Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:34:09 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Mark Magiera <mark@hyow.eu.org> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos? Message-ID: <4211FA51.3060302@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB97509E52BDCB5E39FD14665 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Magiera wrote: > Ok, quick update. I finally bought the mobo (Asus A8N-SLi) along with a > 6600GT PCI-E and while there are a few problems, they seem the kind that > can be ironed out over time. I have the same motherboard with a Geforce 6600 too. > Basically, freebsd installs in both 32 and 64 bit mode but in both > cases, the network card is so unrelaible that half way through a cvsup > (or anything else) it dies and nothing (that I know of) but a reboot > fixes it, this is for the "sk" device. As for the other nic (the nforce > one), I didn't look into it much but it seems there's no driver for it > except one possibly (ports/net/nvnet) but since I'm unable to even do a > simple cvsup with the other card, it's not much use. Also the nvnet > driver is for 32bit mode only. I tried unsuccessfully net/nvnet. > For some further testing, I booted a FreeSBIE cd (to see if the GPU > worked) and X/xfce4 ran on that flawlesly, probabaly not with the nvidia > driver but still good to know. > > Basically, if anyone's going for a 64 bit install with similair > hardware, forget about it if you rely on network access or unless > either the "sk" drivers are updated to a state where they work better, > or you have all distfiles and a recent snapshot of ports on cd. sk(4) driver included in 5.3-R is indeed unusable. It took me some hours to get a fresh src-all cvsup'd. I don't have problems now with this chip, but I think it had issues with DHCP. Not sure though. I'm waiting for new xorg to see if I can run a decent X server because Nvidia hasn't released amd64 version of their FreeBSD driver yet. -- Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org --------------enigB97509E52BDCB5E39FD14665 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCEfpWMxEkbVFH3PQRAi4iAJ9dP7BtCpALMrw+ZaDPLyhZQB+Y5wCfU0KI 7YKJ+X3URyegvAdmokEXW+Q= =H0eA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB97509E52BDCB5E39FD14665--
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