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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:12:19 GMT
From: Mike M <mmcgus@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Success report: FreeBSD 5.4 runs fine on AMD64, Asus K8S-LA motherboard
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>Number:         94945
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Success report: FreeBSD 5.4 runs fine on AMD64, Asus K8S-LA motherboard
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pav
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 26 05:20:12 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 26 13:27:56 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 26 13:27:56 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Mike M
>Release:        5.4-stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I was just trolling your AMD64 page, noticed you didn't have this one.

Motherboard: Asus K8S-LA (Salmon), chipsets Sis964/Sis760.  Everything on the
motherboard works fine (IDE, SATA, ethernet, sound, etc - haven't checked
firewire, though it's detected), EXCEPT that the on-board graphics is very
twitchy: I had to detune it (and turn off all acceleration in X windows) in
order to have a stable machine - once you do this, Xorg starts using a brutal
percentage of the CPU (when simply dragging around windows).  Eventually, I
solved this by installing a $20 video card.  System has been stable - albiet
lightly loaded - since then (2 months).

BTW: Lots of these machines are available as refurbs from HP/Compaq (eg:
Pavillion a1007w-b), because it's essentially impossible to get fast & stable
graphics out of the onboard video (because the memory controller is on the
AMD64, and the onboard video has no dedicated memory) - so people return them
when they find they won't play the games they expected.  I can't say I'd
recommend them, though - there appear to have been quality control problems
with the motherboards (occasional hard-to-track-down random bit errors between
CPU and north bridge on the first one I got), non-adjustable BIOS, etc.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->pav 
Responsible-Changed-By: jkoshy 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Mar 26 06:33:20 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer of the AMD64 platforms page. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94945 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: pav 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 26 13:27:48 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Entry added, thank you! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94945 
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