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charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: hotmail.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 07 Dec 2016 13:10:56.3893 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Internet X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 84df9e7f-e9f6-40af-b435-aaaaaaaaaaaa X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: DB5EUR03HT256 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Dec 2016 13:11:12.0116 (UTC) FILETIME=[61F30B40:01D2508B] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:11:13 -0000 On 12/07/16 17:30, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Good evening all, > > I have removed my NVidia card in my system, and replaced it with the > subject GPU. On the wiki, it does not list my card, and the wiki seems > to be a tad old - thus this email. When I re-install FreeBSD 11, what > kind of graphics support will I have? VESA? Or? Basically, what can I > expect? The AMDGPU(open source) package seems to work in the Linux world > when I boot a live CD for testing. But I don't have a live CD for > FreeBSD that uses a desktop - and thus graphics. > Hi Dave, As per a post at freebsd-x11 I read a couple of days back, AMDGPU is=20 still downstream in FreeBSD - and will likely remain that way till mid 2017= . If you are looking to run your AMD GPU under FreeBSD, your best option=20 for the time being probably is TrueOS (the successor to PC-BSD). I am a bit surprised that you replaced your NVidia card for a new GPU=20 without first checking on its support under FreeBSD. Regards Manish Jain