Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:10:59 -0500 From: Dev Tugnait <dev@unixdaemon.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MotherBoard Chipset Woes Message-ID: <1134526259.12592.12.camel@dracula> In-Reply-To: <20051213202149.260c77be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <1134410468.12592.6.camel@dracula> <20051213165125.GA59683@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051213202149.260c77be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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The board I have bought does not have onboard video hehe go figure. I plan on using nvidia anyway but since their aren't any drivers out as yet I might be forced to run x86 for awhile. I am just worried about the Marvell Lan chipset. On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 20:21 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:51:25 -0800 > David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > What unsupported hardware? I'm running an MSI ATI-based motherboard. > > Not unsupported per se, just flaky. Note: this _might_ be related to the > specific manufacturer and / or model of motherboard that I'm using; I > don't know. And all this might be history now, for all I know. > > Earlier on, the Xorg support (xorg 6.99.5) for ATI Radeon Xpress 200 gfx > chipset was unstable, as described here: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3242 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3296 > > because the card was unusable at the time, I switched to a external > card - the nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache. This has worked for me, so I > haven't tested the Xpress 200 onboard gfx after that. -- Dev Tugnait <dev@unixdaemon.org>
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