From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 7 15:24: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com (c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com [24.20.97.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC5FF37B406 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (fqpszc@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f87MNtc02849; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:23:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) Message-Id: <200109072223.f87MNtc02849@c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mike Porter To: matthew@starbreaker.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hardware Question Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:23:55 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <0109071811440C.29050@sephiroth> In-Reply-To: <0109071811440C.29050@sephiroth> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 07 September 2001 04:11 pm, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > Hi. > > I'm interested in switching from Slackware Linux 8 to FreeBSD > 4.3, but I have some hardware I'm not sure FreeBSD supports. > > Before I switch, I'd like to know if FreeBSD supports either > the Creative Ensoniq (es1371) or SB Live! (emu10k1) sound > cards. > There have been some problems, but as far as I know, they were resolved, and both cards are supported. I know there's people running the emu10k cards. > I also have a US Robotics PCI modem, model 5610. It has its own > controller, and I've used it under Linux for almost 2 years. > Can I use it in FreeBSD? > Shouldn't give you any grief if it has a hardware controller. Recently they have started putting together drivers for winmodems under linux, and some of those will also run under FBSD, but all that is recent (last 6-8 months). Also winmodems are controllerless, that's the problem....if it has a controller, it should be fine. Didn't I just say that? > Finally, my videocard uses an nVidia GeForce II MX chipset. I > can use the "nv" driver in XFree86 4.1.0 under FreeBSD, right? > I use it with no trouble. > If there's an exhaustive list of supported hardware that you > can refer me to, I'd appreciate it. Please reply to > matthew@starbreaker.net try http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.3R/notes.html section 2 contains the hardware list. Of course, this applies to 4.3, and 4.4 is almost ready for release, if you can wait a week. Also, it won't cover the X stuff, becuase that isn't related to freebsd per se. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message