Recommendations?

[Florent Thoumie]

Le Saturday 16 April 2005 à 13:43 +0200, Roman Neuhauser a écrit :
> # flz at 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 at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > > > > > Jung-uk Kim <jkim at 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?

	The only thing that is a bit annoying is sound (which has been 
	reported as working, read the other posts). BTW, integrated 
	sound chipset are usually crap.

	ACPI/APIC isn't really necessary (I wasn't using it since DES 
	told it was working with NO_MIXED_MODE commented). The MB has 
	two integrated networking chipsets, and people usually don't 
	care about one not working. And I said I was clueless about USB 
	because I wasn't using it.

	That makes the box usuable (remove "totally" if it can make you 
	happier).

	My point is that a page with FreeBSD/amd64 status on different 
	MBs would be much more useful than "Plz stay away from nvidia, 
	this is crap".

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
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