VIA K8M800 Asus K8V-MX

[Graham North]

Hello all:
Getting desperate for more information....   Two questions related to 
AMD motherboards and kernel/driver support.   I posted earlier on 
"questions" and drew a blank so hopefully  this might be a more suitable 
forum.    I was planning to buy a new computer and have been eyeing the 
Asus K8V-mx as a candidate.  My googling has not given me much joy in 
determining compatibility issues for FreeBSD.

The chipsets used are the K8M800 and the 8237.   I DO NOT presently want 
to run 64-bit.   Am very happy to install i386 5.4.

1)  Does anyone have experience with whether the VIA K8M800 chipset, 
(includes unichrome graphics) is supported in i386 - it does not appear 
to be supported in AMD64 FBSD.  It seems to be quite a different animal 
from the K8t800 whch apppears to have solid support (at least in the 
AMD64 release).   Although this is an "all-in-one" board I would be 
reasonably comfortable augmenting if necessary with an auxiliary video 
card or nic.   I have a spare nic, and a video card would have to be 
purchased anyway for an alternative board without integrated video.
2)  Is the AMD Cool 'n quiet feature (PowerNow) feature supported while 
running i386 FBSD on an AMD64 processor? (Assuming MB support).

Thanks,  Graham/

-- 
Kindness can be infectious - try it.

Graham North
Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca


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