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Date:      Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:19:18 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)
Message-ID:  <42D19EE6.20500@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEPOFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEPOFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>  I would bet that if you took that 6600 card to enough DIFFERENT
>systems, you would find a motherboard in which it worked perfectly under
>FreeBSD 5.4.
>  
>
6600 GT in an Asus A8V Deluxe + nvidia drivers (but not nv drivers where 
mozilla corrupts one a day).

Of course it's just *a* 6600, probably from a different manufacturer.

>  This kind of thing is just par for the course in hardware and is
>why the people at Dell and HP that select parts from OEMs for their
>systems get paid the big bucks.
>
Sure.  And to find incompatible power supplies, write new firmware which 
doesn't work properly... ;-)

--Alex




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