Subject: Re: Shuttle SN27P2: success, mostly
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 10/01/2006 18:14:24
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:10:05 +0200
Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just a quick note about a success story.  It went much better than I
> initially expected.
> 
> The machine is a Shuttle SN27P2, equipped with an AMD Athlon X2 3800+
> (the 89W version, I couldn't get my hands on an EE) and 2GB of RAM.
> 
> The motherboard has a nForce 570 Ultra chipset, I added an NVIDIA
> GeForce 6200LE on the PCIe port.  For the story to be complete, it has
> both a SATA hard drive and a SATA DVD burner.
> 
> dmesg: http://taryn.cubidou.net/~cube/netbsd/sn27p2.dmesg
> 
> I quickly installed an amd64 snapshot and later updated to latest
> -current.
> 
> nfe, azalia, viaide, ohci all work perfectly in my use (the USB part
> is still under-tested, but at least it had no trouble with the hub in
> my monitor and the devices behind it;  all USB1).  I haven't tried
> all the "fancy" stuff like recording from azalia, playing with ehci
> or thinking of a way to use the eSATA port.

It's good to know that NetBSD works in modern hardware :-)

Anyway we are not friendly in power management.... maybe in the
future? :-)