=> Re: "How sucky is OpenBSD installation for the first time? I..." | In: s/OpenBSD
Thank you! These are great pointers. It seems like a familiar but slightly different ecosystem, it will be an interesting learning experience!
2024-05-15 · 8 months ago
=> 😎 decant · 2024-05-15 at 08:36:
Oh no! I made some typos! patch follows --.xession ++.xsession --pcidevs(8) ++usbdevs(8)
=> 💀 requiem [OP] · 2024-05-18 at 11:28:
So I gave it a go. I got really stuck with what seems to be some bug with radeondrm — it boots fine but as soon as it loads the video driver the display just crashes. I can get FreeBSD to run fine with what I assume to be just vesa. But I really would prefer OpenBSD, it seems more ... "elegant" somehow? Any tips on what I could do to overcome the radeondrm problem?
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=> 😎 decant · 2024-05-31 at 02:22:
Try diable amdgpu, Scott Lowe wrote this 20 years ago, but should still work the same way:
Boot from the OpenBSD 3.8 boot CD image (I pointed the virtual CD-ROM drive in the VM directly to the corresponding ISO image).
At the OpenBSD boot> prompt, type “-c” (without quotes) and press Enter. This takes you into User Kernel Config, or UKC.
At the UKC prompt, type “disable pcn” to disable the pcn driver.
Type “quit” at the next UKC prompt to exit the kernel config and proceed with the boot process. If you watch the boot process, you will see OpenBSD load the le driver and identify the virtual NIC as le1.
=> 😎 decant · 2024-05-31 at 02:29:
but surely a 2008 laptop should run the Radeon(4) driver?? I think amdgpu(4) is for newer cards.
=> 😎 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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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?
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