Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-27 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 13 September 2004 05:54 pm, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 07:09 am, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also try disabling ACPI; I have the same board and this worked for me. Of course, getting the other onboard stuff to work

RE: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-15 Thread Lee Harr
[...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... Do you have an ATI card? No. Matrox G400. Here is what my dmesg is saying: drm0: Matrox

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-13 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:56 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-09-12, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to stick with 5.x so that your

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-13 Thread John DeStefano
On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:56 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-09-12, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to stick with 5.x so

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-13 Thread Lee Harr
[...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com

RE: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-13 Thread Hauan, David
-Original Message- From: Lee Harr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X [...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-13 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 13 September 2004 02:53 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... No, but I have an

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-13 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 13 September 2004 07:09 am, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also try disabling ACPI; I have the same board and this worked for me. Of course, getting the other onboard stuff to work properly has been a whole different challenge ~John Speaking of which, do

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:06 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one of those goofy asus A7N8X motherboards. I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 12 September 2004 12:10 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:06 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? (one without firewire, for instance...) Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Lee Harr
I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. Yea, that is the exact same board I have.

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread freebsd
I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried disabling firewire in bios? Gary Lee Harr wrote: I tried the Boot with ACPI disabled choice from the bootloader, but that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but I will give that a try. Recently I

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 12 September 2004 07:26 am, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Lee Harr
Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. ... Well... my thought was [...] On 2004-09-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried