[haiku] Re: AMD Geode

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Fredrik Modèen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How well does Haiku works on a Geode LX800?
>
> I know about the audio problem and ticket 2132.
>
> alix3d3 looks realy good.
> http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm
>
>
> http://www.alix-box.info/wiki/index.php/ALIX.3D3_(1_LAN%2C_2_miniPCI%2C_LX800%2C_USB%2C_VGA%2C_audio%2C_Award_BIOS)<http://www.alix-box.info/wiki/index.php/ALIX.3D3_%281_LAN%2C_2_miniPCI%2C_LX800%2C_USB%2C_VGA%2C_audio%2C_Award_BIOS%29>
> http://www.twam.info/category/hardware/alix
>
>
> --
> MVH
> Fredrik Modèen
>
>
Jérôme has gotten the geode driver pretty far but we're still not getting
audio on the board I have.  I thrashed my build PC so can"t test the current
status to see if anything's changed.  Hopefully I'll get time to rebuild it
soon.  Maybe since only a few have the geode audio it could be added to the
prebuilt alpha images, that might allow for easier  testing on more boards.
http://www.globalamericaninc.com/Motherboards-Nano-ITX-AMD/c244_341_476/p2807860/2807860_-_Nano-ITX_Motherboard_with_ULV_Embedded_FANLESS_AMD_Geode_LX800_533_MHz_Processor_with_64K_L1_and_128K_L2_Cache_and_FSB_133_MHz/product_info.html
I have had an alix3d2 which is one without video and was able to run Haiku
on it, had to log in over the network to see what I was typing though.  I
toasted the bios setup on it, tip don't select to turn off serial output on
a device where you can't see what you are doing with it off, since you may
not be able to ever turn it back on...  The cool thing about the alix boards
is they come with 2 mini PCI sockets, so you can add in a wireless card, a
GPS card, or serial card or whatever miniPCI card you can find,  Although
there's no serial driver for Haiku yet, so the GPS card won't do you much
good yet.
http://www.globalamericaninc.com/Mini_PCI_Modules/c55/index.html
What's nice is you can use the IDE SSD modules or boot from a CF card:
http://ec.transcendusa.com/product/ItemDetail.asp?ItemID=TS4GDOM44H-S
and since the geode needs no fans there's no noise.
-scottmc

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