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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:32:23 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ARM based terminal?
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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