From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 5 22:18:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C7237B405 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14692 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2002 05:18:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO asus.tddhome) ([64.81.20.229]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Jun 2002 05:18:20 -0000 Received: from asus.tddhome (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asus.tddhome (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g565IK1M003344; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by asus.tddhome (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g565IKm8003341; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206060518.g565IKm8003341@asus.tddhome> X-Authentication-Warning: asus.tddhome: tomdean set sender to tomdean@speakeasy.org using -f From: "Thomas D. Dean" To: chad@shire.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (chad@shire.net) Subject: Re: ASUS a7m266-d dual Athlon board? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I had problems with the ASUS A7N266-E w/ AMD XP 1800. The on-board vga is not supported in FreeBSD and causes a system freeze. ASUS will NOT provide doc for the chipset, the nVidia nForce 420D. nVidia will NOT provide doc for ANY chipset. AMD provides doc for their 760 series chipset. I do not know if it supports ECC, but, if it does, I recommend you find a MB that has that chipset. I would avoid nVidia chipsets and ASUS motherboards because of their refusal to provide FreeBSD developers with docs for the chipset so drivers can be developed. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message