Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:10:15 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? Message-ID: <42610EB7.2080301@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <1113652517.36786.18.camel@cream.xbsd.org> 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> <1113652517.36786.18.camel@cream.xbsd.org>
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Florent Thoumie schrieb: >Le Saturday 16 April 2005 à 13:43 +0200, Roman Neuhauser a écrit : > > >># 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 <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> 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? >> >> > > The only thing that is a bit annoying is sound (which has been > reported as working, read the other posts). BTW, integrated > sound chipset are usually crap. > > Indeed, and this 32-Bit hardware AC97 is further crap in a 64Bit system and we pay for this 'beeing lost in furure when we have more than 4GB RAM' and must doing nasty things like memory remapping ... > ACPI/APIC isn't really necessary (I wasn't using it since DES > told it was working with NO_MIXED_MODE commented). The MB has > two integrated networking chipsets, and people usually don't > care about one not working. And I said I was clueless about USB > because I wasn't using it. > > That makes the box usuable (remove "totally" if it can make you > happier). > > My point is that a page with FreeBSD/amd64 status on different > MBs would be much more useful than "Plz stay away from nvidia, > this is crap". > > I aggree, too.
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