From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 17:43:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 6246116A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:43:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-208-53-189.new.rr.com [24.208.53.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7136143D3F for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:43:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (sheba.polands.org [172.16.1.33]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5QHnIGk079687; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:49:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5QHgEDi000321; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:42:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@sheba.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i5QHgEOL000320; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:42:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:42:14 -0500 From: Doug Poland To: Shaun Friedle Message-ID: <20040626174214.GA263@polands.org> References: <1088268927.734.16.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1088268927.734.16.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:43:18 -0000 On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 05:55:27PM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know how well this motherboard works under FreeBSD 5.2.1? > For the most part, it works good. > I currently have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe which is okay - until I turn off > ACPI and then I get a "Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while is > kernel mode" while booting. I need to be able to turn off ACPI as the > nvidia driver doesn't work with it on. > > The P4S800D-E Deluxe is very similar is features to the P4C800 Deluxe > and I want to make sure that it doesn't suffer from the same problem > before I buy it. > Sorry, it does suffer the same problem. I've got an nVidia 5700 that's running the XFree86 nv driver because of this issue. > I don't think it should as from what I've read the problem is with > the Intel 845/865/875 chipsets, whereas the P4S800D-E Deluxe uses > the SiS 655TX chipset. > FWIW, the -E board has a better NIC (Intel based, using em driver) and the RAID support is great using the Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller for FreeBSD. I use the Intel ICH5R RAID for Windows RAID support. -- Regards, Doug