From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 03:15:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 134E7549 for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 03:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA8B81FE5 for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 03:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-97-206.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.97.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF13C27644; Thu, 14 May 2015 05:07:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id t4E372H1001992; Thu, 14 May 2015 05:07:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 05:07:02 +0200 From: Polytropon To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: Oddball question Message-Id: <20150514050702.184d7650.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <55536BF0.5010706@hiwaay.net> References: <55536BF0.5010706@hiwaay.net> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 03:15:36 -0000 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. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...