nVidia chipsets?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:41:04 +0100
Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> wrote:

> Do recent socket AM2 nVidia based chipsets work ok with FreeBSD 6.x?
> Specifically:
> 
> MBO DFI, s. AM2, Infinity nF-M2I, nFORCE 4, BUS 2000 MHz, serial
> ATA, RAID, 5.1 sound, DDR 2, 1Gbps, FireWire, ATX 2

The board will be fine. Never ran into any problems with nVidia
boards recently. The only problem I ever ran into was with was the
ethernet chipset. It was originally a bit funky in regards to
deciding to go unresonsive for awhile. Not had any problems in the

> Do ATA & SATA ports, ethernet and sound work? What about an ATI
> graphics card?


The SATA and ATA work nicely on them. Same for the sound and
ethernet. If you want good graphics performance you will want to go
with a nVidia card.

I have been really pleased with the nVidia chipsets under FreeBSD.