EPIA ME-6000

[Kjell Midtseter]

On Thursday, 28 October 2004 at 14:21:32 +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
> 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?
Sorry, R5.3RC1
> My M-6000's video chip works flawlessly with Xorg.
What driver did you specify in the Device Secton of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
Kjell