From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 08:06:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6603716A41A for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:06:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from conducive.net (conducive.net [203.194.153.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2A813C442 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:06:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from c-75-75-30-250.hsd1.va.comcast.net ([75.75.30.250]:64798 helo=pb.local) by conducive.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1J4XTI-000JZo-GM for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:06:36 +0000 Message-ID: <47677F89.5040501@conducive.net> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:06:33 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20071217222806.4dfd1312@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071217222806.4dfd1312@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Motherboard Asus P5N-E SLI compatibility with FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:06:38 -0000 Fabien Degomme wrote: > Hi, > > my question is about the Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard. I searched if > this MB is compatible with FreeBSD 7 but I don't have concrete > answer. > > So I just want to know if anyone owns this card with FreeBSD 6 > or 7 and if it works well. > > Thanks in advance :) > > > morphalus > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > There are significant differences among the P5 'family, but AFAIK, all P5(xx) do work with just about any release of FreeBSD, (we've used 6.2 thru 6.3, all 7.X, 8-CURRENT). That said, there are MB, 'glue' chipset, and BIOS differences that can require special attention or reduce networking or Xorg utility, i.e. - getting a USB mouse to play nice (BIOS USB settings), perhaps having an onboard NIC (P5K & Alantec) that is not supported, and less than optimal graphics adapter choices. Some (again P5K) rob signal & interrupt lines for the 'faster' of two PCI-e sockets in such a way as to preclude effective use of the onnboard PCI slots when that socket is populated. Not so if the 'slower' PCI-e (only) is used. JM2CW, but, other than their 'bespoke' server MB, ASUS seem to place so much emphasis on Win-Gaming performance (or benchmarks..) that the compromises they make to 'win' do not make life easy for applying their consumer-grade MB to *N*X server or desktop use. We've had better results and far less hassle for both server and 'power user' desktop with comparably easy to find GigaByte MB. HTH, Bill