Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:32:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? Message-ID: <20050419173247.GB26152@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <4260F103.5050309@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <20050413210855.GA15088@bitsurf.net> <200504131714.20356.jkim@niksun.com> <86fyxt1ovu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050415005850.GB80903@dragon.NUXI.org> <2fd864e050414180911e4e5be@mail.gmail.com> <20050415211600.GA1473@dragon.NUXI.org> <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <86ekdbdnqh.fsf@xps.des.no> <4260F103.5050309@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:03:31PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > I have ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo. BIOS revision is 1006. I have no > problems with > ACPI. APIC works with NO_MIXED_MODE commented out in kernel. Disable the NO_MIXED_MODE option is a performance degradation. Bending over and taking it up the a** across all motherboards (which DES has forced on 5.4-RELEASE); makes the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe not "perfectly working". So yes people, you CAN get FreeBSD working on nForce-based motherboards. BUT how much do you want to sacrifice?? Degradation performance, not being able to use PowerNow!, not being able to use on-board NIC's, not being able to use on-board sound, etc... Why go thru all this when there is ZERO need to????????????? When one buys a motherboard, they have the choice to pick a motherboard that won't cause you major pain. So why not just do that?? > The only point I would complain about is the still 'GENERIC' > SATA150/SATA300 (switched back to UDMA33) > controller of the nForce4 chipset, but as DES answered me on a prior > posting this is due to a too fresh chipset. Another thing that isn't working for some nForce-based motherboards. Why not buy hardware that is well supported by FreeBSD today? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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