AMD E-350
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Mon Mar 14 14:41:14 UTC 2011
Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Just a quick question ... I plan to buy a small fanless
> > box based on the AMD E-350 processor. The box is intended
> > to be used for web surfing in the living room, and possibly
> > also as a media player. Is the built-in Radeon graphics of
> > the AMD E-350 supported by FreeBSD + Xorg? Or will I have
> > to install "that other OS"?
>
> I can't say definitively if modesetting will work with the radeon driver
> on FreeBSD, but I can say definitively that it doesn't provide any 2D or
> 3D acceleration.
Good to know. That means it's basically useless.
> On a somewhat related note... I heard that the work the FreeBSD
> Foundation and iXsystems is paying for in regards to KMS
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2011-February/001361.html)
> is limited to Intel GPUs. Can someone please confirm or deny that
> depressing bit of information?
Uhm ... No idea, but if that's true, it might make sense
for me to wait a bit and buy a board based on the new intel
"Sandy Bridge" Core i3-2100T or similar with built-in
graphics. Provided that one's supported then.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much choice when
building a low-noise and low-power surf box for the living
room based on FreeBSD. Atom boards run (mostly), but they
don't have HDMI output with full HD support. AMD E-350 is
not supported by FreeBSD, as you wrote above ... Not much
left ...
Best regards
Oliver
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