Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:37:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> Cc: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: VIA EPIA ITX MoBo Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209260736110.2979-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20020925040704.T14560-100000@voo.doo.net>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Marc Schneiders wrote: > 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/ > > Exactly what type of chip is the onboard AGP video? This would make an excellent, quiet, low-cost replacememnt for my Mom's PC. Good thing she doesn't log out of KDE, it takes about 10 minutes to restart hehe ... JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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