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

[Roland Smith]

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

HTH, Roland
-- 
R.F. Smith                           /"\    ASCII Ribbon Campaign
r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l      \ /    No HTML/RTF in e-mail
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/         X     No Word docs in e-mail
public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \    Respect for open standards
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20050429/5f0bafbb/attachment.bin