From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] ARM based terminal?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:32:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66494ef8c51f09dacc55a655f74d2670@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bc818e4eab2697f8d1f1a4a1e602b76@gandalf.orthanc.ca>
On Fri Jan 28 12:36:48 EST 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > There are some newish fanless intel mini-itx motherboards about, anyone
> > had one of these boot plan9? I had poor results from the previous generation
> > due to unhelpful BIOS.
>
> Try to get your hands on a C3-based board. They tend to predate much of
> the ACPI crap that has infested the BIOS space these days.
>
> I'm typing this on a PXE-booted EPIA-EK system with a 1GHz C3 CPU.
> While this particular system has a fan on the CPU heatsink, it *never*
> turns on. My display runs at 1920x1080x16 (VESA mode).
intel branded motherboards tend to be problematic.
all the supermicro atom boards i've tried work well
as terminals.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-28 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 14:26 Steve Simon
2011-01-27 14:50 ` Christian Neukirchen
2011-01-27 15:03 ` Richard Miller
2011-01-27 15:14 ` Steve Simon
2011-01-28 17:35 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-01-28 18:32 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-01-27 16:19 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-27 16:25 ` Steve Simon
2011-01-27 17:00 ` Jeff Sickel
2011-01-27 17:06 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 22:14 ` geoff
2011-01-27 22:31 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 23:29 ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-28 0:01 ` Nick LaForge
2011-01-28 1:28 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28 16:12 ` Steve Simon
2011-01-28 18:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 19:26 ` smiley
2011-01-27 19:34 ` John Floren
2011-01-27 20:29 ` Nick LaForge
2011-01-27 20:50 ` Nick LaForge
2011-02-01 17:17 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-02-01 19:23 ` Nick LaForge
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