I've got an 810e here, and it's not worth a damn, can't get X to work with
or without the aperture module, yet it works fine with agpgart under Linux,
but no sound there, so I can have X with no Sound and Linux, or No X with
sound and NetBSD, seems I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't  =]

                --Shawn


----- Original Message -----
From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: "Andy Ball" <ball@cyberspace.org>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: i810e and NetBSD


> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:34:05PM -0500, Andy Ball wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > There's been quite a bit of discussion here lately about
> > hardware to run NetBSD on.  Some of it I'd seen before and
> > some I hadn't.  In either case, I found it interesting to
> > read about the hardware from a NetBSD perspective, since
> > that has become my preferred system software.
> >
> > A lot of people have been asking me lately to build machines
> > for them, so I've started looking at components.  One of the
> > mainboards that looks promising is FIC FW37 mATX, Socket370.
> > I've never built a machine with the Intel 810e chipset
> > before, and would welcome people's input as to it's
> > suitability.
>
> I have a i810 at home (I'm not sure if it's a 810 or 810e), and I'm really
> happy with it. I can get more than 100MB/s out of the disks (5 IDE disks,
> each connected to its own PCIIDE controller :). The display works for me,
> with 3.3.6 and without the aperture driver, but this is really dependant
on
> the BIOS. I suspect it'll work for you too, because of this "4Mb SDRAM".
> I also got it running on other 810 motherboard where the aperture driver
is
> required, though :)
> Audio isn't very good, it can only do 48Khz.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
>