[OpenIndiana-discuss] Video cards (or not)

[John D Groenveld]

In message <55759f1f-1900-4188-8cf4-677538b39257 at wanadoo.fr>, Paul Floyd via op
enindiana-discuss writes:
>For the moment the PC has Fedora, Windows and FreeBSD on it. Fedora and 
>Windows are using the AMDGPU for graphics. That doesn't work on FreeBSD 

What's the device ID for the AMDGPU?

>(at least all I get is kernel panics). So on FreeBSD I'm using scfb 
>(system console frame buffer, basically graphics with no acceleration).
>
>Does OI have an equivalent to that?

AFAICT scfb(4x) has not yet been ported to OI:
<URL:https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/search.shtml?token=scfb&action=Search&failed=1>

>Plan B would be to access OI from another PC via ssh. Plan C would be to 
>get a cheap video card. Money's not really an issue but I would like to 
>keep my office cool in summer.

Plan D: run OI within a VirtualBox VM.
Configure the guest to use the vbox or vmware graphics controller.
<URL:https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/manifest/0/x11%2Fserver%2Fxorg%2Fdriver%2Fxorg-video-vboxvideo@1.0.1%2C5.11-2023.0.0.5%3A20230129T111514Z>
<URL:https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/manifest/0/x11%2Fserver%2Fxorg%2Fdriver%2Fxorg-video-vmware@13.4.0%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20230505T143037Z>

John
groenveld at acm.org