From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 18:10: 4 2002 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 A2DA437B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F8743EA9 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 99EFD4FC9F; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:07:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C224A0D for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:07:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:07:30 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20021010204002.O44745-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: Kenneth Culver > To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD > > > I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, > > and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well > > with FreeBSD? > > If your motherboard isn't working, then most likely there is some bios > configuration that could be tweaked to fix the problem. That said I'm > using an abit kx7-333 with an athlon xp 2000+ and have absolutely no > problems at all. > > > Someone didn't have the same troubles with soltek SL-75DRV2 > > > > > > I've bought asus card because my hp pavillion had a asus card with a via > > chipset. I read after that they don't document their boards so that > > open source developers can support all the features easily. Whats a > > more open motherboard brand? Are Via chipsets the best supported? The > > card I'm having trouble with has a acer chipset. > > > I don't know how well FreeBSD supports the acer chipsets, but I've had no > trouble with my via-based chipset. > > Ken > Agreed - my VIA chipset works fine. The board is an A7V-133: johnnyb:~ > dmesg | grep -i via pcib2: at device 1.0 on pci0 isab0: at device 4.0 on pci0 atapci0: port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0 uhci0: port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 5 at device 4.3 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 I haven't fiddled with the onboard RAID at all. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message