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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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