freebsd stable - Dec 2007 - Motherboard Asus P5N-E SLI compatibility with FreeBSD 7

Hi,

my question is about the Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard. I searched if
this MB is compatible with FreeBSD 7 but I don't have concrete
answer.

So I just want to know if anyone owns this card with FreeBSD 6
or 7 and if it works well.

Thanks in advance :)


morphalus

On Monday 17 December 2007, Fabien Degomme wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my question is about the Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard. I searched if
> this MB is compatible with FreeBSD 7 but I don't have concrete
> answer.
>
> So I just want to know if anyone owns this card with FreeBSD 6
> or 7 and if it works well.
>
> Thanks in advance :)
Last time I checked there was something wrong with the apic.  
hint.apic.0.disabled=1 from the loader got it booting and working well, 
but you loose SMP.

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Fabien Degomme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my question is about the Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard. I searched if
> this MB is compatible with FreeBSD 7 but I don't have concrete
> answer.
> 
> So I just want to know if anyone owns this card with FreeBSD 6
> or 7 and if it works well.
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 
> 
> morphalus
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> 
There are significant differences among the P5 'family, but AFAIK, all
P5(xx) do
work with just about any release of FreeBSD, (we've used 6.2 thru 6.3, all
7.X,
8-CURRENT).

That said, there are MB, 'glue' chipset, and BIOS differences that can
require
special attention or reduce networking or Xorg utility, i.e. - getting a USB 
mouse to play nice (BIOS USB settings), perhaps having an onboard NIC (P5K &
Alantec) that is not supported, and less than optimal graphics adapter choices.

Some (again P5K) rob signal & interrupt lines for the 'faster' of
two PCI-e
sockets in such a way as to preclude effective use of the onnboard PCI slots 
when that socket is populated. Not so if the 'slower' PCI-e (only) is
used.

JM2CW, but, other than their 'bespoke' server MB, ASUS seem to place so
much
emphasis on Win-Gaming performance (or benchmarks..) that the compromises they 
make to 'win' do not make life easy for applying their consumer-grade MB
to *N*X
server or desktop use.

We've had better results and far less hassle for both server and 'power
user'
desktop with comparably easy to find GigaByte MB.

HTH,

Bill