From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 7:40: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADFD37B404 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 07:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id g3DEeKvO028424; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:40:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020413103820.00c37f80@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:40:02 -0400 To: User Tomdean , gregory@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl From: Scott Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations for ATHLON. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200204131412.g3DECBk05160@celebris.tddhome> References: <20020413100714.A67681@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> <20020413100714.A67681@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:12 2002/04/13 -0700, User Tomdean wrote: >Be wary of ASUS boards with the integrated GeForce2 AGP. Look at PR >kern/28418. > >I have an ASUS A7N266-E that will not work with XFree86! If I run a >text console, it looks great. But starting X freezes the system. No >panic. No dump. I have to press reset to reboot! It seems that many ASUS boards have problems--mine is with the A7A266 (though mine was fixed with a hack--Tom, I'm sorry that it didn't work for you) IN GENERAL--it seems that the problem is with the ASUS boards and XFree86-4.x rather than one vid card or another (I've duplicated the problems with a few different cards) Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message