On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:30:56PM +0100, M M wrote: > Machine: Laptop Toshiba Satellite L555.11L > Graphics card: ATI Mobility radeon HD 5165 > Release: dfly-x86_64-gui-3.2.2_REL.iso > > PS One of the reasons which pushed me to try DragonFly BSD was the > difficult to find a BSD OS that runs X on my machine. I have read in > someplace that the BSD OSs have problems with the graphics cards ATI > Mobility Radeon HD 5 serie and also with some of the (other) latest ATI > cards. I have tried many of these OSs and the results were:
The pkgsrc version of xf86-video-ati is from 2009 and far too old to support your hardware. You could try using the new dports frameworks, it includes a much newer xf86-video-ati release. This requires an update to DragonFly-3.3 (development version) first. -- Francois Tigeot
