Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 15:24:43 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: Peter Korsten <peterk@maltanet.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus A8N-SLI issues Message-ID: <4274D89B.1080102@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <4274C324.7060401@maltanet.net>
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Peter Korsten wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using FreeBSD on and off since version 2.something, but only > recently I got an Asus A8N-SLI (not the Deluxe version) and installed > 5.3 on it, from the link you get from the download page. > > There's the ACPI freeze problem, and I've found some references that > this will be solved at a later stage. Fair enough. Can you obtain more specific informations? It is known that nForce4 based chipsets need the option NO_MIXED_MODE to be commented out in the kernel config file! Also you have to define device atpic to make the board properly work. #options NO_MIXED_MODE device atpic > > The thing that I wonder about, though, is why the Ethernet port does not > get recognised. This is not the same as in the Deluxe version, where I > believe there is a different controller from the nForce4 chipset. Oddly > enough, it does recognise the nForce4 Firewire controller and proposes > to do TCP/IP over it. Could this be an issue of the 'firewall' hardware > that this board comes with? The Deluxe-version of this mainboard has an additional Marvel NIC onboard in addition to the nVidia NIC. I guess the non-Deluxe version has only the nForce4-inherent NIC and this NIC is not yet supported by FBSD 5.4 but 6.0-CURRENT has a driver. > > X isn't doing a lot either, but I've never found it easy to set that up, > so I'll look some more into it. I run A8N-SLI Deluxe with a nVidia based 6600 chipset graphics card without problems. There is no acceleration, so expect good 'brute force' 2D performance, but poor 3D performance (due to lack of suitable drivers for amd64/FreeBSD). > > The S-ATA disc is recognised as UDMA33, but at least it knows the > correct size of the disc, contrary to some OS from Washington state that > I could mention. This is the same to me and it is due to the lack of a suitable driver. The kernel does report the controller as a GENERIC type and 'recognizes' the speed as UDMA33, but I do not know whether the hard disk is really driven as a UDMA33 device or is in contrary to the kernel report driven at full speed. Oliverhome | help
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