From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 02:31:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3C616A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gallium.webpack.hosteurope.de (gallium.one-2-one.net [217.115.142.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5283943D45 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:31:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nospam@plea.se) Received: from plea.se (pD958F4F2.dip.t-dialin.net [217.88.244.242]) (authenticated)i16AVH726790 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:31:17 +0100 Message-ID: <40236CFE.8090409@plea.se> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:31:26 +0100 From: Holger Hoffmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: via EPIA motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:31:21 -0000 > I would like to know if some of you have interesting experiences and > comments about these boards. I've got two and I _love_ them. A 500Mhz Version is my fileserver running Linux (subject to change *g*) and a 800MHz Version is my FreeBSD "development" box (I play with it). > My main purpose is to setup a small, fanless multimedia playback freebsd > box, so any piece of info is valuable (driver support, computational > power, tv-output problems, ...) Did that with the 500Mhz box, playing DivX was ok but definitely not good. I have to admit that I used a "quick and dirty" approach and took advantage of X and xine/mplayer instead of looking for stuff that e.g. might work without X neither did I tweak any parameters or switched off deamons I didn't need. So I guess you _can_ make it run faster/smoother/better than I did almost "out of the box". Problems: read the handbook, took me almost a day to figure out why TV-out wasn't working when I saw that you have to change a jumper so that the plug changes from SPIF (or whatever) sound to TV-out. I used the video drivers provided by VIA for X Free on (I think) Red Hat Linux without any problems. HTH! Holger