From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 12:24:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E1A16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:24:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6449943D48 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:24:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C140D11699; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:26:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37769-06; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:26:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.42.2] (gatecrasher.xbsd.org [192.168.42.2]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B521B11440; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:26:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4247F777.5080708@xbsd.org> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:24:23 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" References: <4245D504.9040004@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <4245D504.9040004@mail.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe FreeBSD 5.4-Beta problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:24:38 -0000 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