Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-11 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't understand why these companies don't just include sources for their X drivers, it would make life so much easier. Usually it's because they (wrongly) think it will protect their trade secrets from competitors. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-10 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Monday 10 February 2003 21:51, Joe O a écrit : If the linux XFree86 4.x driver was correctly written you should be able to dump it into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers and use it. One of the goals with XFree86 4.x was that the X server modules be OS independent. Indeed, that's how I got

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
I tried that. It got close. *very* close to running, but the via driver has two dependancies on libddmpeg (which is also supplied on the CD). Unfortunately libddmpeg depends on libc.so.6. I can shim the two dependancies into via_drv.o but the via driver still tries to load

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-10 Thread Darryl Okahata
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Summary: EPIA M 9000 17-25W EPIA M E600016-22W EPIA 80011-20W EPIA 5000 9-15W (5W idle, 15W playing DVD) (this is non-inclusive of any hard drives)

Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
Firewire Another EPIA M 9000 update. The built-in firewire works flawlessly under FreeBSD 4.x (firewire.ko and sbp.ko modules). When I connect up a firewire HD I get 30MB/s+ out of it. The same HD has a USB2.0 connector but for some reason I

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
An additional note on the M 9000. I have not been able to get X11 to run on it yet. It uses a chipset that X doesn't seem to understand (beyond basic VGA modes). -Matt : Firewire : :Another EPIA M