EPIA ME-6000

[Walter C. Pelissero]

Kjell Midtseter writes:
 > On Thursday, 28 October 2004 at  3:21:26 +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
 > > I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3 on a Via EPIA ME-6000, but there are
 > > still a couple of things that don't work.
 > > 
 > > First.  The PXE loading process is quite slow because it gets stuck
 > > for a half a minute here and there while loading the KLD modules.  No
 > > network activity while the rotating bar on the screen freezes.  I
 > > tried to work around this problem compiling a monolithic kernel, but
 > > still the PXE has to load at least three files (acpi.ko, loader.conf,
 > > kernel), giving the chance to delay the boot.  I don't know if this is
 > > a problem related to the PXE rom or to pxeboot.
 > > 
 > > The second problem is the sound.  The device is recognised and the
 > > via8233 driver is properly loaded; 12 dsp devices appear in /dev
 > > (dsp0.[0-5] and dspW0.[0-5]) and the user programs work as nothing was
 > > wrong, unfortunately no sound is produced.
 > > 
 > > Is there anyone who has succeeded to run FreeBSD on one of these cute
 > > Mini-ITX?
 > I am running 6.3 on a M-10000 without any problems except that there
 > are no X-11 support for the 'vga' chip so I can not run a windows manager

You mean 5.3, don't you?
The M-6000's video chip works flawlessly with Xorg.

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walter pelissero
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