Hello. Can I use this video card with FreeBSD? If yes so, where I can driver download? Best regards, Vladimir Vasilenko <vladimir@shumbely.com>
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 14:25 -0700, Vladimir Vasilenko wrote:> Hello. > > Can I use this video card with FreeBSD? If yes so, where I can driver download? > > > Best regards, > Vladimir Vasilenko <vladimir@shumbely.com>I don't know if anyone responded to your question here. I suspect that the latest updates to xorg that have occured in freebsd will support your video card. There is no driver to download for this, it is provided via the xorg installation, but you will have to update your system. You may want to try pc-bsd http://pcbsd.org if you're looking to setup a fully functional desktop-like PC. Sean ref. http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2012/06/cft-xorg-7-7-ready-for-testing/
My laptop has a Radeon HD 5470. Xorg and consoles work perfectly. There is little or no hardware acceleration though. This means no 3D games for sure. I remember videos being rather jerky in full screen as well but with the most recent version of the ati driver, even full HD videos seem to run just fine. The only thing I miss is DPMS support. The screen will go blank but the backlight will never turn off. My workaround is to restart Xorg with the vesa driver and run "vbetool dpms off" from the command line whenever I want to keep the laptop running with the screen off. - Bartosz