[9fans] Revo L80

[Riddler <riddler876@gmail.com>]

Hey guys,

I was going to sit down and build my raspberry pi file-server today
but I've just came into ownership of an Acer Revo L80. I've been given
it for free because it is broken. After the usual diagnostics it looks
like the RAM chip is dead >~400MB.

I'm thinking this may make a good CPU/Auth/File-server instead of the
pi. I'm willing to spend the £40 buying a new RAM chip if it looks
like it will work.

To that end I thought I'd throw out some of the specs here and see if
anyone spots any obvious problems, or has any useful experience with
any of the hardware.


Acer Revo l80
CPU: Intel Duel-Core 4-Thread i3-2377M (I would still use 32bit plan9)
USB: both 2.0 and 3.0 ports
Ethernet: Atheros AR5B22 Wireless
Graphics: Intel-graphics 4000

I'm aware wireless can be a problem but I've got a wireless to
Ethernet bridge I picked up for the pi that I can use. Haven't yet
found out the the wired Ethernet cards model.

My main concern is the graphics, it looks like it's using the CPU
onboad graphics processor. I don't know myself what problems (if any)
are associated with driving the CPU/GPU hybrids.