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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210102105260.13340-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021010204002.O44745-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:26 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
> To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin <crsntlvs@ipeg.com>
> 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
> > <http://www1.soltek.com.tw/English/product/75drv2.htm>;
> >
> > 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: <VIA 8363 (Apollo KT133) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on 
pci0
isab0: <VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 
on pci0
uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 5 at device 4.3 
on pci0
usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> 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 
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