:39 +0100 From: Richard Kaestner <richard.kaestner@ycn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com> Subject: Re: VIA Tech Mini-ITX Message-ID: <200312271112.39708.richard.kaestner@ycn.com> In-Reply-To: <redirect-200124@vector01.rfk.priv> References: <1072472355.3feca12314771@vmail.3dresearch.com> <200312262206.51975@harrymail> <redirect-200124@vector01.rfk.priv>
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On Friday 26 December 2003 22:39, Marc Wiz wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:06:43PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > > On Friday 26 December 2003 21:59, Anclo wrote: > > > I'm considering to build a small VIA Tech Mini-ITX system using the C3 > > > 800 MHz motherboard/CPU or the Eden 533 MHz. This box would serve as a > > > gateway/router. > > > > > > Has anyone have experience with VIA Tech Mini-ITX motherboards? I'd > > > like to use it to run 4.9-RELEASE. > > > > > > Any advice would be appreciated - I'd hate to find out that there is no > > > FreeBSD driver for the built-in network card... > > > > I'm using a older C3 800 miniITX without any problem. > > AFAIK even the latest miniITX has the "VIA Rhine" chipset for ethernet. > > Also the PLE266 should work, but of course you cannot use the mpeg2 > > decoder. Don't know any OS which could make use of it. > > There are patches for Linux to use the hardware MPEG-2 decoder. > > Check out http://www.linitx.org > > I have the board with the 1 Ghz chip but haven't tried FreeBSD yet. works fine - X gives (still) some problems > > Marc -- Mit freundliche Gruessen Richard Kaestner mailto:richard.kaestner@ycn.com
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