Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:31:26 +0100 From: Holger Hoffmann <nospam@plea.se> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: via EPIA motherboard Message-ID: <40236CFE.8090409@plea.se> In-Reply-To: <D7E6ECE7-5886-11D8-8D87-0030654D97EC@patpro.net> References: <D7E6ECE7-5886-11D8-8D87-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>
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> 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
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