From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 00:35:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D843016A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 00:35:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8205443D6B for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 00:35:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EEB1F4408; Mon, 16 May 2005 20:35:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69127-01; Mon, 16 May 2005 20:35:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (ool-44c47f78.dyn.optonline.net [68.196.127.120]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0879D1F4405; Mon, 16 May 2005 20:35:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42893C38.60202@wingfoot.org> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:35:04 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb Organization: Wingfoot Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <4288F152.6000409@wingfoot.org> <200505170942.47262.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200505170942.47262.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at wingfoot.org cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Athlon64... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:35:07 -0000 Daniel O'Connor said the following on 5/16/2005 8:12 PM: >I'd be reluctant to use it since it has an nForce chipset, I have an AV8 here >which is working almost flawlessly (The only problem is that vge only work >when compiled into the kernel). It's running 5.3 on an Athlon64 3000+. > Mm. There is that. Though it's easy enough to download the port & files onto a thumb drive or floppy beforehand and pop the driver on after the install. It just adds a pre-step to updating the kernel (download & install the latest port for the driver... do the build/installkernel, then go back and de/reinstall the port--I'm sure there's a better way of doing it, but that's what I've been doing.) Best, --G. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759