From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 11:55:15 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 5DD9E16A4D0; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:55:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A198B43D5A; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:55:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD6F11A53; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:00:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89927-04; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:00:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cream.xbsd.org (cream.xbsd.org [192.168.42.6]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20E611A51; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:00:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Florent Thoumie To: Roman Neuhauser In-Reply-To: <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> <20050416114331.GA17943@isis.sigpipe.cz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-bmPVJZ5TNvXbsAlh0y7C" Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:55:17 +0200 Message-Id: <1113652517.36786.18.camel@cream.xbsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org 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 11:55:15 -0000 --=-bmPVJZ5TNvXbsAlh0y7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Saturday 16 April 2005 =E0 13:43 +0200, Roman Neuhauser a =E9crit : > # flz@xbsd.org / 2005-04-16 00:23:43 +0200: > > Le Friday 15 April 2005 ? 14:16 -0700, David O'Brien a =E9crit : > > > 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 wrot= e: > > > > > > Jung-uk Kim writes: > > > > > > > Stay away from nForce chipsets. > > > > > > > > > > > > Please stop spreading this little piece of disinformation. nFo= rce3 > > > > > > motherboards such as the Asus SK8N should work fine. > > > > >=20 > > > > > DES stop spreading FUD. > > > >=20 > > > > I think the point to be made here, is that there are SOME specific > > > > nforce based boards, that work great, > > >=20 > > > There are? Which?? The SK8N that DES will respond to my email is > > > actually high on the "bizzare issues" list. > >=20 > > I have an Asus A8N-SLI (nforce4) Motherboard based box running=20 > > 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=20 > > 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). > >=20 > > The system is totally usable, >=20 > 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? The only thing that is a bit annoying is sound (which has been=20 reported as working, read the other posts). BTW, integrated=20 sound chipset are usually crap. ACPI/APIC isn't really necessary (I wasn't using it since DES=20 told it was working with NO_MIXED_MODE commented). The MB has=20 two integrated networking chipsets, and people usually don't=20 care about one not working. And I said I was clueless about USB=20 because I wasn't using it. That makes the box usuable (remove "totally" if it can make you=20 happier). My point is that a page with FreeBSD/amd64 status on different=20 MBs would be much more useful than "Plz stay away from nvidia,=20 this is crap". --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org --=-bmPVJZ5TNvXbsAlh0y7C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCYP0lMxEkbVFH3PQRAgxoAJ9RmnjAgMUiOhggk4whhrcVA5WRaQCfUs7l 1Y83BxyF/H7is168/aBcib4= =GGpR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bmPVJZ5TNvXbsAlh0y7C--