[buug] Multiple problems
Mark Handley
mjh at aciri.org
Mon Dec 31 22:46:10 PST 2001
>I'm having several problems with my most recent attempt at running FreeBSD as
>my desktop software: 1-the os stoped booting and would stop when the last
>message was the discovery of the parallel port. This happened on an ASUS A7V
>board and neither openbsd nor Linux had this problem. Moving the scsi hd to
>an ASUS P2L97S board solved the problem. 2-kde won't with either 3.36 or
>4.1, having installed using /stand/sysinstall, neither through startx or
>startkde.
I'm running both FreeBSD 4.4R and 4.3R, and XFree86 3.3.6 and 4.1.0.
I have a few Asus A7V boards running FreeBSD. And I'm running Kde 2.1
as I type this.
You'd need to say what the error is with Kde for anyone to help.
The A7V has a known problem with disks; both SCSI and IDE disks suffer
corruption when writing large files. It's a BIOS problem, as Asus
were too aggressive in their North Bridge tuning. There's a Bios fix
available - when I came across this back in April, I flashed
a7v10801b.zip, although that was a Beta release. It's still available
from ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/beta/mb/bios/a7v10801b.zip but
there's probably a production release by now. I wouldn't use an A7V
under any OS without updating the Bios.
Cheers,
Mark
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