Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:30:11 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? Message-ID: <42636203.6020007@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050418062438.GA85579@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050413210855.GA15088@bitsurf.net> <200504131714.20356.jkim@niksun.com> <86fyxt1ovu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050415005850.GB80903@dragon.NUXI.org> <2fd864e050414180911e4e5be@mail.gmail.com> <20050415211600.GA1473@dragon.NUXI.org> <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <20050418062438.GA85579@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien a écrit : > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:23:43AM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote: > >>Le Friday 15 April 2005 � 14:16 -0700, David O'Brien a �crit : >> >>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Astrodog wrote: >>> >>>>On 4/14/05, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Stay away from nForce chipsets. >>>>>> >>>>>>Please stop spreading this little piece of disinformation. nForce3 >>>>>>motherboards such as the Asus SK8N should work fine. >>>>> >>>>>DES stop spreading FUD. >>>> >>>>I think the point to be made here, is that there are SOME specific >>>>nforce based boards, that work great, >>> >>>There are? Which?? The SK8N that DES will respond to my email is >>>actually high on the "bizzare issues" list. >> >> I have an Asus A8N-SLI (nforce4) Motherboard based box running >> 5-STABLE for some time now. Issues are : >> x ACPI (quite common), > > > I don't have any ACPI issues on any AMD or VIA based chipsets. > I'm not saying there isn't at least one VIA-based mobo with bad ACPI > issues, but practially every nVidia based motherboard has bad ACPI > issues. In fact, I personally don't know of a single nVidia motherboard > that doesn't have bad ACPI issues. Do you? I only used GENERIC kernel which has NO_MIXED_MODE enabled. I'm not really into ACPI/APIC, but it works now with this line commented. >> As Dag-Erling said, it'll be good if you were not giving false >> information and better (my opinion), as re-amd64@ if you were >> trying to get better relationship with Nvidia. > > > Read the archives -- MANY, MANY people thank me for my suggestions. > You don't have to follow them. And obviously didn't. I'm not blaming you for the suggestions you give, but for the way you give them. Note: About the patch to amd64.sgml, I'll contact some doc committers and try to submit you something before I leave for vacation. I guess you'll be pleased to ask people here for feedback about their mobos. -- Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org
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