Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:56:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> Cc: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & ASUS A7V/VIA KT133 chipset Message-ID: <20000825125640.K39208@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000825032057.13268.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:20:56PM -0500 References: <Pine.HPX.4.05.10008240818550.5974-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> <20000825113028.C39208@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000825032057.13268.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
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On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 22:20:56 -0500, Gerd Knops wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 8:34:58 -0500, Guy Helmer wrote: >>> I'm looking at buying an ASUS A7V motherboard (for AMD Thunderbird >>> & Duron CPUs) that uses the VIA KT133 chipset. Does anyone happen >>> to have one of these working with FreeBSD? I noticed Steve Kargl's >>> recent query about a minor problem with a somewhat similar board, >>> the Abit KA7, and I would like to be sure about this motherboard... >> >> We have a bug in the timer code which some of these Athlon boards >> trigger. If you're affected, you'll get thousands of "microuptime >> went backwards" messages. The workaround is to disable APM. > > So far I have not observed that here with the ASUS A7V and a AMD > Thunderbird (APM is compiled into the kernel). To clarify things, I have no evidence that the A7V has ever had this problem. I just said "some of these boards", so Gerd's input is more reliable. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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