On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Vincent Delporte wrote:
At 10:09 11/02/2007 -0500, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Check the processor spec. carefully. [...] Also make sure you compile
asterisk for an i586
OK, I'll make sure it has enough cache and I'll recompile the code myself.
I'm thinking of getting an ML 8000
http://via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=301
.
At 10:09 11/02/2007 -0500, Manny A. Wise wrote:
I did, and I was NOT happy with the results... Mini-itx have a serious
problems with IRQ sharing... I am happily using a embeded system now, but
the FXO and FXS have to be external.
Those boards only come with one PCI slot. Do you mean it could share an IRQ
with some embedded component like the video card?
On the CN1000 boards I'm using, the PCI slot seems tobe locked to IRQ10.
The on-board USB hardware also seems to be wired to IRQ 10 )-:
Using the BIOS to "reserve" IRQ 10 caused the on-board USB hardware to
move to IRQ5 on the old VIA 533MHz boards I use for R&D, but not on the
new CN1000 boards. You'll need to experiment with this on the EX board...
So I disable the on-board USB device, and have a custom compiled kernel
that doesn't include USB drivers.
However, on a test board, I did leave USB enabled with a kernel that
supproted USB just to test - an - well - it "just works" - however I only
planned to use USB to perform an upgrade, so the times it would be in-use
would be so minimal as to (hopefully) not have an issue.
On an older 533MHz board:
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 48124962 XT-PIC timer
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
7: 1 XT-PIC acpi
8: 4 XT-PIC rtc
11: 75120 XT-PIC eth0
12: 48084364 XT-PIC wctdm
14: 2763 XT-PIC ide0
15: 5373 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
$ /sbin/zttest
Opened pseudo zap interface, measuring accuracy...
...
--- Results after 42 passes ---
Best: 100.000000 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.995350
BTW, in this age of big USB drive, I don't really nee a DVD/CDRW combo. Does
someone know if the Via motherboards (at least the ML series) supports
booting off a USB drive, so I can use this to start Linux and fetch install
files from an FTP server?
I've not tried it (I boot them off a flash IDE device I create on a host
system), but can't you just temporarily plug in a CD drive to do the
install (onto a local IDE/SATA drive) then unplug it & put the lid back
on? Thats how I build some of my servers... (Although the CD drive is an
IDE drive these days for speed...)
Gordon
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