re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-16 Thread matthew green
Phil Nelson writes: > On Wed, 11 May 2022 11:15:42 +1000 > matthew green wrote: > > > do you have anything else handy to test? gpus are crazy stupid > > prices these days :-( > > Hi Matthew, > > My department has several nvidia around and I have not yet found > one that works to the point of

Re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-16 Thread Phil Nelson
On Wed, 11 May 2022 11:15:42 +1000 matthew green wrote: > do you have anything else handy to test? gpus are crazy stupid > prices these days :-( Hi Matthew, My department has several nvidia around and I have not yet found one that works to the point of getting X running. I've tried the

Re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-11 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 11 May 2022 22:00:03 - (UTC) From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) Message-ID: | Would be interesting to see what happens, when in EFI mode you | switch to the graphics mode with the gop command before booting | the kernel Not sure that

Re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-11 Thread RVP
On Wed, 11 May 2022, Michael van Elst wrote: Would be interesting to see what happens, when in EFI mode you switch to the graphics mode with the gop command before booting the kernel One of the first things I tried with my integrated IvyBridge Intel GPU. No change with the gop command in

Re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-11 Thread Michael van Elst
k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: >My suspicion when I first saw this was that in legacy mode >the BIOS is doing some console graphics init (and leaving it >that way) which NetBSD is depending upon, which at least >some firmware either does not do at all, or undoes, or >fails to pass along

Re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-11 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 11 May 2022 18:48:16 +0200 From:Rhialto Message-ID: | I have one of those too in my "new" machine, and I also noticed that | when I booted in UEFI mode, it didn't work properly; but it has been a | while, I don't remember exactly what the issue was.

Re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-11 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 10 May 2022 at 15:44:19 -0700, Phil Nelson wrote: > Is the 5450 too old a device for the UEFI boot only machine or > is there a way to get the BIOS address for the autoconfiguration? I have one of those too in my "new" machine, and I also noticed that when I booted in UEFI mode, it didn't

re: Radeon HD 5450?

2022-05-10 Thread matthew green
Phil Nelson writes: > Hi All, > >I've been trying to get -current running on a new Dell Precision > 3650. It is a UEFI boot only machine and when booting -current > with a Radeon HD 5450 installed (which works great on 9.2 on > an Dell Optiplex 7040) it panics when it can't find the Radeon