From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 17:42:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7948337B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2CA43E97 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9B0fRof044757; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g9B0fQmj044754; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3DA60298.7060902@ipeg.com> Message-ID: <20021010204002.O44745-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_AUTH_WARNING,NO_MX_FOR_FROM,AWL version=2.31 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, > and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well > with FreeBSD? If your motherboard isn't working, then most likely there is some bios configuration that could be tweaked to fix the problem. That said I'm using an abit kx7-333 with an athlon xp 2000+ and have absolutely no problems at all. > Someone didn't have the same troubles with soltek SL-75DRV2 > > > I've bought asus card because my hp pavillion had a asus card with a via > chipset. I read after that they don't document their boards so that > open source developers can support all the features easily. Whats a > more open motherboard brand? Are Via chipsets the best supported? The > card I'm having trouble with has a acer chipset. > I don't know how well FreeBSD supports the acer chipsets, but I've had no trouble with my via-based chipset. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message