From: Daniel Martini (dmartiniuni-hohenheim.de)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 14:07:15 CST

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Hello all,

I plan on shopping for a VIA Epia CL6000 motherboard (I need a fanless,
low power consumption OpenBSD system mainly for desktop usage (TeX,
mutt, small PostgreSQL database, KDE). However -- as I know that there
are probably several users of this board on the list -- before I go
spending my money, I need some enlightenment about how well (or not)
OpenBSD works on the hardware.

What I already found out from the supported hardware list, from browsing
the mailing lists and googling is this:

- IDE works (the VIA VT8235 is in the supported devices list)
- audio seems to work (via the auvia driver, this was on the list a
  short while ago)
- the 2 10/100 ethernet connectors seem to work (the vr manpage states
  the VT6105 is supported)
- X has issues, the chip is not yet supported, but it works with the
  VESA driver
- The standard things -- usb, com, parports -- work. Firewire
  is not that important for me.

Can somebody confirm these points / comment on issues with that?

Additional questions, for which I have not yet found a definitive answer:
Do apm and the hardware monitoring sensors work with OpenBSD?

There's information out there, that there is a driver for X for the
CLE266 graphics in cvs (at 4.3.99.2 or something). Did anyone have
success, compiling and running this driver with the standard XFree86 4.3
on OpenBSD?

And finally, are there any mobo alternatives with a similar feature set?
(Now that Dale Rahn has ported OpenBSD to the Pegasos PPC board, I also
took this into account, however the information about the status of his
work is yet a bit sparse, e.g., if it will make it into the official
OpenBSD tree).

Thanks in advance and regards,
Daniel

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