From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 5 15:52:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF5F37B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:52:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D3D6F7830D; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:22:43 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:22:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Andrew MacIntyre , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon XP configuration Message-ID: <20020306102243.E60972@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020304101512.V78085@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020306065044.E78085@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020306065044.E78085@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 6 March 2002 at 6:50:44 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Mar-05 22:15:01 +1100, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> Abit KG7 motherboard >> >> Keep in mind that this board has a VIA 686b Northbridge, which has been a > ^^^^^ south >> source of headaches (supposedly worked around...). > > The only problems I'm aware of (IDE corruption) have been in conjunction > with the with the KT133A. I don't know of any problems when used with > the AMD761 northbridge. I'm using a system with a 686B, running -CURRENT. I had a lot of trouble running 4.x, but -CURRENT's fine. I still can't get 4.5-RELEASE to install on another AMD MB, though NetBSD and OpenBSD run fine. OpenBSD reports the southbridge as pchb1 at pci0 dev 7 function 4 "VIA VT82C686 SMBus" rev 0x40 It's not clear whether it distinguishes the 686 and the 686B. The motherboard was built last August. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message