Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:24:23 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe FreeBSD 5.4-Beta problems Message-ID: <4247F777.5080708@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4245D504.9040004@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <4245D504.9040004@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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O. Hartmann a écrit : > Dear Sirs. > I just tried to install a most recent set of FreeBSD > 5.4-PRERELEASE/5.4-BETA1 on an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo. The system has > a Maxtor 6B200M0 200GB harddisk attached to the nForce4 SATA connector > (due to NCQ) and a NEC 3500AG DVD+RW attached to the nForce4 ATA133 > connector. > Booting from installation CDROM is not possible until acpi gets disabled > and this stays so when already did make world / new kernel with a most > recent CTM set of the kernel stuff. > It seems that FreeBSD does not know much about the SATA/SATA2 controller > (it shows up as ATA Generic). The harddisk shows up as UDMA33 drive > (like the DVDRW). > Performance is crude, copying from DVD while compiling makes the system > hang for some seconds on console. > > Sorry, I'm not connected to the net with that machine so I lack in > dmesg-output. > > I read some time ago about nVidia nForce3/4 issues and I wonder that > this is still status quo. > > Compiling kernel without "atpic" seems to leave the operating system > inoperable, ACPI seems not to work. My question is whether FreeBSD 5.4 > will support this type of hardware or maybe 5.5 or will FreeBSD not > support this? > > Sorry bothering somebody around here, maybe this has been completely > discussed here but I do not read regularily this mailing list. > > Can someone send me hints/tips for a fast kerl config and say something > about the trapdoors? I'm not sure what's wrong with your configuration but I have this motherboard and had no problems with 5.3-R (except acpi and broken sk(4) which is resolved now). -- Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org
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