From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 20:02:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630516A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asarian-host.net (mail.asarian-host.net [194.109.160.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD71643D5F for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:02:00 -0700 (PDT) SRS0=XjnANR7+=HP=asarian-host.net=admin@asarian-host.net) Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email accounts can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.asarian-host.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i3J31xZe075323 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 05:01:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) From: Mark Received-SPF: pass (asarian-host.net: domain of admin@asarian-host.net designates sender IP as SASL permitted sender) Message-Id: <200404190301.I3J31WIN075303@asarian-host.net> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 03:01:59 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net X-Trace: tOMBhE1oJp0yptHAsmzdowVDEnePKiTqSuxy+fvRTA4qpfq/6+yBy4iKtctFhlEmX6MRtXcq5m6BIpwdaHCRQA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: "Tim Robbins" References: <200404181516.I3IFGIQ6039814@asarian-host.net> <20040419033848.GA10708@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAQINBJzFqW1BleBN9AQFX9Qf/YomazqKmstGVDfwxrFHI/tm/xYM8+e7C YB7c1sZR0hFH599rXZgRww5y7CL9OJKnanhYRAGLI1XbI9W5RoJxFoqbww+Pr2Je ip/g9xPQ1aLADk4oErhgRWioIckZACBoDTo7ushxdrjHUOYBd1UYcZfc+72mwf0R Q9xtSfv5VDTeF+16xMYvy4zCwtDZb4EopUOXPIMEWijJoSlaz991xb+/Uy9KXgvU 9kNPxz+Qj+TRs19kwmdgfd02SXqRD342ziuTv8FDWhXPoePV1Bjoblu/4L3Vb5Fu L1st4n0ieIaRYg/A7alTOmf9ITKyxhZgElN2XzmRUk6A/LEmoeddRg== =i69A cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADI AD1980 6-channel audio X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 03:02:01 -0000 Tim Robbins wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:16:19PM +0000, Mark wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I plan to install FreeBSD 4.9R-p4 on an ASUS K8V Deluxe board. The >> board has an oboard ADI AD1980 6-channel audio chip. Is that >> supported? The 4.9R hardware compatibility list does not list a >> whole lot of devices. > > I have this same board. FreeBSD 5.2.1/amd64 supports all of the > onboard hardware, including sound, network, USB 2.0, VIA ATA/SATA, > Promise SATA, and FireWire. ACPI support is also fully functional. I > haven't tried 4.9, but I expect that most are supported; out of > interest, though, why are you not running an amd64 release? Because I do not trust 5.x yet. There are way, way too many problems reported with it, daily, on the freebsd-questions list, for me to touch it with the proverbial ten-foot pole. :) Now, if a 4.9 release came out for amd64, that would be a different story, of course. I suspect the 32-bit kernel will run nicely on the AMD 64 too, though. I would have loved to have had SATA support for the VIA chipset (not yet in 4.9R). And if 5.x ever becomes stable (as stable as, say, my old 4.7R, which in several years has never spontaneously reset/hung (!)), I will gladly upgrade. But thanks for the encouraging glimps into the future, anyway. :) - Mark