From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 07:18:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A367F16A4BF for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pip.lemonia.org (82-32-25-136.cable.ubr04.azte.blueyonder.co.uk [82.32.25.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D3044053 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lemon@aldigital.co.uk) Received: (qmail 63503 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2003 14:16:13 -0000 Received: from maybe.avalon (HELO aldigital.co.uk) (192.168.237.3) by yes.avalon with SMTP; 25 Sep 2003 14:16:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3F72F919.9040104@aldigital.co.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:18:01 +0100 From: lemon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030902 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clifton Royston References: <20030924123003.B23100@tikitechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <20030924123003.B23100@tikitechnologies.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA EPIA-M10000 board "just works" with FreeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:18:17 -0000 Clifton Royston wrote: > For anyone who's interested, I've been running FreeBSD 4.8 on the > EPIA-10000M mini-ITX for at least a couple months now; it's available > for as little as $160 with CPU + motherboard + case + p/s bought > integrated as the FIC Falcon CR53, and there's a surprising amount of > I/O integrated onboard. For anybody who's looking to build cheap but > reasonably powerful servers or desktop machines, this looks like a > winner. seconded - i'm hugely chuffed with mine, it runs really quiet. > > I haven't run any real benchmarks, but in terms of "feel" it might be > equivalent to maybe a 500-600MHz PIII. The total server parts list ran > about $350 with shipping, including 7200rpm IDE drive and a 2nd 100BT > card (Linksys LNE100TX.) I haven't tried X or the sound capabilities so > I'm not sure how suitable it would be for a desktop; I also haven't > tested whether the IEEE-1394 would work under FreeBSD. For a low-end > server, though, it's pretty nice, and moderately quiet too. XFree86 is ok under x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap's via code. general desktop performance is fine. sound works too, y'normal pcm(4). i've had no joy using the integrated "castlerock" mpeg2 decoder in the graphics chipset, and indeed mplayer threw a hissy fit with it. given the youth of the X stuff, this is likely to get better. > > The motherboard includes integrated CPU, 1 DDR slot, 4 USB, 2 serial, > 1 parallel I/O, 2 IEEE-1394, floppy port, dual IDE, SVGA out + SVHS TV > out, 10/100 LAN, and 1 PCI. The IDE interface works at ATA133 under > FreeBSD 4.8; the VIA/Realtek ethernet is recognized as vr0. The CPU > integrated on the motherboard is a 1GHz VIA C3, an IDT descendant - the > newer "Nehemiah" core which is claimed to have better instructions per > clock than the older VIA cores. > > Matt Dillon posted about the earlier EPIA boards a while back, so I > thought I'd add a note that this one also works well. > > -- Clifton, not a VIA salesrep > me neither! Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Clifton Royston writes: > > For anyone who's interested, I've been running FreeBSD 4.8 on the > > EPIA-10000M mini-ITX for at least a couple months now; it's > > available > > Cool! Have you measured the power consumption? if i find a suitable gizmo, i'll do so :) cheers, l. -- lemon@aldigital.co.uk +44 020 8742 0755 http://www.aldigital.co.uk/ system administrivia c6 h8 o7 http://www.thebunker.net/