From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 5 18:32:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F63816A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:32:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5FE43D5E for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:32:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1BBC872DF2; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1707072DB5; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:32:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Andrew Konstantinov In-Reply-To: <20040705062345.GA2772@andruxa.sytes.net> Message-ID: <20040705112744.N14616@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040705062345.GA2772@andruxa.sytes.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 18:32:35 -0000 On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Andrew Konstantinov wrote: > As you can see, "nForce Memory Controller" is the major issue. If someone could > point me in the direction where I could find some docs or useful articles on > that topic, I'd be very thankful. Its normal and expected. FreeBSD doesn't have specific drivers or vanity attachments for those chips, so they get no driver. They don't need drivers. :) > The other rather troublesome part is with the "nForce MCP-T? SMBus Controller." > I've included: > > device smb # SMB > device smbus # SMBus > > in my kernel, but that didn't improve the situation even a bit. I guess > generic drivers won't work in this case, but I haven't been able to find > anything specific to NVIDIA. Any help will be greatly appreciated. There are sets of chipset-specific power-management drivers, usually ending in 'pm' (liket intpm and viapm). Not sure if there is a nforcepm that someone's written yet. Also nonfatal. > And finally the last issue is with the "display." I have "GeForce MX > 4000 Plus" graphics card which works perfecly with FreeBSD's base > "nv(4)" driver, no problems whatsoever. So, I'm a little puzzled by this > last issue. Perhaps installing ports/x11/nvidia-driver might help? I > haven't tried it because from what I can tell after reading people's > posts on the net, it's a very nasty behaved beast. Also normal. Generally the display chips stay unattached so X or agp/dri can come along later and grab them. FreeBSD doesn't need to attach every single chip and function in the system to work correctly. We can add in 'vanity' attachments that make it appear to attach to something, but it has no function other than to appease paranoid people like you :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org