Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:30:34 -0400 From: "Haapanen, Tom" <tomh@waterloo.equitrac.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: amd64 as an X desktop? Message-ID: <B1D77424948FD611A3B80000C0109EEF017A8A9D@SYNCRO>
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Peter, Do you know whether anyone has tried a Tyan K8S (I think this is an AMD 8000 chipset)? Any chance of SMP support in the near future? K8S has a Broadcom BCM5704C Ethernet chip, ATI Rage XL video and Promise PDC2037x S/ATA RAID. Plus optionally LSI 53C1030 U320 SCSI. Is there any point considering building a machine around this board? Thanks ... Tom -----Original Message----- From: Peter Wemm [mailto:peter@wemm.org] Sent: 03 October, 2003 16:11 To: adridg@cs.kun.nl Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 as an X desktop? [...] If you want to pick up a machine, I've booted FreeBSD on both the asus SK8N and gigabyte K8N Pro (both nvidia nforce3 based). I have not tried the asus K8V or whatever it is called (via K8T800 chipset based). I've been meaning to try out a via based system to make sure there are no suprises. No, we do not have a driver for the onboard nvidia ethernet on the nforce3, but some of the boards I've seen have a realtek 8110 based gigabit ethernet (no driver) or a 3com/marvell gigabit chip (I dont know what this chip is). The ATA driver doesn't recognize some of the SATA or RAID hardware on these boards, but I've been able to use plain IDE drives no problem.
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