From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 14:16:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D1F37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.ipeg.com (mail.windwireless.net [207.170.202.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FCC43E7B for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crsntlvs@ipeg.com) Received: from ipeg.com (206-169-237-150.windwireless.net [206.169.237.150]) by mx.ipeg.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9BLG4V26957; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:16:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3DA73F89.8030403@ipeg.com> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:15:53 -0700 From: Corey Holcomb-Hockin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020811 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jud Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD References: <1034364661.5f3247c0jud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jud wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Durham >To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin >Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:04:33 +0000 (GMT) >Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD > >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Corey Holcomb-Hockin wrote: > > > >>I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, >>and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well >>with FreeBSD? >> >>Someone didn't have the same troubles with soltek SL-75DRV2 >> >> >>I've bought asus card because my hp pavillion had a asus card with a via >>chipset. I read after that they don't document their boards so that >>open source developers can support all the features easily. Whats a >>more open motherboard brand? Are Via chipsets the best supported? The >>card I'm having trouble with has a acer chipset. >> >> >> > >The A-Open AK77Pro runs very nicel with 4.6.2. I'm using >vinum in Raid 1 on it and it's greased lightning. > >A friend who owns an ISP is using it all over his plant also. > >-Jim > >****************************************** > >I noticed someone else in this thread replying that >his A7A-133 worked OK. I have an ASUS A7V333 that >works very nicely. Have you considered that it may >just be XFree or video card problems and not the >motherboard? > >Specifically, what problems are you having? > >Jud > > > A person had a a7v-133 that worked fine. Its a different chipset. I asked about the tvcard problem a couple weeks ago in freebsd-multimedia. It never got solved. Thanks for the help everybody. I'll go through the boards you listed and look up reviews. Corey Holcomb-Hockin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message