Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:00:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Mark Magiera <mark@hyow.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos? Message-ID: <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:36:49AM +0000, Mark Magiera wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:33:38 +0000 > Mark Magiera <mark@hyow.eu.org> wrote: > > The thing I'm unsure about is, how well are the nforce4 chipsets > > supported in FreeBSD? and what about PCI-E, would one of those mobo's > > in combination with a PCI-E nvidia card work? .. > > Any advice would be much appreciated .. > Ok, quick update. I finally bought the mobo (Asus A8N-SLi) along with a > 6600GT PCI-E and while there are a few problems, they seem the kind that > can be ironed out over time. Sorry I missed your original email, or I would have warned you. No committer had an AMD PCIe or nVidia nForce4 motherboard until this past weekend. AMD donated 2 motherboards to Scott Long who did the Intel PCIe work. So you're a little ahead of the game right now. The FreeBSD interest and work on PCIe has been for storage and network (e.g. server) devices, not graphics. So I have no idea how well PCIe (much less PCIe-SLi) is supported yet. A donation of a nice PCIe graphics card to Scottl would probably help the effort along. :-))))) > Basically, freebsd installs in both 32 and 64 bit mode but in both > cases, the network card is so unreliable that half way through a cvsup > (or anything else) it dies and nothing (that I know of) but a reboot > fixes it, this is for the "sk" device. What OS version are you running? For the AMD64 platform you really, really need to be tracking RELENG_5, if not 6-CURRENT. 5.3-RELEASE is our first real AMD64 release and of course we're now getting 2 orders of magnitude more testing exposure than when it was only a few developers with AMD64 machines. FreeBSD/AMD64 will get as polished and stable as FreeBSD/i386 over a very short time. If you have sk(4) problems with RELENG_5, please send a PR with complete details and a dmesg.boot from a verbose boot. > As for the other nic (the nforce > one), I didn't look into it much but it seems there's no driver for it > except one possibly (ports/net/nvnet) but since I'm unable to even do a > simple cvsup with the other card, it's not much use. Also the nvnet > driver is for 32bit mode only. Stop supporting nVidia by buying nForce-based motherboards. Or complain to nVidia that they (1) won't give us docs even under NDA, (2) won't provide a FreeBSD driver like they do for Linux. These mailing lists are filled with all the problems of nForce motherboards, yet FreeBSD users keep buying them... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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