Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:27:22 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD work with "SB Live" and "GeForce"? Message-ID: <20050429182720.GB97403@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050429174954.GA69730@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20050429004556.GA71140@thought.org> <20050429115917.0034125f@jacob.6texans.net> <20050429174954.GA69730@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:49:54PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:59:17AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:45:56 -0700 > > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > I'm looking at doing a build-your-own desktop/tower system. > > > It's an Intel 2.9GHz motherboard with builtin graphics and > > > sound. But to be on the safe side I just want stuff to > > > *work*. So will to order a video and sound card. cAn anybody > > > tell me if FBSD-5.3 works with the SoundBlaster Live card and > > > the "GeForce MX4000 64M" card? Since I can't fiddle with my > > > hardware myself, I'd rather than everything just-works. > > > ...Rather than having to beg favors. > > For the sound driver, look at the hardware compatibility list: > > http://www.nl.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#AUDIO > > Looks like the soundcard works with the emu10k1 driver. > > For the video card, look at the xorg driver manual pages: > > http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/nv.4.html > I googled "geforce freebsd" and find that there is still troubles with thw GeForce cards. The good news is that with a build-to-order, there are a bunch of cards, and it looks like for +$5 Tigerdirect had a FreeBSD supported card. I'll check the x.org wiki pages to be sure. Both sound and video are builtin to the Intel motherboard. But if it is a 915 or whatever, no-joy. On *this* system (an i815), both sound and video work flawlessly. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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