[wellylug] Mini-ITX Motherboard

[Rik Wade]

I run an EPIA 5000 system as a headless Debian server at home. The 
reason I chose it was that it was low power consumption, quiet (it's a 
fanless system) and the P166 system I was using at the time finally bit 
the dust. My experience with this kit has been excellent for the 
application I use it for.

The video chipset on my board is recognised by Linux, but I don't use 
it to run X. I have done so though when first installing it. I've not 
looked at anything to do with DVD hardware on this or other EPIA boards 
though.

I can highly recommend the Epia stuff with Linux though. I bought my 
system from http://www.linitx.com when I lived in the UK. It's a cheap 
way to build a solid, low-power, system.
--
Rik Wade

On 10 Mar 2005, at 20:58, Jethro Carr wrote:

> I want to build a mini-itx system.
>
>
> I've looked at EPIA motherboards, such as the VIA EPIA-M10000
> (http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=337147) but I have a
> few questions:

> - is the video card supported under linux? I've read conficiting
> information about this on the web.
>
> - does the hardware dvd decrytion mean that I don't need libdvdcss? 
> Does
> it work on Linux?
>
> If anyone can direct me to some answers, or mention other mini-itx
> boards which can play DVD's without using the libdvdcss libary, it 
> would
> be really helpfull.