From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 01:06:09 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 2BF2B16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 01:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3817743D95 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 01:06:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4H162SB061932; Tue, 17 May 2005 10:36:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Glenn Sieb Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:35:39 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4288F152.6000409@wingfoot.org> <200505170942.47262.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42893C38.60202@wingfoot.org> In-Reply-To: <42893C38.60202@wingfoot.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1573264.LMRl401oJf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505171035.56975.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 01:06:09 -0000 --nextPart1573264.LMRl401oJf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 17 May 2005 10:05, Glenn Sieb wrote: > 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 Athlon= 64 > > 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.) ?? The vge driver is in the 5.3 GENERIC kernel. I normally make my kernels fai= rly=20 minimal but it seems the vge driver doesn't work properly as a module, only= =20 built into the kernel. Maybe you're thinking of the nvnet driver. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1573264.LMRl401oJf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCiUN05ZPcIHs/zowRAklEAJ9bq/tvpe822BUlIheUNSPOCV2lAACfcqzh zyHCKp6CHeOrEmMwNPwG+7Y= =XMgD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1573264.LMRl401oJf--