From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 19:13:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 035F516A41F for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:13:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDEF43D46 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:13:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA3JD9ew049475; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:13:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EB47DB822; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:13:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:13:08 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: "Felix 'buebo' Kakrow" Message-ID: <20051103191308.GA14713@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Felix 'buebo' Kakrow , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org References: <947F0ED4-0D57-4B7E-AC5D-41C3E4A664F5@buebo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <947F0ED4-0D57-4B7E-AC5D-41C3E4A664F5@buebo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mainboard for amd64 (and some other questions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:13:13 -0000 --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:40:05PM +0100, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a Mainboard for an amd64 desktop machine. I know the =20 > list of supported mainboards on freebsd.org and I'f tried to find a =20 > something with google, but the combination of PCI-Express and fully =20 > (or even mostly) supported seems to be very hard to find. AFAIK, FreeBSD nor Xorg supports PCI-Express yet. > Iam looking for board with a fast chipset (something like the =20 > nForce4), SATA, gigabit ethernet and sound on-board supported in =20 > RELENG-6. Avoid nForce chipsets; they don't work well with most free OS/s. > Can anybody recommend a mainboard? Anything with a VIA K8T800 will work well. I've used an MSI NEO FSR (MS-6702) and a Asus A8V DeLuxe, and they both work. > Aside from this I hear that there's some efford to port the nvidia =20 > binary driver to amd64, so a nvidia graphics card seems to be a good =20 > choice here (game performance under windows is not totally =20 > unimportand to me ;-)). I do like the GigaByte GV-NX66128DP because =20 > it's fanless, reasonally priced and has a realistic performance, but =20 > I'm not sure about it because I have no idea if I'll ever get some 3D-=20 > Support under amd64. Probably not. For supported 3D, get a Radeon 9250. It's the latest supported by the DRI infrastructure in the kernel and Xorg. HTH, Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDamFEEnfvsMMhpyURAsv5AJ4z+KZwTnvLppmJcYizfN9LO5jcnwCfYmSD fGqDX3pYfmJ2k/Gl1tkPu/s= =ZEFE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--