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by **some gu** » Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:22:10

Are mobos with the nvidia nForce2 chipset supported by FreeBSD? I found
an open PR 47311 that claims to have a patch so that the nForce2 chipset
is "recognized"(guess whether it supports the functionality is another
story). Am I correct in believing that this open PR implies that as of
yet fbsd does not support mobos with this chipset, and therefore mobos
with this chipset will not work? Is there a definitive way of determining
whether a chipset is supported?

Thanks

by **Winston O'Bri** » Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:55:01

> Are mobos with the nvidia nForce2 chipset supported by FreeBSD? I found
> an open PR 47311 that claims to have a patch so that the nForce2 chipset
> is "recognized"(guess whether it supports the functionality is another
> story). Am I correct in believing that this open PR implies that as of
> yet fbsd does not support mobos with this chipset, and therefore mobos
> with this chipset will not work? Is there a definitive way of determining
> whether a chipset is supported?

> Thanks

I have an Abit NF7-S which uses that chipset. Only got it really
ready in the last couple of days (Running 4.7-stable, CVSupped last
Friday). I don't know what capabilities come specificly from those
chips. My boot shows many <unknown cards> (see related message).
The generic kernel does not seem to recognize (no dmesg entry) the
onboard sound (PC-97) or lan (Realtek 8201BL) nor the SATA controller.

Winston

by **Bernt Nilsso** » Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:38:53

> Are mobos with the nvidia nForce2 chipset supported by FreeBSD? I found
> an open PR 47311 that claims to have a patch so that the nForce2 chipset
> is "recognized"(guess whether it supports the functionality is another
> story). Am I correct in believing that this open PR implies that as of
> yet fbsd does not support mobos with this chipset, and therefore mobos
> with this chipset will not work? Is there a definitive way of determining
> whether a chipset is supported?

I have an ASUS A7N8X DeLuxe which is based on the nFORCE2. There are
different variants of the chipset though.

I tried FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE first but couldn't get that to boot. Information
on the net told me that 4.4 would boot and so I tried that and managed to
install it. Then I updated to 4.X-STABLE (approximately two weeks ago) and
compiled a new kernel, but this wouldn't boot. So there seems to be
problems with this board and FreeBSD 4.X (where X>=7). I am not a power
user so maybe it is a simple enough problem to solve, but I could not.

Then I tried FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE and that worked "right out of the box". I
upgraded to -CURRENT and now there is support for the integrated
3Com-network inteface. There was still no support for the nVIDIA-interface
when I upgraded to -CURRENT.

I know for a fact that there is support for the integrated FireWire since I
am successfully using a FireWire-attached LaCie hard disk.

I am not that proficient at reading dmesg output but it indicates support
for several USB controllers. There is also some support for AC97 audio
although I have not tried this. The nVIDIA nFORCE ATA133 controller is
supported. Nothing about SATA as far as I can see.

--
Bernt Nilsson
Posted using FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT

by **Bernt Nilsso** » Sat, 22 Feb 2003 05:01:46

> I have an Abit NF7-S which uses that chipset. Only got it really
> ready in the last couple of days (Running 4.7-stable, CVSupped last
> Friday). I don't know what capabilities come specificly from those
> chips. My boot shows many <unknown cards> (see related message).
> The generic kernel does not seem to recognize (no dmesg entry) the
> onboard sound (PC-97) or lan (Realtek 8201BL) nor the SATA controller.

I wasn't able to install 4.7 on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe. The installation hung
during kernel load. I read somewhere that someone had been able to install
4.4 and so I did that and it went well. Then I upgraded to 4.7-STABLE and
thought I had "tricked" the computer but when I restarted with the new
kernel it would of course not work. Therefore I ended up with 5.0, but I
would like to know if you had to use some trick to install 4.7?

Thanks,
Bernt

--
Bernt Nilsson
Posted using FreeBSD 5.0

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nvidia nForce2 chipset mobo and FreeBSD?