From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 3 22:23:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591CE37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA9F43E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:23:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g645MGoi017009; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g645MGC7017008; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:22:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Chuck Robey Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended MP development machines... Message-ID: <20020703222216.A16750@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020703202553.A12306@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020703233926.N66398-100000@april.chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020703233926.N66398-100000@april.chuckr.org>; from chuckr@chuckr.org on Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:50:00PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:50:00PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > (2) a > fixed onboard usb port. The K7 had a broken on-board usb (the AMD > chipset had a PCI contention bug for the usb port, so the tin back panel > of the board blocked out the usb, and the K7 came with a PCI usb card, > which ate up one of your PCI slots. Strange, my UCB works. I don't have a back panel (was an early release mobo), but I have used a USB Zip drive with this mobo. I haven't been able to get my USB printer working; but that seemed more due to our USB support than hardware. > I think the K7 had only AGP; the K7X has AGP-Pro; doesn't mean much yet, > but if you're a gaming maven, maybe it'll be important pretty quickly now. Mine has AGP-pro. Not saying the K7X isn't better. Just that maybe the Thunder K7 isn't so bad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message