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revolution
August 3rd, 2002, 16:54
ive been looking around and noticed a few posts about fbsd not having support for nividia and sblive. Is that true?
bdl
August 4th, 2002, 13:02
If by nvidia you mean the actual nvidia 3d drivers, yes it's true, they're not available under BSD...yet. You can use the 'nv' driver under X4 just like any other X install. As far as sblive is concerned, yes it's supported, you just need to add 'device pcm' to your kernel config, compile and reboot. Make sure that the device /dev/snd0 exists (if not, just cd dev; ./MAKEDEV snd0) and you're off to the races. Although I've not looked into it, you may even be able to run ALSA under FBSD...

FreeBSD nVidia Driver Initiative (http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/index.html)
Sound devices under FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-device.html)
revolution
August 4th, 2002, 14:46
thanks, that sounds simple enough :D
elmore
August 4th, 2002, 20:45
bdl is exactly right about the nvidia card, It is supported under X 4.2.0 however you won;t be able to take advantage of its advanced features in FBSD yet. As for the sblive I believe the link below will fix all of your problems.


http://www.defcon1.org/html/Hardware_Articles/PnP_Sound/SB-Live5/SB-Live4/sb-live4.html
revolution
August 4th, 2002, 21:18
thanks, looks easy enough. Now for the install :D
elmore
August 6th, 2002, 22:12
How'd it go, did you get it working yet?
elmore
September 17th, 2002, 23:22
Hey did you guys see that nvidia has now released FBSD drivers! Sweet! Anyone tried them yet?
bsdjunkie
September 18th, 2002, 02:05
are they released now?? Last i heard (yesterday nite) they were just promised to be worked on.

mchopra - Saturday 14th September 2002
I've had a few bits and pieces trickle down to me in the past few days, and finally got them confirmed from other sources, so they should be pretty reliable.
Basically, the latest Linux drivers were released not too long ago, which means the *NIX driver team at NVIDIA now has time to concentrate on getting the FreeBSD driver out the door. Apparently they still have some polishing to do, which I suppose is a Good Thing (TM).
On another note, the UT 2003 Demo for Linux has hit various FTP servers (lots of private mirrors in the comments), so hopefully we'll be able to get that working soon.
soup4you2
February 5th, 2003, 19:14
was this ever resolved....

i guess i can add a final note.. for nvidia you need to download their opengl drivers.. or use the standard XF86 Drivers that come w/ the install.. and for the sblive you just need to put device pcm in your kernel.. and put something like this in your rc.conf

hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=16
hw.snd.maxautovchans=16