I worked on this after receiving my EFIKA motherboard yesterday: Local Store: 1. Philips D3 speakers 2. Samsung 80GB HD 2.5 3. ATI 9250 graphics card (from Pegasos ODW)
Hooked up to the Viewsonic G90f monitor... Note: I got the Emerek XGI Volaris V5 AGP graphics card ($60 USD) - you can get the Volaris V3 for about $25 USD on the Net One of the things was the transient heat from the drive and motherboard. I was using passive cooling, but experience says always keep that small cooling fan nearby. Never hurts. The parts to get the EFIKA going can be done with spare parts from an old computer with an AGP/PCI (3.3v) graphics card and power supply. Main thing was getting the notebook HD or you can use a USB drive. XGI Volari cards like the Volari V5 are available at most major US electronic stores. I basically found a standard cell box size of these dimensions: ( 2 1/4 (h) x 5 1/2 (w) x 7 3/4 in. (l)). This came out nicely to house the EFIKA in various travel and mobile situations. The EFIKA motherboard is great. Small and simple interface layout. The notebook HD has metals mounts onthe motherboard to stay away from the lower chips. Also, make sure the video card doesn't have large cooling units on the graphics chip. Just keep that in thought. Otherwise, the OpenSolaris piece. I am hoping we can refine this with a B53 or higher kernel (based on SXCR b53 as a minimum). Definitely, work can be done for 2D solutions but for GPS and Avionics work we need a bit of 3D graphics to spice things up... Ken Mays This message posted from opensolaris.org
