VIA EPIA ITX motherboard?

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Hello everyone,

Has anyone tried QNX RTP out on the EPIA ITX
motherboard from VIA ?

I’m wondering about getting one to use in
my electric Mini pickup project…
… to use for collecting data on the batteries,
playing MP3’s, etc.

Specs:

CPU 800 MHz
VIA VT8601/VT8231 chipset
PC133 SDRAM
VIA VT6103 Ethernet
VIA VT1612A sound ( AC97 )
dual UDMA100 IDE
Onboard Trident Blade 3D graphics
USB, 16550 serial, PS2 mouse & keyboard, etc.

I tried looking at the supported hardware pages,
but couldn’t see any mention of the graphics or
LAN chipsets.

Thanks,


Richard Bebbington

Electric Mini pickup
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/electric.mini/

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richard@gxl.co.uk sed in <3DB953F5.5010505@gxl.co.uk>

Has anyone tried QNX RTP out on the EPIA ITX

Network uses devn-via-rhine
Builtin Graphics confined to vesa
Builtin Audio seems unsupported (VT8233 driver works?)

So you (yes you) must write the device driver if you don’t want
to put anything into the single PCI slot.

Be sure to disable BIOS cache; it intermittently screws on QNX if enabled

kabe

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<kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> wrote in message news:apddee$e7l$1@inn.qnx.com…

richard@gxl.co.uk > sed in <> 3DB953F5.5010505@gxl.co.uk

Has anyone tried QNX RTP out on the EPIA ITX

Network uses devn-via-rhine
Builtin Graphics confined to vesa
Builtin Audio seems unsupported (VT8233 driver works?)

I heard this one is working
http://mike.qnx.org.ru/vt8233/vt8233-bin-rc5.tar.gz
Contact to Mike Gorchak for details.
Eduard.

So you (yes you) must write the device driver if you don’t want
to put anything into the single PCI slot.

Be sure to disable BIOS cache; it intermittently screws on QNX if enabled

kabe

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I goofed; EPIA audio seems VT82C686 which IS supported, so

Network uses devn-via-rhine
Builtin Graphics confined to vesa (only 85Hz for non-VGA resolution?)
Builtin Audio uses deva-ctrl-via686

–
kabe

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I’ve now got the board, impressive little thing…

But it won’t boot into RTP 6.1 or 6.2
( I have both on CD )

In both cases, installation appears to proceed fine,
but after reboot, I get the loader’s message asking which
partition I want, then lots of dots on the screen, then it
just hangs…

Is it something to do with the IDE arrangement?
( HD is master on IDE channel0
CDROM is master on channel1 )
I have to use the BIOS to swap the order of the boot
media, between installation and rebooting, to make
the board boot from HD and not CDROM
Could this be why it won’t boot?
( BIOS messing with drive numbers? )

This board has no floppy interface, so I have to
boot from CD to start with…

I’m beginning to think I’ll need to build a custom
image to boot this board, like I had to do for that
Elan486 card I had. Can this still be done using the
freely downloadable version of RTP 6.2?
I remember something about a licence being required
to build OS images in 6.2
( I may be mis-remembering here… )



Thanks

Richard Bebbington

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partition I want, then lots of dots on the screen, then it
just hangs…
You haven’t installed the /.boot properly.

You may have tried to be smart doing non-standard things
(like installing in second HDD, faking BIOS drives, into extended partition…)
Check for /fs/hd0-qnx4/.boot from CDROM boot.

Be sure to disable BIOS caching in the Setup.

I’d wish
<URL:news:anhjbc$8ha$1@inn.qnx.com>
URL:nntp://inn.qnx.com/qdn.public.sysadmin/54
have some place for FAQ or something…

kabe