Via epia-p830

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Hi all!

Can somebody tell me is the Haiku “compatible” with VIA motherboard/CPU? I want to buy a VIA EPIA-P830 Pico-ITX motherboard uses with 2-4GB memory, a SSD and an USB wifi.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/ProductDetail.jsp?productLine=1&id=1310&tabs=1

The specifications:
CPU: VIA 1.2GHz U3300 Nano processor
Chipset: VIA VX900H Unified Digital Media IGP Chipset
IO chipset: Fintek F8180U-I
Memory: 2GB or 4GB SO-DIMM
VGA: Integrated VIA Chrome9 HD 3D/2D graphics
LAN: VIA VT6130 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller
Audio: VT1708S High Definition audio codec
HDD: Samsung 470 64GB SSD
WLAN: Zyxel NWD2205 USB N adapter (RTL8192CU)

And another question: is HDMI (with audio) can use with Haiku?

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There is no USB WiFi support… you’d have to use a PCI card. Though the support will eventually be added as the USB drivers are fleshed out.

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The Lan driver is not supported yet either. Otherwise it will work.

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our vt612x need’s to be updated from vendor/freebsd/current/dev (MII and vge)

it suports vt612x and vt613x (vt6130 and vt6132)

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And what about the VGA and audio?

I think it would be fine if we can put a sticker “Powered by Haiku” or “Designed for Haiku” to this small PC. And we can build a very small configuration for Haiku, and it would be a “recommend for Haiku” PC. :slight_smile:

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And what about the VGA and audio?

Unfortunately the VIA Chrome9™ HD IGP is not supported by the VIA driver. The VIA graphics driver is woefully out of date and broken.

The VT1708 audio driver also doesn’t work, even with opensound at least according to this bug report: #7850 (haiku doesn't recognized my onboard audio card) – Haiku

I think it would be fine if we can put a sticker “Powered by Haiku” or “Designed for Haiku” to this small PC.

Perhaps someone will do one better and sell a fully-supported PC with Haiku pre-installed once R1 is released. But this PC probably won’t be it since so many drivers are missing.

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[quote=dancso.robert]And what about the VGA and audio?

I think it would be fine if we can put a sticker “Powered by Haiku” or “Designed for Haiku” to this small PC. And we can build a very small configuration for Haiku, and it would be a “recommend for Haiku” PC. :)[/quote]

A number of Mini form factor motherboards are already supported by haiku, the issue is with Graphics but most of the modern audio chip sets seem to work fairly well.

Whats the ideal type of configuration your thinking here ? I might be convinced to put together some “powered by Haiku” pc’s.