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Subject: Re: ASUS a7n266 w/ XP 1800+
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I have an ATI Radeon video card.  X works fine.  The system has NOT crashed since I installed the ATI card.

I still say

>ASUS will NOT provide doc for the chipset, the nVidia nForce 420D.
>nVidia will NOT provide doc for ANY chipset.
>
>AMD provides doc for their 760 series chipset.  I do not know if it
>supports ECC, but, if it does, I recommend you find a MB that has that
>chipset.
>
>I would avoid nVidia chipsets and ASUS motherboards because of their
>refusal to provide FreeBSD developers with docs for the chipset so
>drivers can be developed.

tomdean

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