FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>  I would bet that if you took that 6600 card to enough DIFFERENT
>systems, you would find a motherboard in which it worked perfectly under
>FreeBSD 5.4.
>  
>
6600 GT in an Asus A8V Deluxe + nvidia drivers (but not nv drivers where 
mozilla corrupts one a day).

Of course it's just *a* 6600, probably from a different manufacturer.

>  This kind of thing is just par for the course in hardware and is
>why the people at Dell and HP that select parts from OEMs for their
>systems get paid the big bucks.
>
Sure.  And to find incompatible power supplies, write new firmware which 
doesn't work properly... ;-)

--Alex