Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> I agree with everything but the "stability".  The Athlon board I have
> (Asus a7v) sucks for stability.  There are many things that I can do
> to crash and hang it.  It seems that half of the problem is that Asus
> doesn't give one a full and complete description of the chips and
> their addresses (unlike every Intel-motherboard that I have).  If AMD
> truly wants to succeed they have to exert some pressure on their
> cohorts to get with the program.  AMD is very dependent on both their
> outside chip-makers and the motherboard-makers to make them look good.
> (Otherwise AMD is going to be known as "that company that provides the
> CPU's for those fast and unreliable x86 computers.")

Hmm...my board is A7V, too. What is the revision number of your A7V and
when did you buy it? 

> The most recent -current kernels (after Dec 26) don't even finish
> booting my Athlon.  They hang at the "biomask xxxx netmask xxxx
> ttymask xxxx" line.  Those same "problem" kernels boot just fine on
> all the Intel motherboards I have.

With the same graphics card, NIC, and sound card? That sounds quite 
strange to me. -current kernel as of Jan 15 runs well on my machine.

Jun-Young

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