From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 18:26:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0778A16A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:26:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3629643D39 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:26:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3TIRSIg097492 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j3TIRRML097491 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:27:22 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050429182720.GB97403@thought.org> References: <20050429004556.GA71140@thought.org> <20050429115917.0034125f@jacob.6texans.net> <20050429174954.GA69730@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050429174954.GA69730@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18++ years of service to the Unix community Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD work with "SB Live" and "GeForce"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:26:17 -0000 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 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