From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 08:10:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0741216A400 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:10:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivan@careytech.com.au) Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7817813C4B9 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:10:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivan@careytech.com.au) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.14,393,1170595800"; d="scan'208";a="113237520" Received: from ppp154-213.static.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.2]) ([150.101.154.213]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 11 Apr 2007 17:40:44 +0930 Message-ID: <461C9802.9060109@careytech.com.au> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:10:42 +1000 From: Ivan Carey User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: youshi10@u.washington.edu References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard Chipset Support List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ivan@careytech.com.au List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:10:48 -0000 youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: > >> I am having troubling installing FreeBSD 6.2 Release on and Intel >> DG965OT >> >> http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965OT/index.htm >> >> Which uses the Intel® G965 Chipset >> >> I have checked under the following link but it does not mention >> support for specific motherboards or chipsets. I realize that >> listing motherboards would be to exhaustive but chipsets maybe would >> be more of a limited scope. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html >> >> Does FreeBSD provide a list for Chipsets? Is there a man page I can >> look at like the other drivers listed on that page have man pages >> except for Chipsets? >> >> Thanks > > Sean, > G965 is a recent chipset, so I suggest that you download a > snapshot build of the livecd and install using that. The snapshot > folder is located at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/. > -Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hello Sean, I recently asked the same question at www.expert-exchange.com and the answer I received is that the board is supported. have a look at the product brief for the mother board http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/g965/prod_brief.pdf it says the the I/O controller hub is an ICH8 and the FreeBSD 6.2 release notes for the ata(4) driver http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE I am still learning myself how to understand the release notes. Ivan