On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 2009-09-03, Jason Beaudoin <[email protected]> wrote: > > -- > > 401.837.8417 > > [email protected] > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> On 2009-08-29, Jason Beaudoin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hiya Kevin, > >> > > >> > I'm hoping this dmesg is from a jetway NF76-N1G: > >> > http://www.mini-box.com/Jetway-NF76-N1G6-mini-ITX_2 > >> > >> try again. > >> > > might you know what it actually is? (curious) > > I quoted that bit back but you trimmed it; > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Kevin Lo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> bios0: iDOT Computers, Inc. iDOT VED8900 Series. > > (easy to find in a web search). > > > I'm trying to determine which (if any) chips from this board might be a > > problem in openbsd. Between this dmesg (which shares some of the > chipsets) > > and a few snippets I've seen elsewhere it looks good, the only thing I > > haven't determined is the sound chipset. > > For the NF76? it's on the page you quoted actually; VT1708B. > > One (the?) major problem nowadays though isn't with support for the > chips, but with the information about how they're connected together. > You can have two systems with the same chips and have one work > totally ok and another be unusable, just because of buggy or > "wierd" AML in the acpi tables provided by the BIOS. This isn't > just a set of static information, it's a computer program in a > special restricted machine language stored in the BIOS that the > OS runs - see a disassembled version with "acpidump". With "white > box" systems these appear to usually be provided by the BIOS > vendor then tweaked, with varying levels of competence, by the OEM. > > So without someone having the same system, BIOS version, settings > in the BIOS configuration screens, etc, you won't get more than > "most things on the board are likely to work" (and that's already > the case with most PC hardware). > > http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#45 > > indeed, thank you for the insight! ~jason
