Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:12:19 GMT From: Mike M <mmcgus@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/94945: Success report: FreeBSD 5.4 runs fine on AMD64, Asus K8S-LA motherboard Message-ID: <200603260512.k2Q5CJ2x042803@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200603260520.k2Q5KCYV039442@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 94945 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Success report: FreeBSD 5.4 runs fine on AMD64, Asus K8S-LA motherboard >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 26 05:20:12 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mike M >Release: 5.4-stable >Organization: >Environment: >Description: I was just trolling your AMD64 page, noticed you didn't have this one. Motherboard: Asus K8S-LA (Salmon), chipsets Sis964/Sis760. Everything on the motherboard works fine (IDE, SATA, ethernet, sound, etc - haven't checked firewire, though it's detected), EXCEPT that the on-board graphics is very twitchy: I had to detune it (and turn off all acceleration in X windows) in order to have a stable machine - once you do this, Xorg starts using a brutal percentage of the CPU (when simply dragging around windows). Eventually, I solved this by installing a $20 video card. System has been stable - albiet lightly loaded - since then (2 months). BTW: Lots of these machines are available as refurbs from HP/Compaq (eg: Pavillion a1007w-b), because it's essentially impossible to get fast & stable graphics out of the onboard video (because the memory controller is on the AMD64, and the onboard video has no dedicated memory) - so people return them when they find they won't play the games they expected. I can't say I'd recommend them, though - there appear to have been quality control problems with the motherboards (occasional hard-to-track-down random bit errors between CPU and north bridge on the first one I got), non-adjustable BIOS, etc. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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