From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 14:35:28 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 A8D8C16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:35:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F8843D46 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:35:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:9964 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cpp1Q-000Ep7-IP; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:35:24 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471401A9A7; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:35:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (82-197-198-30.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.198.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F0C3701F; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:35:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41E92A29.4090201@scii.nl> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:35:21 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergei Gnezdov , Questions FreeBSD References: <1105760083.669.5.camel@owl2> <41E8ABB9.7000205@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41E8ABB9.7000205@daleco.biz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Will my friend's computer work with FreeBSD? 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: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:35:28 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: >> Motherboard: Asus A7V8x-x, chipset VIA-KT400, with onboard sound, >> LAN, ATA133, USB >> >> > > Doubt that's much of an issue. And, in regard > to your assertation about sound, I've never had > much trouble with sound and FreeBSD, regardless > of the card or onboard chipset, except for a few > cards that weren't listed as supported on the > web site. YMMV. > >> Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce4 MX440SE with TV-out i've recently put FreeBSD 5.3 on a machine with such a motherboard, with a Nvidia GeForce4 MX4000, made Xorg + nvidia-drivers work by using xorgcfg and manually editing xorg.conf afterwards, works fine, although i haven't tried sound at all (that machine became a server, and the videocard went into another machine)