On 8/27/07, andrewk9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Asus BIOSes are buggy. They cause grief on Linux as > > well with their > > broken APIC tables. With Asus products, I have had to > > set noapic or > > acpi=off to get a stable box when running Linux. I > > guess snv_61 has > > stuff to work around buggy BIOSes? > > They were buggy at one time, but that was a few years ago. I've not had any > problems with the 2 I've got, and they are relatively old.
A8N-VM board. This one is the final nail in the coffin for me. No more Asus! > > I would agree with the comments about the Via chipsets to an extent. Older > Via chipsets are known to be buggy, and the newer ones I would not consider > except for in a basic cheap PC. > It is such a regular thing, there is even a whole section of code devoted to VIA-quirks in the Linux kernel. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
