From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 2 01:10:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABA4106566B for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:10:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EA58FC08 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o021A4N1018041 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:10:04 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o021A4Oq018040; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:10:04 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:10:04 GMT Message-Id: <201001020110.o021A4Oq018040@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org From: brian Cc: Subject: Re: i386/126666: [boot] [hang] boot failure for nForce 630i / GeForce 7100 mainboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: brian List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:10:04 -0000 The following reply was made to PR i386/126666; it has been noted by GNATS. From: brian To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, peispud@msn.com Cc: Subject: Re: i386/126666: [boot] [hang] boot failure for nForce 630i / GeForce 7100 mainboards Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:30:04 -0400 I have listed more detailed system specs on PCF-BSD's mailing lists at http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2009-December/003167.html . This bug ( for rather common nvidia and Acer hardware that has been on the market for ages ) is now 16 months old. Is there some hope of a fix? Should I just install Linux over the partition in question? By the way Linux has no problem with my hardware - each and every version I have thrown it's way for the last two years. Do you people actually get users outside of your own small tech community to test the OS ? Not many people use FreeBSD and the answer is not quite as condescendingly simple as you might wish for. The answer is simply that FreeBSD has vile, bottom of the barrel hardware support.