From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 11:51:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF3F16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta1.lbl.gov (mta1.lbl.gov [128.3.41.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D902643F75 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j_guojun@lbl.gov) Received: from mta1.lbl.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.lbl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAOJpPg0010189 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:51:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from lbl.gov (gracie.lbl.gov [131.243.2.175]) by mta1.lbl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAOJpPbI010186; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:51:25 -0800 (PST) Sender: jin@lbl.gov Message-ID: <3FC2613B.563E538F@lbl.gov> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:51:23 -0800 From: "Jin Guojun [DSD]" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: zh, zh-CN, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Louis Munro References: <001101c3b2b8$0df236d0$0300a8c0@gonzoboreas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nforce2 board - is it asking for trouble? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:51:32 -0000 Louis Munro wrote: > Hi, > I will soon be replacing my old pc and I'm looking for advice about the motherboard I should be buying. I'd like to run both windoze (for the games) and FreeBSD on it. > Having a rather limited budget I have been looking at some boards with integrated graphics. The only one that seems decent to me is the Asus A7N8X-VM (see http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X-VM&langs=01) but it uses the nforce2 chipset and an integrated Geforce4 MX GPU. > I've read some of the posts on the list that mention people having problems whith that chipset such as no onboard ethernet support, which I'm willing to live with (I have two other PCI cards I can use for that) but some comments have me confused: should I expect more problems or will it be fine using 4.9 stable and later? Will I have AGP support, 3D acceleration under XFree86 etc? I do not have VM but I have a bunch of A7N8X and A7N8X-X that works excellent under 4.8 and 4.9 RELEASEs. -Jin