Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:39:58 -0400 (EDT) From: User LAFFER1 <laffer1@adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe Message-ID: <20040627093830.H13090@adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <20040627035549.GA2414@polands.org> References: <1088268927.734.16.camel@localhost> <20040626174214.GA263@polands.org><20040627035549.GA2414@polands.org>
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I've noticed that many newer Asus boards have ACPI problems with FreeBSD. Its a shame because i have always bought asus boards since I learned of them. On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Doug Poland wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: >> On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 18:42, Doug Poland wrote: >>>> I currently have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe which is okay - until I turn off >>>> ACPI and then I get a "Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while is >>>> kernel mode" while booting. I need to be able to turn off ACPI as the >>>> nvidia driver doesn't work with it on. >>>> >>>> The P4S800D-E Deluxe is very similar is features to the P4C800 Deluxe >>>> and I want to make sure that it doesn't suffer from the same problem >>>> before I buy it. >>>> >>> Sorry, it does suffer the same problem. I've got an nVidia 5700 >>> that's running the XFree86 nv driver because of this issue. >> >> Hi, >> It's a good job I checked first then. Do you know of any boards that >> offer similar features, but don't have this problem? >> > No, I don't. Someone created a webapp that attempted to "rate" the > performance of mobos for FBSD. The URL is: > > http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ > > I just checked it out and it seems to be stale now. There's a MySQL > connect error visible on the page. Also, it didn't rate ACPI > compatibility/performance which is something you really want to know. > > -- > Regards, > Doug > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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