From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 18: 0:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8E537B511 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA86952; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:29:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:29:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. Message-ID: <20000609102944.C86855@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000608205428.F10443@freebie.wbnet> <39402D39.40113EBC@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <39402D39.40113EBC@softweyr.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 8 June 2000 at 17:33:13 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: >> >> I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the >> $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and >> FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from. > > EPoX == trash. Avoid like the plague. Buy EPoX. They're good. > ASUS K7v == good. ASUS K7v == slow. I don't think that categorical statements like these help very much. I know you've had trouble with your EPoX boards, but you didn't ever find out whether this was a setup problem or a problem with the board. I had some setup problems with my EPoX board when I bought it, the dreaded: May 3 08:00:02 wantadilla /kernel: microuptime() went backwards (65202.831743 -> 65202,804412) I removed (not just disabled) apm from the kernel, and I haven't seen the problem since. In fact, I have had absolutely no problems. The fact that a disabled apm system can make a difference suggests that this isn't just a problem with the motherboard. A number of others have reported the same thing on this motherboard. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message