Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:35:39 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Glenn Sieb <ges+lists@wingfoot.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Athlon64... Message-ID: <200505171035.56975.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <42893C38.60202@wingfoot.org> References: <4288F152.6000409@wingfoot.org> <200505170942.47262.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42893C38.60202@wingfoot.org>
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--nextPart1573264.LMRl401oJf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 17 May 2005 10:05, Glenn Sieb wrote: > Daniel O'Connor said the following on 5/16/2005 8:12 PM: > >I'd be reluctant to use it since it has an nForce chipset, I have an AV8 > > here which is working almost flawlessly (The only problem is that vge > > only work when compiled into the kernel). It's running 5.3 on an Athlon= 64 > > 3000+. > > Mm. There is that. Though it's easy enough to download the port & files > onto a thumb drive or floppy beforehand and pop the driver on after the > install. > > It just adds a pre-step to updating the kernel (download & install the > latest port for the driver... do the build/installkernel, then go back > and de/reinstall the port--I'm sure there's a better way of doing it, > but that's what I've been doing.) ?? The vge driver is in the 5.3 GENERIC kernel. I normally make my kernels fai= rly=20 minimal but it seems the vge driver doesn't work properly as a module, only= =20 built into the kernel. Maybe you're thinking of the nvnet driver. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1573264.LMRl401oJf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCiUN05ZPcIHs/zowRAklEAJ9bq/tvpe822BUlIheUNSPOCV2lAACfcqzh zyHCKp6CHeOrEmMwNPwG+7Y= =XMgD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1573264.LMRl401oJf--
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