MotherBoard Chipset Woes

Dev Tugnait dev at unixdaemon.org
Wed Dec 14 08:12:43 PST 2005


The board I have bought does not have onboard video hehe go figure. I
plan on using nvidia anyway but since their aren't any drivers out as
yet I might be forced to run x86 for awhile. I am just worried about the
Marvell Lan chipset.

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 20:21 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:51:25 -0800
> David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > What unsupported hardware?  I'm running an MSI ATI-based motherboard.
> 
> Not unsupported per se, just flaky. Note: this _might_ be related to the
> specific manufacturer and / or model of motherboard that I'm using; I
> don't know. And all this might be history now, for all I know.
> 
> Earlier on, the Xorg support (xorg 6.99.5) for ATI Radeon Xpress 200 gfx
> chipset was unstable, as described here:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3242
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3296
> 
> because the card was unusable at the time, I switched to a external
> card - the nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache. This has worked for me, so I
> haven't tested the Xpress 200 onboard gfx after that.
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Dev Tugnait <dev at unixdaemon.org>



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