From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 7 15:49:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFFD10656BC for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:49:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout3.freenet.de (mout3.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBD28FC0A for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:49:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.24] (helo=14.mx.freenet.de) by mout3.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #79) id 1LrDYG-0001Lp-Pd for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:49:28 +0200 Received: from te06f.t.pppool.de ([89.55.224.111]:35118 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 14.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #79) id 1LrDYG-0007hO-IX for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:49:28 +0200 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:49:27 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090407174927.117bfda8@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: References: <83e5fb980904061402q73940f8at4ec4b8f821354320@mail.gmail.com> <200904062321.47691.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> <20090407095804.G8569@rust.salford.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: AMD 780G chipset major issues 3/3 (btx) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:49:30 -0000 On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:59:17 -0400 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Mark Powell 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