From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 11:41:49 2004 Return-Path: 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 3B18816A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:41:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C0C43D3F for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:41:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from [212.40.38.87] (oddity.topspin.kiev.ua [212.40.38.87]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id OAA11520; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:41:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <414ACD63.2080904@icyb.net.ua> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:41:23 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040831) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vulpes Velox References: <414975AF.7080208@icyb.net.ua> <20040916161802.0ee13060@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20040916161802.0ee13060@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nforce2 vs. apic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:41:49 -0000 on 17.09.2004 00:18 Vulpes Velox said the following: > I own a Abit NF7 > > Yeah... I remember this. A bit... I remember having to tweak it a bit > to get it to play nicely. IIRC 5.2.1 does not have apic in by defualt? > I may just haved removed it... I forget now, but any ways. Before > trying apic, make sure your kernel has it. If your kernel does not, go > into the setup screen and turn it off. I never had any ACPI problems > with it and that has all ways worked well, minus a warning about a odd > character or the like in it at startup. I have also never had any ACPI problems, and everything is fine if APIC is disabled either in BIOS or in kernel, but when it is enabled in both the system freezes. > So far my only complaint with it has been the onboard vr ethernet chip > appears to suck compared to the dc pci card I have been using. Not > taken the time to sort that out yet. Appears some what slow under > heavy load. Think that has to do with a problem with device polling > for that chipset. Btw, to be precise I have NF7-S and I use network driver from ports/net/nvnet, works fine for me, although I never did any performance benchmarking. -- Andriy Gapon