From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 21:32:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F1316A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:32:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D1743D31 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:32:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de) Received: from [134.93.180.218] (edda.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444C030003EE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:32:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4245D504.9040004@mail.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:32:52 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-15?Q?f=FCr_Geophysik?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050317 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-mainz.de Subject: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe FreeBSD 5.4-Beta problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:32:27 -0000 Dear Sirs. I just tried to install a most recent set of FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE/5.4-BETA1 on an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo. The system has a Maxtor 6B200M0 200GB harddisk attached to the nForce4 SATA connector (due to NCQ) and a NEC 3500AG DVD+RW attached to the nForce4 ATA133 connector. Booting from installation CDROM is not possible until acpi gets disabled and this stays so when already did make world / new kernel with a most recent CTM set of the kernel stuff. It seems that FreeBSD does not know much about the SATA/SATA2 controller (it shows up as ATA Generic). The harddisk shows up as UDMA33 drive (like the DVDRW). Performance is crude, copying from DVD while compiling makes the system hang for some seconds on console. Sorry, I'm not connected to the net with that machine so I lack in dmesg-output. I read some time ago about nVidia nForce3/4 issues and I wonder that this is still status quo. Compiling kernel without "atpic" seems to leave the operating system inoperable, ACPI seems not to work. My question is whether FreeBSD 5.4 will support this type of hardware or maybe 5.5 or will FreeBSD not support this? Sorry bothering somebody around here, maybe this has been completely discussed here but I do not read regularily this mailing list. Can someone send me hints/tips for a fast kerl config and say something about the trapdoors? Thanks, Oliver