From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 6 20:57:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from consult-scs.com (vpn.consult-scs.com [216.218.207.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7725737B405 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from consult-scs.com ([192.168.2.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by consult-scs.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g573vlG3030726; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D002EF7.3040601@consult-scs.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:56:39 -0700 From: Jonathan Feally User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas D. Dean" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS a7n266 w/ XP 1800+ References: <200206060518.g565IKm8003341@asus.tddhome> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The A7n266 Board works great for a rack server where X is not needed - I also have a 1800+ in it with 1 gig of ram It has been up for 40 days - with only about 5 reboots on initial install day and the next day to make sure that it will come back online if it does go down. It is quite solid If you are going to be doing remote administration with X then just turn off the local server in xdm's config file Thomas D. Dean wrote: >I had problems with the ASUS A7N266-E w/ AMD XP 1800. > >The on-board vga is not supported in FreeBSD and causes a system >freeze. > >ASUS will NOT provide doc for the chipset, the nVidia nForce 420D. >nVidia will NOT provide doc for ANY chipset. > >AMD provides doc for their 760 series chipset. I do not know if it >supports ECC, but, if it does, I recommend you find a MB that has that >chipset. > >I would avoid nVidia chipsets and ASUS motherboards because of their >refusal to provide FreeBSD developers with docs for the chipset so >drivers can be developed. > >tomdean > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message