ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe FreeBSD 5.4-Beta problems

[Florent Thoumie]

O. Hartmann a écrit :
> Dear Sirs.
> I just tried to install a most recent set of FreeBSD 
> 5.4-PRERELEASE/5.4-BETA1 on an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo. The system has 
> a Maxtor 6B200M0 200GB harddisk attached to the nForce4 SATA connector 
> (due to NCQ) and a NEC 3500AG DVD+RW attached to the nForce4 ATA133 
> connector.
> Booting from installation CDROM is not possible until acpi gets disabled 
> and this stays so when already did make world / new kernel with a most 
> recent CTM set of the kernel stuff.
> It seems that FreeBSD does not know much about the SATA/SATA2 controller 
> (it shows up as ATA Generic). The harddisk shows up as UDMA33 drive 
> (like the DVDRW).
> Performance is crude, copying from DVD while compiling makes the system 
> hang for some seconds on console.
> 
> Sorry, I'm not connected to the net with that machine so I lack in 
> dmesg-output.
> 
> I read some time ago about nVidia nForce3/4 issues and I wonder that 
> this is still status quo.
> 
> Compiling kernel without "atpic" seems to leave the operating system 
> inoperable, ACPI seems not to work. My question is whether FreeBSD 5.4 
> will support this type of hardware or maybe 5.5 or will FreeBSD not 
> support this?
> 
> Sorry bothering somebody around here, maybe this has been completely 
> discussed here but I do not read regularily this mailing list.
> 
> Can someone send me hints/tips for a fast kerl config and say something 
> about the trapdoors?

	I'm not sure what's wrong with your configuration but I have
	this motherboard and had no problems with 5.3-R (except acpi
	and broken sk(4) which is resolved now).

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org