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From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
To: User Tomdean <tomdean@speakeasy.org>,
	gregory@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl, Scott <scottro@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



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