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From: David Dahlquist <dave.dahlquist@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
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>Number:         79813
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 12 04:40:24 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jul 06 12:26:09 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jul 06 12:26:09 GMT 2006
>Originator:     David Dahlquist
>Release:        5.4 RC1
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
>Description:
Free BSD will not install on my amd64 nForce 4 based platform.  I think it is a problem with the pci express platform.  I have also had this problem with linux distro's.        
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install on an nForce 4 chipset machine.      
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To: David Dahlquist <dave.dahlquist@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/79813: Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:46:37 -0600

 David Dahlquist wrote:
 >>Number:         79813
 >>Category:       amd64
 >>Synopsis:       Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       critical
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 >>State:          closed
 >>Quarter:        
 >>Keywords:       
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 12 04:40:24 GMT 2005
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     David Dahlquist
 >>Release:        5.4 RC1
 >>Organization:
 > 
 > n/a
 > 
 >>Environment:
 >>Description:
 > 
 > Free BSD will not install on my amd64 nForce 4 based platform.  I think it is a problem with the pci express platform.  I have also had this problem with linux distro's.        
 > 
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > Try to install on an nForce 4 chipset machine.      
 > 
 >>Fix:
 > 
 >       
 > 
 >>Release-Note:
 >>Audit-Trail:
 >>Unformatted:
 > 
 
 What doesn't work?  What PCI-Express devices do you have?  What
 bootloader options have you tried?  What Linux problems are you
 referring to?
 
 Scott

From: Ottoman <ottoman@ozen.co.uk>
To: David Dahlquist <dave.dahlquist@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/79813: Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:37:23 +0100

 David Dahlquist wrote:
 
 >>Number:         79813
 >>Category:       amd64
 >>Synopsis:       Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       critical
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 >>State:          closed
 >>Quarter:        
 >>Keywords:       
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 12 04:40:24 GMT 2005
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     David Dahlquist
 >>Release:        5.4 RC1
 >>Organization:
 >>    
 >>
 >n/a
 >  
 >
 >>Environment:
 >>Description:
 >>    
 >>
 >Free BSD will not install on my amd64 nForce 4 based platform.  I think it is a problem with the pci express platform.  I have also had this problem with linux distro's.        
 >  
 >
 
 David,
 
 I have FreeBSD running on Asus A8nSLI deluxe mobo.  The only way I got 
 it going was to disable ACPI during installation (then I took it out of 
 kernel).
 
 I hope this helps.
 
 Omer.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: arved 
State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 6 12:25:47 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout 

The Asus A8nSLI is now listed as supported 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=79813 
>Unformatted:
