Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 22:30:27 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Oddball question Message-ID: <5554155C.2030107@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20150514050702.184d7650.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <55536BF0.5010706@hiwaay.net> <20150514050702.184d7650.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 05/13/15 22:13, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2015 10:27:35 -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> I am running FreeBSD 9.3R-p13 on this box, & love it, everything now >> smooth as silk, all is well. Thus I can't resist changing something up >> to make it even better ;-). This mbd is a mini-ITX Asrock socket FT3 >> board, w/ (soldered-on) AMD Sempron 3850 CPU, jaguar/kabini class, 1.3 >> GHz. There is a newer version of that board w/ a AMD FT3 Kabini A4-5000 >> Quad-Core APU, running at 2 GHz, also jaguar/kabini class. If I were to >> swap out the mbds, how much trouble does anyone think that would cause ? >> I fantasize that it would boot & run fine, given that most of the >> controllers (I/O, GPU) are on chip, so it sounds tempting to me .... >> Anyu thoughts ? TIA & have a good one. > What you're thinking of is actually quite common on FreeBSD: > You move a hard disk to a new system and boot, and usually > most things will work. This also applies if you swap the main > board. As you stated, they're both the same "class". The only > significant difference might be the graphics "card". If you > run X without xorg.conf, it will probably pick up the correct > driver (if the GPU is supported), or abort. Everything else > on the system probably won't be affected. FreeBSD does not > require you to manually install drivers to be able to use the > fundamental functions of a computer - drivers will be loaded > automatically, because the kernel already contains them. As > I said, graphics are the common "problem" here. It might be > required to upgrade the GPU driver (for X, not for the OS) > or install a different one (like when you switch from a machine > with ATi GPU to a machine with nVidia GPU). And if it does _not_ > work well enough to convince you, you can easily switch back. > No need to re-install the OS and all your programs to get rid > of "offending drivers" that keep crashing your system. ;-) The graphics card in on-die with the CPU. See below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_APU_microprocessors#.22Kabini.22_.282014.2C_28_nm.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_APU_microprocessors#.22Kabini.22.2C_.22Temash.22_.282013.2C_28_nm.29 Current CPU is a Sempron 3850, see 1st ref. above. New one would be an A4-5000, see 2nd ref. I just noticed that they are indeed different sockets, but both same family, jaguar kabini. NewEgg says the new CPU is 2 GHz, above ref. says 1.5 GHz, I would need to verify that before trying anything. My current graphics is running as vesa, no acceleration. Neither GPU is fully supported for 3D acceleration. Most 2D stuff works OK (browsing, streaming video). Current GPU is R3 (HD 8280), new would be HD 8330, neither supported AFAIK. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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