From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 10 22:19:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B805816A41C for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:19:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB9643D45 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:19:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:20:02 +0100 Message-ID: <42D19EE6.20500@dial.pipex.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:19:18 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jul 2005 22:20:02.0568 (UTC) FILETIME=[84494080:01C5859D] Subject: Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:19:20 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I would bet that if you took that 6600 card to enough DIFFERENT >systems, you would find a motherboard in which it worked perfectly under >FreeBSD 5.4. > > 6600 GT in an Asus A8V Deluxe + nvidia drivers (but not nv drivers where mozilla corrupts one a day). Of course it's just *a* 6600, probably from a different manufacturer. > This kind of thing is just par for the course in hardware and is >why the people at Dell and HP that select parts from OEMs for their >systems get paid the big bucks. > Sure. And to find incompatible power supplies, write new firmware which doesn't work properly... ;-) --Alex