Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:49:27 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD 780G chipset major issues 3/3 (btx) Message-ID: <20090407174927.117bfda8@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <a333b2be0904070759q73e709eds78b1a7b9dab7319e@mail.gmail.com> References: <83e5fb980904061402q73940f8at4ec4b8f821354320@mail.gmail.com> <200904062321.47691.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> <20090407095804.G8569@rust.salford.ac.uk> <a333b2be0904070759q73e709eds78b1a7b9dab7319e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:59:17 -0400 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > > > Le Monday 06 April 2009, Diego Depaoli a __crit : > >> > >>> And finally... > >>> if I enable ahci in bios the system won't boot with btx halted. > >>> Ctrl+alt+del is the only allowed action. > >>> > >>> Yes... it's a low cost motherboard, but I'm a bit confused. > >>> > >> > >> My latest computer is also a 780G machine (running Stable, instead of > >> current). > >> > > > > Could we have some make/models guys? I'm interested in a new integrated > > graphics MB for CURRENT and want to know what to avoid. > > Cheers. > > > > -- > > Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford > > Information & Learning Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, > > Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. > > Tel: +44 161 295 6843 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key > > > > Some Linux distributions are requesting permission after an install to send > a hardware profile to their official site . > > By collecting and using such profile values a data base may be constructed > by FreeBSD . > There's already a mechanism for reporting working hardware - sendpr. However, it doesn't seem to be very useful. I reported that my motherboard supported FreeBSD really well on Nov 28, 2008. The PR is still marked as open. I suspect that, if the existing mechanism doesn't work, adding a new one won't work any better. --- Gary Jennejohn
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