Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:22:33 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce[34] chipsets? Message-ID: <20050513132233.367d451b@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20050513143948.GH28932@afflictions.org> References: <20050513133601.T5970@geri.cc.fer.hr> <20050513143948.GH28932@afflictions.org>
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On Fri, 13 May 2005 10:39:48 -0400, Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote: > Thus spake Ivan Voras (ivoras@fer.hr) [13/05/05 07:37]: > : Some time ago, there were complaints that nForce chipsets don't work > very : well on FreeBSD - specifically various components like > built-in NIC, sound : card, ACPI... > : > : Is this still true? What about nForce4 (PCI-Express) support? > : > : (I'm interested in 5.x branch only) > > I'm using it right now, under 5.4-STABLE (about a week ago). The > PCI-E graphics card works fine, but randomly the display in X.org goes > wonky: all the windows just go white when they try to refresh. > > Swapping to a text console then back to X.org fixes the problem. > Dunno if it's an issue with FreeBSD, the card, the nv driver, or X.org > itself. My amd64 box, running 6.0-CURRENT, has had only very minor problems related to the nForce3 chipset, mainly some weirdness with ACPI. Other than that, the box works fine; I've experienced no majorly bizarre behavior with it yet. For what it's worth... :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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