Re: VIA EPIA-M10000 board "just works" with FreeBSD 4.8

From: lemon (lemon_at_aldigital.co.uk)
Date: 09/25/03

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    Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:18:01 +0100
To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>

    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. 

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