Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:22:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon XP configuration Message-ID: <20020306102243.E60972@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020306065044.E78085@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <20020304101512.V78085@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <Pine.OS2.4.32.0203052210001.1254-100000@tenring.andymac.org> <20020306065044.E78085@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wednesday, 6 March 2002 at 6:50:44 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Mar-05 22:15:01 +1100, Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> Abit KG7 motherboard >> >> Keep in mind that this board has a VIA 686b Northbridge, which has been a > ^^^^^ south >> source of headaches (supposedly worked around...). > > The only problems I'm aware of (IDE corruption) have been in conjunction > with the with the KT133A. I don't know of any problems when used with > the AMD761 northbridge. I'm using a system with a 686B, running -CURRENT. I had a lot of trouble running 4.x, but -CURRENT's fine. I still can't get 4.5-RELEASE to install on another AMD MB, though NetBSD and OpenBSD run fine. OpenBSD reports the southbridge as pchb1 at pci0 dev 7 function 4 "VIA VT82C686 SMBus" rev 0x40 It's not clear whether it distinguishes the 686 and the 686B. The motherboard was built last August. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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