Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:13:16 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: User Tomdean <tomdean@speakeasy.org>, gregory@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations for ATHLON. Message-ID: <62GFEBA6Z51SM86W08C1WZW71OI.3cb8bb8c@sparky> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020413103820.00c37f80@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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4/13/2002 10:40:02 AM, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >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) Sorry to hear of problems. Just wanted to note that I've run FBSD 4.4 with XFree-4.1.x and an ASUS A7M266 no problems, and ditto for FBSD 4.5, XFree-4.1.x and an ASUS A7V266-E. Both were with the same GeForce2 MX400 card. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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