From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 6:28:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51C737B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id fAKESdD28470; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:28:39 +0200 Message-Id: <200111201428.fAKESdD28470@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 20 Nov 01 16:27:49 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Anthony Atkielski" , Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:27:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: home pc use In-reply-to: <00cd01c171ac$ca0fa0e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Anthony! On 20 Nov 01 at 11:19 you wrote: > Robert writes: > > > Perhaps this was due to your buggy VIA > > Southbridge, mentioned in another > > thread, IIRC? > > That same "buggy" hardware runs Windows flawlessly. VIA has released drivers for Windows that work around the hardware bugs. That is why this buggy (sans quotes) hardware runs Windows flawlessly. As they (VIA) don't want to release information of what is actually wrong with the 686B southbridge, the people who make other operating systems can't do much to write similar workarounds for these systems. My information is some weeks old, maybe things have changed in the meantime. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Atheism is a non-prophet organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message