Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:43:31 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? Message-ID: <20050416114331.GA17943@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> References: <20050413210855.GA15088@bitsurf.net> <200504131714.20356.jkim@niksun.com> <86fyxt1ovu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050415005850.GB80903@dragon.NUXI.org> <2fd864e050414180911e4e5be@mail.gmail.com> <20050415211600.GA1473@dragon.NUXI.org> <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org>
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# flz@xbsd.org / 2005-04-16 00:23:43 +0200:
> Le Friday 15 April 2005 ? 14:16 -0700, David O'Brien a écrit :
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Astrodog wrote:
> > > On 4/14/05, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > > > > Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> writes:
> > > > > > Stay away from nForce chipsets.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please stop spreading this little piece of disinformation. nForce3
> > > > > motherboards such as the Asus SK8N should work fine.
> > > >
> > > > DES stop spreading FUD.
> > >
> > > I think the point to be made here, is that there are SOME specific
> > > nforce based boards, that work great,
> >
> > There are? Which?? The SK8N that DES will respond to my email is
> > actually high on the "bizzare issues" list.
>
> I have an Asus A8N-SLI (nforce4) Motherboard based box running
> 5-STABLE for some time now. Issues are :
> x ACPI (quite common),
> x Sound (not much a problem since I have an Emu10K1 based sound
> card which is far better),
> x Network (sk0 works fine, but not should-be-nv0),
> x USB (no clue, I'm not using it ATM but firewire works).
>
> The system is totally usable,
You have listed things that are *not* usable, which means the board
is not *totally* usable. Please think a bit about what you post. :)
So, what *does* work on the board? PS/2 mouse / keyboard, ATA,
PCI-E graphics, and that's it?
> I'm totally happy with it.
Good for you. If I bought a mobo and half of its functions were
inoperational it wouldn't fall within my idea of "totally usable".
But thanks for your description, I now know I need to avoid A8N-SLI.
--
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You don't know, man. You don't KNOW.
Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991
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