Does anyone have any experience of the Abit KV-80 board?

[Andy Fawcett]

Hi David,

On Sunday 20 March 2005 03:06, David Xu wrote:
> Andy Fawcett wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've looked through the archives, and googled a fair bit, without success.
> >
> >Does anyone here have any experience (good or bad) of running
> > FreeBSD/amd64 on an Abit KV-80 board?
> >
> >http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_
> >NAME=KV-80&fMTYPE=Socket%20754
> >
> >A.
>
> I haven't used kv8, but used av8, av8 has lots of bugs in ACPI script, also
> FreeBSD can boot and all devices seem be probed right, but kernel will keep
> printing annoying messages, vty0 is unusable if you press backspace and
> cause
> console to bell. ACPI is really failure technology.

Thanks for these comments.

These points, together with some I received off-list, have been enough to 
convince me to avoid this particular board.

A.
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