From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 19 02:17:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE3A16A4D0; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:17:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F0743D49; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:17:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from dwp.des.no (37.80-203-228.nextgentel.com [80.203.228.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DE338C5; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:18:36 +0200 (MEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id D0A4FB85E; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:17:55 +0200 (CEST) To: amd64@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:17:55 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: NO_MIXED_MODE X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:17:57 -0000 I just got an ASUS SK8N motherboard that has the problematic nForce 3 chipset. It runs 5.3 BETA4 fine, except you have to boot it in safe mode because the APIC only works properly in mixed mode, and GENERIC has the NO_MIXED_MODE option. Took me quite a while to figure that out... Should we consider removing that option for 5.3-RELEASE? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no