Fabien Degomme wrote:
Hi,
my question is about the Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard. I searched if
this MB is compatible with FreeBSD 7 but I don't have concrete
answer.
So I just want to know if anyone owns this card with FreeBSD 6
or 7 and if it works well.
Thanks in advance :)
morphalus
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There are significant differences among the P5 'family, but AFAIK, all P5(xx) do
work with just about any release of FreeBSD, (we've used 6.2 thru 6.3, all 7.X,
8-CURRENT).
That said, there are MB, 'glue' chipset, and BIOS differences that can require
special attention or reduce networking or Xorg utility, i.e. - getting a USB
mouse to play nice (BIOS USB settings), perhaps having an onboard NIC (P5K &
Alantec) that is not supported, and less than optimal graphics adapter choices.
Some (again P5K) rob signal & interrupt lines for the 'faster' of two PCI-e
sockets in such a way as to preclude effective use of the onnboard PCI slots
when that socket is populated. Not so if the 'slower' PCI-e (only) is used.
JM2CW, but, other than their 'bespoke' server MB, ASUS seem to place so much
emphasis on Win-Gaming performance (or benchmarks..) that the compromises they
make to 'win' do not make life easy for applying their consumer-grade MB to *N*X
server or desktop use.
We've had better results and far less hassle for both server and 'power user'
desktop with comparably easy to find GigaByte MB.
HTH,
Bill
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