On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:44:30 +0000 Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 07:36:58 +0100 > Matthieu Herrb wrote: > > > Stay away from nVidia > > mobile chipsets and from recent AMD integated graphics. > > > > Since AMD's commercial names vs chipset names correspondance is a > > not clear to me, I don't know exactly how to check if a given AMD > > chipset is supported or not. It's also difficult since the driver we > > have in xenocara has code for newer chips which is is not enabled on > > OpenBSD because it requires KMS. So don't trust the list in radeon(4) > > blindly. HD6xxx are for sure not supported. > > > The fullscreen requirement we have means we can avoid that conundrum > (I'm glad you've made me aware of some of the details though), however > the AMD Turion systems I have found with SXGA+ screens are fetching as > much as my sister paid for her brand new laptop, which is a bit hard to > swallow considering the desktop parts that money could buy, though they > do have some metal rather than all plastic and cost a lot more > originally. So I may make an offer or just go back to looking at > Thinkpads again. > > I do prefer the AMD processor architecture but they seem thin on the > ground so if anyone happens to know of any good places to look, I'd > appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Kc > I am running a Samsung np355 with openbsd5.2 not everything is working but I have got the most I need. I replaced the wifi card with an iwn in order to make it work. Little dmesg outputs: ---- bios0: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 355V4C/355V4X/355V5C/355V5X/356V4C/356V4X/356V5C/356V5X/3445VC/ ---- cpu0: AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics , 1896.77 MHz samsung$ dmesg |grep unk pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1410 rev 0x00 vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x9903 rev 0x00 azalia0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x9902 rev 0x00: msi ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1412 rev 0x00: msi vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x6840 (class display subclass VGA, rev 0x00) at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured ppb1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1414 rev 0x00: msi ppb2 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1415 rev 0x00: msi pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1400 rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1401 rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1402 rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1403 rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 24 function 4 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1404 rev 0x00 pchb6 at pci0 dev 24 function 5 vendor "AMD", unknown product 0x1405 rev 0x00 samsung$ dmesg |grep not vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x6840 (class display subclass VGA, rev 0x00) at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured "AMD Hudson-2 xHCI" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 not configured -- ole <ole.hellqv...@gmail.com>
