From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 06:28:30 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 AEDE216A4CE for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 06:28:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9B243D2F for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 06:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from agerber@ncsu.edu) Received: from unlateral.dyndns.org (rdu57-247-216.nc.rr.com [66.57.247.216] (may be forged))i4LDSCfO017137 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 09:28:13 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: V-webmail 1.5.0 ( http://www.v-webmail.co.uk/ ) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:28:10 -0400 From: "Alan Gerber" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Originating-IP: [152.1.10.8] X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: Recommended Motherboards for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: agerber@ncsu.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:28:30 -0000 I have only used FreeBSD on one Asus board, the original A7A266. I've recently begun the undertaking of putting 5.2.1 on it. I had to disable the "Use PNP OS" function in the BIOS to make it work reliably - in other words, I'm making the BIOS assign device resources. The same is true for 4.8 and 4.9. The board does support ACPI satisfactorily, though. -- Alan Gerber >>Replied message follows Hi, personally I'm a ASUS-User. All boards i've ever used were asus except my Siemens Primergy 470 nad my Dell Latitude D600. I ran FreeBSD successfully on this boards: Asus A7M266-D, Dual-Athlon XP 1800+ (running CURRENT, ACPI w/o problems) Asus CUV4X-D, Dual-PIII 800 (ran 4.9, if i remember correctly) Asus P5A-B, K6-2 350 (running 5.2.1 p7, ACPI w/o problems) Asus A7V266-E, Athlon XP 1800+ (running CURRENT, ACPI w/o problems) and several asus borads, but never tested on freebsd, as i'm new to *NIX. asus are always high-quality boards. you'll notice that in quality of bios for example. all asus boards supporting ACPI, work flawless. Patrick