[9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[ron minnich]

straight from my dining room table.

See http://www.9grid.org, follow the link to the news.

ron

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[Russ Cox]

> See http://www.9grid.org, follow the link to the news.

that's very cool.  congratulations.
what's the video card on those things like?
i'm tempted to set up that fanless home terminal
i've always wanted.

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[ron minnich]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Russ Cox wrote:

> what's the video card on those things like?

It's a pretty standard slow video, built in to the chipset. Probably fine
for Plan 9 but you'll have to write a driver I suppose.

You could try one of the M10000 boards, google travla and see if there is
something reasonable. jmk probably knows more than I do about video at
this point.

> i'm tempted to set up that fanless home terminal i've always wanted.

I'd love to see it.

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[matt]

Mine has a PCI slot with a riser so you can fit any PCI vga card you like

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[Derek Fawcus]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:27:29PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> what's the video card on those things like?

depends upon which EPIA board is being used.

If it's the old one it uses the VIA VT8601A (Apollo PLE133) chipset,  which
has a Trident VGA built in (Blade 3D?).

If it's one of the newer models,  then it has a S3 savage derived chipset.

Both have support in XFree86 if you want to try and scrounge up some code :-)

Now if I ever get around to building up a plan 9 system here,  I've been
intending to use the following as a terminal:

   http://linitx.com/shop/product_info.php/cPath/14/products_id/160
   http://www.lex.com.tw/cv860a.htm

   Fanless,  silent,  small.

DF

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[kiwane]

>    Fanless,  silent,  small.

Can you run one of these EPIA machines with a hard disk in it,
and still fan less?

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[Derek Fawcus]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:28:34PM +0900, kiwane@mac.com wrote:
> >    Fanless,  silent,  small.
>
> Can you run one of these EPIA machines with a hard disk in it,
> and still fan less?

Yes.  It all depends upon the speed (and hence heat generated) by the disk.

The machine I pointed to comes supplied with a bracket to mount a laptop
style h/d internaly.

DF

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[ron minnich]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Derek Fawcus wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:28:34PM +0900, kiwane@mac.com wrote:
> > >    Fanless,  silent,  small.
> >
> > Can you run one of these EPIA machines with a hard disk in it,
> > and still fan less?
>
> Yes.  It all depends upon the speed (and hence heat generated) by the disk.
>
> The machine I pointed to comes supplied with a bracket to mount a laptop
> style h/d internaly.

Laptop drives are designed for a hostile heat environment, and on the m100
they are mounted to the top of the case: the whole case is a heat sink for
the drive. You probably don't need a fan.

ron

Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...

[Rasputin]

* Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com> [1149 13:49]:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:27:29PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > what's the video card on those things like?
>
> depends upon which EPIA board is being used.
>
> If it's the old one it uses the VIA VT8601A (Apollo PLE133) chipset,  which
> has a Trident VGA built in (Blade 3D?).
>
> If it's one of the newer models,  then it has a S3 savage derived chipset.
>
> Both have support in XFree86 if you want to try and scrounge up some code :-)

Even the X support is a bit crappy, though (for Tridents at least).

But the EPIA boards have a PCI slot (although a minibox case is too
small to hold a card), so just fit something supported...

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