From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 16:12:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D68016A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:12:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@unixdaemon.org) Received: from knife.dreamhost.com (knife.dreamhost.com [66.33.219.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DE343D5C for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:12:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@unixdaemon.org) Received: from dracula (cpe-24-24-83-9.stny.res.rr.com [24.24.83.9]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2C1FB621; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:12:32 -0800 (PST) From: Dev Tugnait To: Torfinn Ingolfsen In-Reply-To: <20051213202149.260c77be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <1134410468.12592.6.camel@dracula> <20051213165125.GA59683@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051213202149.260c77be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:10:59 -0500 Message-Id: <1134526259.12592.12.camel@dracula> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MotherBoard Chipset Woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dev@unixdaemon.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:12:43 -0000 The board I have bought does not have onboard video hehe go figure. I plan on using nvidia anyway but since their aren't any drivers out as yet I might be forced to run x86 for awhile. I am just worried about the Marvell Lan chipset. On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 20:21 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:51:25 -0800 > David O'Brien wrote: > > > What unsupported hardware? I'm running an MSI ATI-based motherboard. > > Not unsupported per se, just flaky. Note: this _might_ be related to the > specific manufacturer and / or model of motherboard that I'm using; I > don't know. And all this might be history now, for all I know. > > Earlier on, the Xorg support (xorg 6.99.5) for ATI Radeon Xpress 200 gfx > chipset was unstable, as described here: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3242 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3296 > > because the card was unusable at the time, I switched to a external > card - the nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache. This has worked for me, so I > haven't tested the Xpress 200 onboard gfx after that. -- Dev Tugnait