Does FreeBSD work with "SB Live" and "GeForce"?

[Gary Kline]

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 <kline at tao.thought.org> 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





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