Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:37:20 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hardware notes (mobo recommendations?) Message-ID: <20020302183720.GE351@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020302130333.04d20ba8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020302122356.04d20e70@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> <20020302172803.GB351@roman.mobil.cz> <5.1.0.14.0.20020302122356.04d20e70@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020302130333.04d20ba8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:16:25 -0500
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>,
> freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: hardware notes (mobo recommendations?)
>
> At 19:07 2002/03/02 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 12:33:41 -0500
> >> From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
> >> Subject: Re: hardware notes (mobo recommendations?)
> >>
> >> At 18:28 2002/03/02 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >> >Ok, end of rant. My motherboard just went south, and I'm looking for a
> >> >good mobo for a Duron CPU. Recommendations?
> >>
> >> Just that the ASUS A7A266 has troubles with X. (IIRC, when I first
> >> realized it might be the board and not the card, when I searched,
> >> this was known about in Release 4.3---haven't done an update in a
> >> few weeks, but as of early Feb. the problem still existed)
> >
> > Could you expand a bit on this? What problems did you have?
>
> When I first installed FreeBSD on the box (4.2 IIRC) never got X
> working better than something 300x120.
(snipped)
> I'm not a hardware master, so there may be other factors
> involved--after seeing that others were also having trouble with the
> A7A266 with no simple workarounds, I more or less gave up on it, as I
> have other boxes that work as a desktop for me.
>
> Hope this is of some use to you
Thanks a lot for the info, looks like I definitely need to avoid
this chipset (the box is my home pc, so I need X).
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