Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:55:49 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Shaun Friedle <shaun@insipidity.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe Message-ID: <20040627035549.GA2414@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <1088291718.1018.2.camel@localhost> References: <1088268927.734.16.camel@localhost> <20040626174214.GA263@polands.org> <1088291718.1018.2.camel@localhost>
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On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 18:42, Doug Poland wrote: > > > I currently have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe which is okay - until I turn off > > > ACPI and then I get a "Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while is > > > kernel mode" while booting. I need to be able to turn off ACPI as the > > > nvidia driver doesn't work with it on. > > > > > > The P4S800D-E Deluxe is very similar is features to the P4C800 Deluxe > > > and I want to make sure that it doesn't suffer from the same problem > > > before I buy it. > > > > > Sorry, it does suffer the same problem. I've got an nVidia 5700 > > that's running the XFree86 nv driver because of this issue. > > Hi, > It's a good job I checked first then. Do you know of any boards that > offer similar features, but don't have this problem? > No, I don't. Someone created a webapp that attempted to "rate" the performance of mobos for FBSD. The URL is: http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ I just checked it out and it seems to be stale now. There's a MySQL connect error visible on the page. Also, it didn't rate ACPI compatibility/performance which is something you really want to know. -- Regards, Doug
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