Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:49:54 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD work with "SB Live" and "GeForce"? Message-ID: <20050429174954.GA69730@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050429115917.0034125f@jacob.6texans.net> References: <20050429004556.GA71140@thought.org> <20050429115917.0034125f@jacob.6texans.net>
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--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > >=20 > > Folks, > >=20 > > 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=20 > > *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=20 > > 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:=20 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 HTH, Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCcnPCEnfvsMMhpyURAuhHAKCppN21BYspnOkFyK1AxUUa4QOBqwCfaUo6 /GRrK4Gq8E9q0k6NQPAr/IA= =Py9D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--
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