From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 27 03:56:51 2004 Return-Path: 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 02C6B16A4D1 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:56:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-208-53-189.new.rr.com [24.208.53.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3424A43D2F for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:56:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (sheba.polands.org [172.16.1.33]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5R439Gk080479; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:03:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5R3txDi002440; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:55:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@sheba.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i5R3tn80002439; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:55:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:55:49 -0500 From: Doug Poland To: Shaun Friedle Message-ID: <20040627035549.GA2414@polands.org> References: <1088268927.734.16.camel@localhost> <20040626174214.GA263@polands.org> <1088291718.1018.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1088291718.1018.2.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:56:51 -0000 On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 18:42, Doug Poland wrote: > > > I currently have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe which is okay - until I turn off > > > ACPI and then I get a "Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while is > > > kernel mode" while booting. I need to be able to turn off ACPI as the > > > nvidia driver doesn't work with it on. > > > > > > The P4S800D-E Deluxe is very similar is features to the P4C800 Deluxe > > > and I want to make sure that it doesn't suffer from the same problem > > > before I buy it. > > > > > Sorry, it does suffer the same problem. I've got an nVidia 5700 > > that's running the XFree86 nv driver because of this issue. > > Hi, > It's a good job I checked first then. Do you know of any boards that > offer similar features, but don't have this problem? > No, I don't. Someone created a webapp that attempted to "rate" the performance of mobos for FBSD. The URL is: http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ I just checked it out and it seems to be stale now. There's a MySQL connect error visible on the page. Also, it didn't rate ACPI compatibility/performance which is something you really want to know. -- Regards, Doug