From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 20:27: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1455C37B42C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA85511; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:56:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:56:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Gerd Knops Cc: Guy Helmer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & ASUS A7V/VIA KT133 chipset Message-ID: <20000825125640.K39208@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000825113028.C39208@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000825032057.13268.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000825032057.13268.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:20:56PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 22:20:56 -0500, Gerd Knops wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 8:34:58 -0500, Guy Helmer wrote: >>> I'm looking at buying an ASUS A7V motherboard (for AMD Thunderbird >>> & Duron CPUs) that uses the VIA KT133 chipset. Does anyone happen >>> to have one of these working with FreeBSD? I noticed Steve Kargl's >>> recent query about a minor problem with a somewhat similar board, >>> the Abit KA7, and I would like to be sure about this motherboard... >> >> We have a bug in the timer code which some of these Athlon boards >> trigger. If you're affected, you'll get thousands of "microuptime >> went backwards" messages. The workaround is to disable APM. > > So far I have not observed that here with the ASUS A7V and a AMD > Thunderbird (APM is compiled into the kernel). To clarify things, I have no evidence that the A7V has ever had this problem. I just said "some of these boards", so Gerd's input is more reliable. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message