On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: Kenneth Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD > > > 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 > > <http://www1.soltek.com.tw/English/product/75drv2.htm> > > > > 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 >
Agreed - my VIA chipset works fine. The board is an A7V-133: johnnyb:~ > dmesg | grep -i via pcib2: <VIA 8363 (Apollo KT133) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 isab0: <VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0 uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 5 at device 4.3 on pci0 usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 I haven't fiddled with the onboard RAID at all. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
