[OpenIndiana-discuss] Video cards (or not)

[Paul Floyd]

On 2/21/25 22:03, John D Groenveld via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> 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?
>
I'll go for

vgapci0 at pci0:115:0:0:   class=0x030000 rev=0xc2 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002 
device=0x13c0 subvendor=0x1043 subdevice=0x8877

>> 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>

I use vbox a lot but I'd rather it be "as well as" rather than "instead 
of". vbox virtualisation is good but not perfect. I want full access to 
the CPU which vbox doesn't give.


A+

Paul