new PC (drivers for graphics, network, PCIe-to-PCI)?

dchmelik

dchmelik

  • GigaByte X870E Aorus Xtreme AI Top system/-logic-board
  • GigaByte GeForce RTX 5090 OC graphics card
  • StarTech PCIe-to-PCI for Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum & front panel (I prefer physical audio interfaces/controls builtin to case)
  • Marvell AQtion AQC113C 10GbE ethernet (two onboard)
  • Qualcomm QCNCM865, MediaTek MT7927, RZ738 wifi
Since OpenRGB doesn't always have everything, I installed Windows to turn off LEDs (graphics card, onboard, RAM) then warm boot to UNIX/*BSD & Slackware. I was told FreeBSD doesn't have these network device drivers yet (NetBSD, OpenBSD do): am I stuck (all slots are full)?
 
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I found a three-year-old Aquantia one and will try compiling, but it was a port that's marked broken...
 
Native Nvidia drivers are available via x11/nvidia-driver

Regarding ethernet, I'd just go for Mellanox or Chelsio - 10G cards are dirt-cheap, so no reason to suffer with vendors that offer bad/no support for FreeBSD...
I'd just ignore that wifi stuff - it's not needed anyways if you have a proper wired connection, especially at 10Gbit. Just disable those in the BIOS.

Never heard of drivers for PCIe to PCI adapters; those should be transparent, the issue is more on the soundblaster side - creative drivers were always rather bad and short-lived even on windows. TBH I'd just go for a more recent USB-DAC/AMP/... that fits your bill and ideally is not from creative. There's much better gear at the same price point available as creative always was only "good enough" for the PC market (and only after yamaha and turtle beach left the stage... I still have one of those glorious double-PCB yamaha cards somewhere in the basement)
 
sko said:
Native Nvidia drivers are available via x11/nvidia-driver
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I'm aware but first need pure (non-X) terminal framebuffer (works for RTX 4090) after I get network, and preferably CUDA without emulation.
Regarding ethernet, I'd just go for Mellanox or Chelsio [...]
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As said, slots are full... what I have is onboard. Maybe I can get USB-to-ethernet meantime?
Never heard of drivers for PCIe to PCI adapters; those should be transparent, the issue is more on the soundblaster side - creative drivers were always rather bad and short-lived even on windows. TBH I'd just go for a more recent USB-DAC/AMP/... that fits your bill [...]
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As explained, not in the least (completely different thing, though system-/logic-board came with one I have no use for): the card is for easier/faster/analogue volume knobs, etc., builtin to case... issue isn't needing better quality than what I chose, rather than physical usability/convenience for generally unimportant audio (I hate software volume control, and external device messes, and am unsure USB-to-MIDI will work if I ever retry my MIDI keyboard for MODs) (could possibly be CD-quality supposedly with minor defects due to electromagnetic fields near card, but eight-bit 44.1 KHz is good enough for me for composing and this card has double to triple some that).
 
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