Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 04:19:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> To: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: VIA EPIA ITX MoBo Message-ID: <20020925040704.T14560-100000@voo.doo.net> In-Reply-To: <D83362E9-D028-11D6-AD8A-00039384AB84@stevenfettig.com>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, at 20:48 [=GMT-0500], Steve Fettig wrote: > I have two coming this week slated for mini-backup machines. I can post > how things go as far as the installation and usage once I have the > machines running - if people are interested. Because the boards are > designed to run x86 OS's and there have been many success stories > regarding running Windows, I don't imagine there will be any problems, > per se. The only issue is that the firewire port will not be used under > FreeBSD because of current lack of support and I don't know about the > tv-out - whether that is "hardware" based - i.e. requires no drivers or > not. Neither are really of concern to me - I would enjoy use of the > firewire port, but I'll wait... Thanks for your reply! I got one myself in the mean time, well today. It works fine (I have the 800 MHz with fan) as far as IDE, LAN (built in vr device) and graphics are concerned. I haven't tested TV-out, Audio or USB. The Board boots from everything, if the options in the CMOS are anything to go by. From CDROM (4.1) it did, and also from an old harddisk with 4.4 stable on it, it ran immediately with generic kernel. There is no floppy connector. But what can one expect for approx. $125? Including everything, CPU (VIA Centauer 800 MHz), LAN, Audio, TV-out. All needed additionally is RAM and some bootmedium. And a case, which I haven't found yet, one that I like and isn't too expensive, relatively. Accepts up to 1 GB of RAM (PC 100/133). So really a nice thing for a cheap little webserver/nameserver that runs everything in memory? Oh, I didn't see firewire on mine. May be my stupidity. I have never used it before. Lots of info at http://www.mini-itx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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