Radeon+nForce4 NIC for AMD64

jason henson jason at ec.rr.com
Fri May 20 10:37:48 PDT 2005


Emelianov wrote:

>Dear friends!
>
>Please help me with my new equipment:
>
>FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE/AMD64
>mobo   Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS Socket-939 nForce4 U
>RAM    2x512Mb PC3200 (Dual Channel)
>VGA    PCI-Express 128Mb PowerColor R41A-PC3 (ATI Radeon X700 Pro,TV-Out,DVI)
>NIC    Internal 1Gbps (nForce4)
>
>Look the <#dmesg | grep pci> command:
>----8<-------------------------------
>pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>pci0: <memory> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
>isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
>ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfebff000-0xfebfffff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0
>pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 2.1 (no driver attached)
>pcm0: <nVidia nForce4> port 0xec00-0xecff,0xf000-0xf0ff mem 0xfebfd000-0xfebfdfff irq 20 at device 4.0 on pci0
>atapci0: <nVidia nForce4 UDMA133 controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 6.0 on pci0
>ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
>ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
>atapci1: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 0xd400-0xd40f,0xb70-0xb73,0x970-0x977,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x9f0-0x9f7 irq 22 at device 7.0 on pci0
>ata2: channel #0 on atapci1
>ata3: channel #1 on atapci1
>atapci2: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 0xc000-0xc00f,0xb60-0xb63,0x960-0x967,0xbe0-0xbe3,0x9e0-0x9e7 irq 21 at device 8.0 on pci0
>ata4: channel #0 on atapci2
>ata5: channel #1 on atapci2
>pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 9.0 on pci0
>pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
>pci1: <multimedia, video> at device 8.0 (no driver attached)
>pci1: <multimedia> at device 8.1 (no driver attached)
>fwohci0: <Lucent FW322/323> mem 0xfe9ff000-0xfe9fffff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci1
>pci0: <bridge> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
>pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci0
>pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
>pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 12.0 on pci0
>pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
>pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 13.0 on pci0
>pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
>pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 14.0 on pci0
>pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
>pci5: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
>pci5: <display> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
>----8<-------------------------------
>
>Wich kind of kernel options I need include to my config?
>Or may be some modules need to load at boot time?
>
>I'm already try to load the "radeon.ko" but also can't see any
>positive result. (See the 'pci5' lines)
>
>And more... What do you think about NIC on this m/board?
>Wich options/modules/third party programms?
>
>And the <#kldstat> command output for your attention:
>
>----8<-------------------------------
>Id Refs Address            Size     Name
> 1   11 0xffffffff80100000 7cf120   kernel
> 2    1 0xffffffff808d0000 5ef0     snd_ich.ko
> 3    2 0xffffffff808d6000 2cb00    sound.ko
> 4    1 0xffffffff80903000 28218    radeon.ko
> 5    4 0xffffffff8092c000 8970     agp.ko
> 6    1 0xffffffffa794d000 4add     tdfx.ko
> 7    1 0xffffffffa7952000 1090c    r128.ko
>----8<-------------------------------
>
>Kernel is GENERIC now.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>  
>
Get rid of r128.ko, you would use radeon.ko but the x700 has only 2d now 
support so you could drop radeon.ko also.  tdfx.ko if for voodoo cards, 
drop that too.  By the way the 9800s(IIRC) and newer show as 2 devices 
on one card.

Its sad, but no one no one reads warnings about video drivers on the 
front page of the release notes.  It could be more in depth, but if you 
do a little research and you will find nvidia is really the only brand 
you want to use for 3d on FreeBSD.  Last time I check the nforce agp 
controllers were not properly initilized, so they don't work.  I would 
like to know if nforce chipsets do 3d with the nvidia video drivers from 
the port if any one is listening.  This said the 6600 GT, which can be 
found for around the price of the x700 pro, will wipe the floor with the 
x700 pro.

The nic should work with the net/nvnet port.  If you run current the 
driver is now in the base system.


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