From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 11:43:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8788616A4CE; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:43:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from isis.sigpipe.cz (r2g224.chello.upc.cz [62.245.70.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D80D43D53; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:43:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neuhauser@sigpipe.cz) Received: by isis.sigpipe.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 63A7E1F87BED; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:43:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:43:31 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Florent Thoumie Message-ID: <20050416114331.GA17943@isis.sigpipe.cz> References: <20050413210855.GA15088@bitsurf.net> <200504131714.20356.jkim@niksun.com> <86fyxt1ovu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050415005850.GB80903@dragon.NUXI.org> <2fd864e050414180911e4e5be@mail.gmail.com> <20050415211600.GA1473@dragon.NUXI.org> <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:43:34 -0000 # flz@xbsd.org / 2005-04-16 00:23:43 +0200: > Le Friday 15 April 2005 ? 14:16 -0700, David O'Brien a écrit : > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Astrodog wrote: > > > On 4/14/05, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > > > > > Jung-uk Kim writes: > > > > > > Stay away from nForce chipsets. > > > > > > > > > > Please stop spreading this little piece of disinformation. nForce3 > > > > > motherboards such as the Asus SK8N should work fine. > > > > > > > > DES stop spreading FUD. > > > > > > I think the point to be made here, is that there are SOME specific > > > nforce based boards, that work great, > > > > There are? Which?? The SK8N that DES will respond to my email is > > actually high on the "bizzare issues" list. > > I have an Asus A8N-SLI (nforce4) Motherboard based box running > 5-STABLE for some time now. Issues are : > x ACPI (quite common), > x Sound (not much a problem since I have an Emu10K1 based sound > card which is far better), > x Network (sk0 works fine, but not should-be-nv0), > x USB (no clue, I'm not using it ATM but firewire works). > > The system is totally usable, You have listed things that are *not* usable, which means the board is not *totally* usable. Please think a bit about what you post. :) So, what *does* work on the board? PS/2 mouse / keyboard, ATA, PCI-E graphics, and that's it? > I'm totally happy with it. Good for you. If I bought a mobo and half of its functions were inoperational it wouldn't fall within my idea of "totally usable". But thanks for your description, I now know I need to avoid A8N-SLI. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991