On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 05:55:27PM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know how well this motherboard works under FreeBSD 5.2.1? > For the most part, it works good.
> 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. > I don't think it should as from what I've read the problem is with > the Intel 845/865/875 chipsets, whereas the P4S800D-E Deluxe uses > the SiS 655TX chipset. > FWIW, the -E board has a better NIC (Intel based, using em driver) and the RAID support is great using the Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller for FreeBSD. I use the Intel ICH5R RAID for Windows RAID support. -- Regards, Doug _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
