Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:48:41 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Holmen?= <oystein@holmen.cc> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard Message-ID: <43BFE2D9.5050208@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20060106171840.A49126@cons.org> References: <5B4D3B12-8528-4D07-9B03-874D0A7A52B5@holmen.cc> <20060106171840.A49126@cons.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000802020502030806030202 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Martin Cracauer wrote: I use the A8N-SLI Deluxe. >Øystein Holmen wrote on Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:03:18PM +0100: > > >>Hi all! >> >>I'm setting up a new server with FreeBSD 6.0. The motherboard I am >>planning to use is Asus A8N-SLI Premium. Does anyone know if the on- >>board ethernet controller (nve(4)) works? >> >> > >Works for me with the newest 7-current commits, but losing carrier >means temporary machine hang. The other GbE on the board works, too. > > Right, nve(4) sometimes stops working, but it seems to have the best performance to me. sk(4) also works, more reliable, but is bound to PCI32 bus. >Temperature monitoring is also functional. > >Be warned that this board even with the newest BIOS does not correctly >do remapping of the physical memory between 3-4 GB to above 4 GB. > > That's bad to read. I plan to upgrade my box up to 4GB RAM. :-( > > >>Also I'm planning on getting this graphics controller: Gainward >>GeForce 6200 TurboCache, PCI-Express. >> >> I use a MSI NE6600 PCIe board, 256MB video RAM. Don't expect high performance without appropriate drivers! > >Works for me, "nv" driver. No "nvidia" driver for FreeBSD/AMD64. > >Martin > > Oliver --------------000802020502030806030202--
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