Supported chipsets (was: Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?)

2006-01-21 Thread Joakim Roubert
On 20/01/06 15:02, Stuart Henderson wrote: working...VIA usually get recommended when the topic of amd64 boards comes up (you'll find a few posts in the archives about this). Ah, good to know! I will do a better dive in the archives. Generally: you have a better chance of full support if you

Supported chipsets (was: Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?)

2006-01-21 Thread Joakim Roubert
On 20/01/06 21:08, Travers Buda wrote: I think the only real difference between the 8237 and the 8237R is the ability to asynchronously clock the cpu bus and the AGP/PCI busses. Ah, cool! I will see if I can find something that confirms that. Do you thus think the 8237R would work with OBSD?

Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?

2006-01-20 Thread Joakim Roubert
On 2006-01-19 18:49, Stuart Henderson wrote: CPU is fast enough that it wasn't horribly slow, but obviously not as good as it could be. anything else - in my case, the next fastest is a celeron 2ghz (my asrock board has an opteron 146). I haven't seen any reliability problems with it, but

Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?

2006-01-20 Thread Travers Buda
On Friday 20 January 2006 08:02, Stuart Henderson wrote: I'll defer to anyone that has one..! 8237_R_ isn't listed, though 8237 is. I don't know whether the difference is enough to stop it from working...VIA usually get recommended when the topic of amd64 boards comes up (you'll find a few

Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?

2006-01-19 Thread Joakim Roubert
Hi! I have a computer based on this motherboard (more info here: http://www.asrock.com/product/product_775Twins-HDTV.htm), and the OpenBSD 3.8 install CD won't find the disks. The southbridge is an ULi 1573, and since it is not present in the OpenBSD chipset support list, the reason 3.8 won't

Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?

2006-01-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/01/19 14:33, Joakim Roubert wrote: I have a computer based on this motherboard (more info here: http://www.asrock.com/product/product_775Twins-HDTV.htm), and the OpenBSD 3.8 install CD won't find the disks. The southbridge is an ULi 1573, and since it is not present in the OpenBSD

Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?

2006-01-19 Thread Joakim Roubert
On 2006-01-19 15:42, Stuart Henderson wrote: No dmesg, so it's difficult to help you... Even if all you can do is boot the install kernel, save a dmesg to a file, and ftp it somewhere, that's a lot better than nothing. I will see if I can fix that. ULi want an NDA before releasing

Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?

2006-01-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/01/19 17:08, Joakim Roubert wrote: On 2006-01-19 15:42, Stuart Henderson wrote: No dmesg, so it's difficult to help you... Ok, here goes: (there might be typos, since I write down what I read on the screen next to me...) well done :) I have some similar ALi/ULi devices on a

Re: Is it possible to run OpenBSD on ASRock 775TWINS-HDTV S775?

2006-01-19 Thread Joakim Roubert
On 2006-01-19 17:43, Stuart Henderson wrote: vendor Acer Labs, unknown product 0x5287 (class mass storage subclass SATA, rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 31 function 1 not configured Good, it's not hidden behind an unrecognisable pci-pci bridge. Ok, at least that's something! :) Try looking for a BIOS