amd64 as an X desktop?

[Haapanen, Tom]

Peter,

Do you know whether anyone has tried a Tyan K8S (I think this is an AMD 8000
chipset)?  Any chance of SMP support in the near future?

K8S has a Broadcom BCM5704C Ethernet chip, ATI Rage XL video and Promise
PDC2037x S/ATA RAID.  Plus optionally LSI 53C1030 U320 SCSI.

Is there any point considering building a machine around this board?

Thanks ...

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Wemm [mailto:peter at wemm.org]
Sent: 03 October, 2003 16:11
To: adridg at cs.kun.nl
Cc: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64 as an X desktop? 

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If you want to pick up a machine,  I've booted FreeBSD on both the asus SK8N
and gigabyte K8N Pro (both nvidia nforce3 based).  I have not tried the
asus K8V or whatever it is called (via K8T800 chipset based).  I've been
meaning
to try out a via based system to make sure there are no suprises.

No, we do not have a driver for the onboard nvidia ethernet on the nforce3,
but some of the boards I've seen have a realtek 8110 based gigabit ethernet
(no driver) or a 3com/marvell gigabit chip (I dont know what this chip is).

The ATA driver doesn't recognize some of the SATA or RAID hardware on these
boards, but I've been able to use plain IDE drives no problem.