Comment by 😎 decant

=> Re: "How sucky is OpenBSD installation for the first time? I..." | In: s/OpenBSD

but surely a 2008 laptop should run the Radeon(4) driver?? I think amdgpu(4) is for newer cards.

=> 😎 decant

2024-05-31 · 8 months ago

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=> 😎 decant · 2024-05-31 at 02:32:

oh I misread you, try disable radeon

=> 💀 requiem [OP] · 2024-05-31 at 08:59:

Yeah, in the end I did, but still couldn’t get it to work. I couldn’t get it to run X11. FreeBSD seems to work as long as I do not enable the radeon drivers. I think Video Ram is toast on the card.

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=> 🌒 s/OpenBSD

How sucky is OpenBSD installation for the first time? I managed to boot up my old laptop (An 1.8ghz Acer from 2008-ish?), and I thought I’d give OpenBSD a crack on it. What do I need to be looking out for, coming from a MacOS / Linux background?

=> 💬 requiem · 9 comments · 1 like · 2024-05-14 · 9 months ago