From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 09:37:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4718816A407 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:37:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C1913C459 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:37:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.66) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1H6NjZ-0002Je-E9>; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:02:29 +0100 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.66) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1H6NjZ-0000QZ-D1>; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:02:29 +0100 Message-ID: <45AB4326.8020806@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:02:30 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Freie =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Berlin?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061229) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 Subject: Xorg (nv) on nForce405/GeForce6100 based box and FreeBSD 6.2 support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:37:37 -0000 Hello. One of my customers ordered a bunch of nVidia nForce405-based desktop boxes (ASROCK AM2NF6G-VSTA) and some of them are supposed to be running FreeBSD 6.2. FreeBSD 6.2 seems to have problems with the identification of the NIC (although I use the nve() driver), obviously neither nfe() nor nve() do support the built in NIC (is it different from the one used by the other nForce4 based motherboards or is it simply an identification issue?). The other question regards to Xorg/X11 support. It also seems that the Xorg 6.9 Server's "nv" nVidia driver does not support/recognize the integrated chipset, but when Xserver dumps its moans about a missing driver I see GeForce 6100/6200 and some nForce420 chipsets supported, unfortunately not nForce405. Is there a solution underway? Ubuntu Linux seems to run fine on those boxes (although I did not do deeper investigations because I'm not familiar with Linux and the point is I need to run the boxes as 64Bit only for some development purposes). I appreciate any comments and maybe workarounds, regards Oliver -- O. Hartmann