Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:55:26 -0500 From: Mike Murphree <w4lna@knology.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <20010831130208.E177B37B40C@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200108310117.SAA26272@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <200108310117.SAA26272@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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On Thursday 30 August 2001 08:17 pm, Darryl Okahata wrote: > "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> wrote: > > It's probably not the Athlon CPU that's the issue for either FreeBSD or > > Linux, but the motherboard chip sets. From personal experience, the > > first Linux 2.4 kernels weren't very happy with VIA chip sets, which are > > commonly used for Athlon boards. It's mainly IDE issues (e.g. > > UDMA-66/100 support). > > Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 > chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such > motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the > difference?). For more info, check out: > > http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html Funny, but I've had one of those for a few months with no problems at all. Then again, I don't have one of those piece of crap SoundBlaster Live! cards they mention in my system either.... Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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