From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 13:34:43 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 1288716A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:34:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gate.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9A443D46 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:34:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by gate.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF59116FA; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:35:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from gate.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17459-04; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:35:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.20.107] (ALagny-109-1-8-82.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.56.82]) by gate.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6A8116C9; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:35:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4211FA51.3060302@xbsd.org> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:34:09 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Magiera References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB97509E52BDCB5E39FD14665" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos? 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: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:34:43 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB97509E52BDCB5E39FD14665 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Magiera wrote: > Ok, quick update. I finally bought the mobo (Asus A8N-SLi) along with a > 6600GT PCI-E and while there are a few problems, they seem the kind that > can be ironed out over time. I have the same motherboard with a Geforce 6600 too. > Basically, freebsd installs in both 32 and 64 bit mode but in both > cases, the network card is so unrelaible that half way through a cvsup > (or anything else) it dies and nothing (that I know of) but a reboot > fixes it, this is for the "sk" device. As for the other nic (the nforce > one), I didn't look into it much but it seems there's no driver for it > except one possibly (ports/net/nvnet) but since I'm unable to even do a > simple cvsup with the other card, it's not much use. Also the nvnet > driver is for 32bit mode only. I tried unsuccessfully net/nvnet. > For some further testing, I booted a FreeSBIE cd (to see if the GPU > worked) and X/xfce4 ran on that flawlesly, probabaly not with the nvidia > driver but still good to know. > > Basically, if anyone's going for a 64 bit install with similair > hardware, forget about it if you rely on network access or unless > either the "sk" drivers are updated to a state where they work better, > or you have all distfiles and a recent snapshot of ports on cd. sk(4) driver included in 5.3-R is indeed unusable. It took me some hours to get a fresh src-all cvsup'd. I don't have problems now with this chip, but I think it had issues with DHCP. Not sure though. I'm waiting for new xorg to see if I can run a decent X server because Nvidia hasn't released amd64 version of their FreeBSD driver yet. -- Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org --------------enigB97509E52BDCB5E39FD14665 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCEfpWMxEkbVFH3PQRAi4iAJ9dP7BtCpALMrw+ZaDPLyhZQB+Y5wCfU0KI 7YKJ+X3URyegvAdmokEXW+Q= =H0eA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB97509E52BDCB5E39FD14665--