Re: Advice or experience with VIA epia h/w?

[Nico Meijer <lists@familiemeijer.org>]

Hi Dan,

> I'm interested in replacing my system, and I've been looking at 
> getting  a system based on a VIA epia motherboard. I'm curious if 
> anyone could  share some advice or any good or bad experience with 
> this hardware. 

I have a few V10000's running 3.6 just dandy. All obstacles I have had 
running these boards have always been either memory or disk related, so 
I'm very happy with these boards. A `make build` takes about two hours 
on my development box.

Dunno about your other questions (try mini-itx.com?), but here's a dmesg 
just for giggles.

Bye... Nico

OpenBSD 3.6-stable (GENERIC) #4: Sat Jan 15 22:59:22 CET 2005
    root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: VIA Nehemiah ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 1 GHz
cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE
cpu0: RNG
real mem  = 528003072 (515628K)
avail mem = 474861568 (463732K)
using 4278 buffers containing 26501120 bytes (25880K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(e1) BIOS, date 03/27/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 
0xfb150
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdf94
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf20/112 (5 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 10 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT8231 ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8601 PCI" rev 0x05
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT82C601 AGP" rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Trident CyberBlade i1" rev 0x6a
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8231 ISA" rev 0x10
pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA100, 
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to 
compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ExcelStor Technology J680>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 78533MB, 160836480 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x1e: irq 10
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 17 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x1e: irq 10
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
viaenv0 at pci0 dev 17 function 4 "VIA VT8231 PMG" rev 0x10
vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x51: irq 11 address 
00:40:63:c9:b7:2e
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0032, rev. 5
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
biomask f76d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
WARNING: / was not properly unmounted

^--- The power supply died last night... ;-)