From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nigel Roles" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: RE: [9fans] PXE boot? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 16:45:34 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c13b13b2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu wrote: > rminnich@lanl.gov suggests: > >> andrey, you can get 1 GHZ M-EPIA cards for $100, run linuxbios, put >> 9load in flash, and forget etherboot. > > A few months ago when similar motherboards were mentioned, > nigel@9fs.org said: > >> Beware the Via C3 Eden ITX motherboard. Neither the ethernet, vga, >> or audio are supported. >> >> I have (partial) solutions. > > Nigel, if you're reading this can you elaborate on your solutions? > > -- Richard It all depends on the chipset used. Some of the faster boards have better devices. On my board, I have Via's own ethernet (Rhine II), a trident cyber type vga, and Via's own audio. I have a Rhine II driver, but there is enough fud on the FreeBSD mailing lists about the reliability of the silicon and the documentation is so poor I don't feel very confident about the driver. I struggled for a long time with the video without getting it to work at high resolutions, so have parked it for a bit. The Plan 9 audio interface only supports soundblaster, and there is no higher level interface to allow other styles, a la devether.c. The Via audio pretends to be soundblaster pro, but actually only has the registers. Instead, the driver catches accesses to the registers and maps it to the real PCI device. Again, I did some work on this, but have stopped for now.