Re: nforce2 (for the zillionth time, I should imagine)
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:25 pm, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I've just purchased a new machine (a micro-ATX machine) with an nforce2 board. After a little searching on Google/Groups it looks to still be pretty much unsupported. Can anybody give a run-down of the how each aspect is? The board I have has onboard GeForce4 MX (which I know will work with the new drivers), onboard sound, onboard network card, etc. Any details would be appreciated. Thanks very much, -lewiz. You could read the chapter in the FreeBSD Handbook for X Window System: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Or you could get the driver from nVidia for FreeBSD, which can be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html The list of supported cards is in the Linux README file, here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4496/README.txt Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 (for the zillionth time, I should imagine)
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:25 pm, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I've just purchased a new machine (a micro-ATX machine) with an nforce2 board. After a little searching on Google/Groups it looks to still be pretty much unsupported. Can anybody give a run-down of the how each aspect is? The board I have has onboard GeForce4 MX (which I know will work with the new drivers), onboard sound, onboard network card, etc. Any details would be appreciated. Thanks very much, -lewiz. You could read the chapter in the FreeBSD Handbook for X Window System: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Or you could get the driver from nVidia for FreeBSD, which can be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html The list of supported cards is in the Linux README file, here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4496/README.txt Best of luck, Andrew Gould I've been looking for an answer for the nForce2 chipset for months in various arenas, including on this list and on -net. Nobody seems to have an answer; in fact, one person's reply on this list was good luck. The drivers to which Andrew refers above are for Linux, not UNIX/BSD, and Linux emulation does not seem to do the trick. You may be able to get away with something on enabling some peripheral drivers such as audio, but enabling the on-board NIC, which has been my main concern, does not seem likely unless someone at nVidia works with a BSD developer to port over the proper drivers. I'd greatly welcome some updated information on these drivers as well, if any is available. ~John __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 (for the zillionth time, I should imagine)
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:02:30AM -0700, John DeStefano wrote: I've been looking for an answer for the nForce2 chipset for months in various arenas, including on this list and on -net. Nobody seems to have an answer; in fact, one person's reply on this list was good luck. The drivers to which Andrew refers above are for Linux, not UNIX/BSD, and Linux emulation does not seem to do the trick. There are definitely FreeBSD drivers that exist for the graphics cards (which my motherboard has). You may be able to get away with something on enabling some peripheral drivers such as audio, but enabling the on-board NIC, which has been my main concern, does not seem likely unless someone at nVidia works with a BSD developer to port over the proper drivers. Reading the manual of my board I've found the onboard LAN is a Realtek 8201BL, which I'm hoping does not count as an ``nvnet'' NIC (I'm about to get check up on this). As you suggested the audio is not NVIDIA stuff (Realtek ALC 650), so I'm hoping I can get this going too. I'm in the process of writing a letter directly to NVIDIA, which I plan on posting, praising them for their work on the graphics cards, while also suggesting they get their asses in gear with the nForce2 support. I suggest you might also do the same. Best wishes. -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
nforce2 (for the zillionth time, I should imagine)
Hi, I've just purchased a new machine (a micro-ATX machine) with an nforce2 board. After a little searching on Google/Groups it looks to still be pretty much unsupported. Can anybody give a run-down of the how each aspect is? The board I have has onboard GeForce4 MX (which I know will work with the new drivers), onboard sound, onboard network card, etc. Any details would be appreciated. Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
