In message <[email protected]>, Paul Floyd via op
enindiana-discuss writes:
>For the moment the PC has Fedora, Windows and FreeBSD on it. Fedora and 
>Windows are using the AMDGPU for graphics. That doesn't work on FreeBSD 

What's the device ID for the AMDGPU?

>(at least all I get is kernel panics). So on FreeBSD I'm using scfb 
>(system console frame buffer, basically graphics with no acceleration).
>
>Does OI have an equivalent to that?

AFAICT scfb(4x) has not yet been ported to OI:
<URL:https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/search.shtml?token=scfb&action=Search&failed=1>

>Plan B would be to access OI from another PC via ssh. Plan C would be to 
>get a cheap video card. Money's not really an issue but I would like to 
>keep my office cool in summer.

Plan D: run OI within a VirtualBox VM.
Configure the guest to use the vbox or vmware graphics controller.
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John
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