www/94593: AMD64 Motherboard Page Update - MSI K8NGM2-L

[Mark Kane]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Synopsis: AMD64 Motherboard Page Update - MSI K8NGM2-L
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> State-Changed-By: pav
> State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 17 10:12:32 UTC 2006
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> You have to run FreeBSD/amd64 to be included on amd64/motherboards page.
> Maybe, one day, someone will start FreeBSD/i386 motherboard list...
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> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94593
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I understand now. However, it was a little confusing because initially I 
thought that page was for listing motherboards that worked with the 
amd64 version of FreeBSD like you said it is. This board wasn't on the 
list, however I had to buy it in a rush and thought that since the list 
was listing the boards that worked with the amd64 version of FreeBSD 
that it would probably work with the i386 version (which has to be run 
anyway for the user's Flash). In other words, I guess I thought that the 
i386 version was a little more mature and that any problems listed on 
that page were for the amd64 version of FreeBSD with those boards.

When I got the hardware installed and went to try things with FreeBSD, I 
noticed some problems similar to other boards on that page with the same 
chipset. Then I thought that the page was a list of boards on the 
hardware side that took amd64 CPU's and that could run FreeBSD 
regardless of being the i386 or amd64 version. That's why I submitted it.

I was wrong about a couple things but the machine is running very 
smoothly now. I had a sound card and NIC from the previous configuration 
all ready to go and it's all performing flawlessly with those and ACPI 
disabled.

Sorry about the confusion.

-Mark

P.S. As a side note, I have an amd64 Giga-Byte board that is listed on 
the page and it's running great on my main workstation with 
FreeBSD/amd64. I love the amd64 version but this user really needs 
Flash, so that's pretty much the only reason the i386 version is being 
run on this new MSI board.