From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 2 10:24:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804E437B416 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:24:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g22IOV125336 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:24:31 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002030219204078:12107 ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:20:40 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g22IbKY21825 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:37:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:37:20 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: hardware notes (mobo recommendations?) Message-ID: <20020302183720.GE351@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020302130333.04d20ba8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/02/2002 07:20:41 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/02/2002 07:20:47 PM, Serialize complete at 03/02/2002 07:20:47 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:16:25 -0500 > To: Roman Neuhauser , > freebsd-questions > From: Scott > 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 > >> 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). -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 7:32PM up 2 days, 20:39, 15 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.06, 0.07 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message