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Date:      Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:58:53 -0700
From:      Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
To:        Alban Hertroys <dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl>
Cc:        Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors 
Message-ID:  <200109061858.LAA19782@mina.soco.agilent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:09:27 %2B0200." <20010906180929.EEF6D1F75@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> 

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> On 31 Aug, Chris BeHanna wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Paul A. Howes wrote:
>  
> >     Only problem is with the XFree86 4.x Radeon QD driver on boards
> > that have the AMD 761 ("Irongate") chipset as the North Bridge.  X
> > doesn't work correctly on those boards.

     Another minor nit is that healthd, et.al. may or may not work with
AMD motherboards, depending on the temperature sensors used.  In the
case of the ASUS A7M266 motherboard, this motherboard uses the ASUS
AS99127F monitoring chip (I think), which is accessible via the smbus
only.  Unfortunately, smbus (well, amdpm, technically) on the AMD 760
chipset is not yet supported in FreeBSD, even in -current (although
tentative -current patches exist from at least two different
developers), which means that there's no way to access temperature
stats.

[ Still, unless temperature/fan stats are *really* important to you, I'd
  continue to recommend the A7M266.  It's a very nice motherboard.  ]

-- 
	Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@soco.agilent.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
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