From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 3 20: 4:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD98837B417 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 4 Jan 2002 04:04:23 +0000 Received: from cream.org (unverified) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 04:04:23 +0000 Message-ID: <3C352A36.3020504@cream.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 04:06:14 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: nForce Motherboard Chipset Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi and Happy New Year to everyone! I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with FreeBSD and the new nForce motherboard chipset from nVidia, and more specifically the A7N266-E motherboard from Asus? The reason I ask is that the special thing about the nForce chipset is that it comes with many exciting new features like TwinBank memory, and the variant in use on the A7N266E includes all your graphics, sound and networking hardware on the motherboard. The specs of the board are available on http://www.asus.com.tw/mb/socketa/a7n266-e/specification.htm The graphics is reportedly an nVidia GeForce2MX, which should be supported by XFree86 4.1.0 methinks. Networking is a Realtek RTL 8100. LINT in -stable leads me to believe that we have support for RealTek 8129/8139 using the rl driver. Does anyone have any experience with this 8100? What is the rl driver like in general? I had some bad experiences with the rl driver in early 4.0 or 4.1 I think, and saw some terrible performance. This was with a very cheap card though. Anyone else care to comment? Audio is supplied by the handily named "Integrated Audio Processor Unit". Unless someone else is using this chipset/motherboard, I guess I'd just have to take my chances with whether we would support it or not, but apparently includes some very funky Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding (not that it would be much use with my 30UKP speakers!). More information on the nForce is available on http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nforce including some detailed information on the above sound hardware on http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=igp_tech Any experiences with any of the above hardware or any other related comments would be gladly received! You know what it's like trying to buy a motherboard these days! Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message