VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard + case?

[Tim Writer]

William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:52:16AM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> > William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > > EPIA (Fanless)
> > > VIA C3 600 Mhz CPU
> > > AGP VGA w/ TV out
> > > onboard sound
> > > Ethernet card
> > > 1 PCI, 2 Dimm, 2 USB, 2 ATA100IDE
> > > $149
> > 
> > Unless you have mimimal requirements, don't get this one.  There's no
> > XFree86 DRI/DRM support nor MPEG2 acceleration so 3D graphics and
> > video streaming perform badly.
> > 
> > > V10000A (Bulk)
> > > VIA C3 1Ghz CPU
> > > onboard VGA
> > > onboard Sound
> > > Ethernet
> > > 2 Dimm, 1 PCI, 2 USB, 2 ATA100 IDE, 1 FDD
> > > $139
> > 
> > Same here I think, although it will be slightly better with the faster
> > CPU.
> > 
> > The M series boards don't have these limitations.
> 
> Hmm, from what I've read, original EPIA has PLE133 chipset and EPIA-M
> has CLE266 chipset which does hardware MPEG-2 decoding.  Though, I don't
> know whether it has to be "turned on" to kick in.

It has to be turned on.  VIA has a driver but I think it's binary only.

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