From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 5 4:30:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (host-209-214-120-56.bna.bellsouth.net [209.214.120.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6D837B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 04:30:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (colossus.cotharyus.net [192.168.1.6]) by wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA8493406; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 05:51:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3BE686BF.105@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 06:31:59 -0600 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Conrado Vardanega Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with VIA's vt82c686b South Bridge References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The only boot problem I ever had with my board (A7V133) had to do with my parallel port - I believe I had to set it to polled mode. Conrado Vardanega wrote: > I own a Asus A7V133 motherboard with vt82c686b South Bridge. > > FreeBSD has some problems booting on this motherboard, frequently freezing > during the boot up. Sometimes it boots with some error messages regarding > the ATA system. No errors occurs when the onboard ATA is disabled. > Therefore, and I'm sure, it's a problem related to the chipset's ATA. The > Promise controller has nothing to do with this and works very well. > > I'm planning to buy a ASUS A7VL-VM for a low-cost server. I'm just worried > how would FreeBSD behave with this chipset. > > My concern is: how many of you are running FreeBSD fine with Asus A7V133, > A7VL-VM or similar motherboards with VT82C686B? > > Thank you. > Conrado > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message