Recommendations?

[O. Hartmann]

Florent Thoumie schrieb:

>Le Saturday 16 April 2005 à 13:43 +0200, Roman Neuhauser a écrit :
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>># flz at xbsd.org / 2005-04-16 00:23:43 +0200:
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>>>Le Friday 15 April 2005 ? 14:16 -0700, David O'Brien a écrit :
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>>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Astrodog wrote:
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>>>>>On 4/14/05, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>>>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
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>>>>>>>Jung-uk Kim <jkim at niksun.com> writes:
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>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.
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>>>	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,
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>>>
>>    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?
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>	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.
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>

Indeed, and this 32-Bit hardware AC97 is further crap in a 64Bit system 
and we pay
for this 'beeing lost in furure when we have more than 4GB RAM' and must 
doing
nasty things like memory remapping ...

>	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".
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I aggree, too.