Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:47:03 +0200 From: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone have any experience of the Abit KV-80 board? Message-ID: <200503201147.05006.andy@athame.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <423CCC7C.60408@freebsd.org> References: <200503200019.39083.andy@athame.co.uk> <423CCC7C.60408@freebsd.org>
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Hi David, On Sunday 20 March 2005 03:06, David Xu wrote: > Andy Fawcett wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've looked through the archives, and googled a fair bit, without success. > > > >Does anyone here have any experience (good or bad) of running > > FreeBSD/amd64 on an Abit KV-80 board? > > > >http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_ > >NAME=KV-80&fMTYPE=Socket%20754 > > > >A. > > I haven't used kv8, but used av8, av8 has lots of bugs in ACPI script, also > FreeBSD can boot and all devices seem be probed right, but kernel will keep > printing annoying messages, vty0 is unusable if you press backspace and > cause > console to bell. ACPI is really failure technology. Thanks for these comments. These points, together with some I received off-list, have been enough to convince me to avoid this particular board. A. -- Andy Fawcett | andy@athame.co.uk | tap@kde.org "In an open world without walls and fences, | tap@lspace.org we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." -- anon | tap@fruitsalad.org
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