I previously tried to install 8.0 i386 on an old Asus C3 Terminator which uses a Via C3.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12557
I had a problem with an interupt storm at irq11 that went away with acpi disabled. 7.3 worked fine and that is what I went with. I use openoffice alot and had set up 7.0 stable for packages which did not have a openoffice release.
The interupt problem seems to be fixed in 8.1RC1.
My question is if freebsd-update will upgrade to 8.1 release? I can wait for stable but it looks like most of what I want is in the package repository (including the latest version of OpenOffice).
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12557
I had a problem with an interupt storm at irq11 that went away with acpi disabled. 7.3 worked fine and that is what I went with. I use openoffice alot and had set up 7.0 stable for packages which did not have a openoffice release.
The interupt problem seems to be fixed in 8.1RC1.
My question is if freebsd-update will upgrade to 8.1 release? I can wait for stable but it looks like most of what I want is in the package repository (including the latest version of OpenOffice).