From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 12:12:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFAC106564A for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:12:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DF228FC12 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Dec 2008 12:12:18 -0000 Received: from balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de (EHLO balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de) [131.234.21.37] by mail.gmx.net (mp064) with SMTP; 04 Dec 2008 13:12:18 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/EAFll6VTEmG1qMm4MDqtwncnBI2yt/sYJyxYpoZ OL1cXlDNMUf2HU Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id KBCPWH-000D7K-RF for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:12:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4937C921.20103@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:12:17 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081105 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.18 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20081128234155.0221e263@serene.no-ip.org> <4930D7CE.4080909@psg.com> <20081202220643.72eb52a3@serene.no-ip.org> <4936D0C2.2090306@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20081204095204.GA64194@shark.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20081204095204.GA64194@shark.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.61 Subject: Re: i give up X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:12:21 -0000 Sergey Zaharchenko schrieb: > Huh, I haven't had any serious problems with neither the nForce2 chipset > my m/b is based on (including the nfe/nve Ethernet card) nor with the > nVidia FX 5200 video card. I guess that's because both are quite antique > by now. In general, the newer the stuff, the harder it might be to get > it to work. This might apply to nVidia more than to other stuff, but in > general it's just better to be able to check compatibility, e.g. using a > LiveCD on a friend's machine... OTOH, the "older" is where new problems start, nVidia has several series of "legacy" drivers, and they show various issues if used with recent Linux kernels, or recent X.org server version... The FX5200 is legacy now, supported by the (nowadays outdated) 173 series of drivers -- which relies on compat5x and doesn't support PAE, to mention two issues with that...