From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 10 00:41:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB165BB4E4F for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:41:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stoa@gmx.us) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F32715F2 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:41:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stoa@gmx.us) Received: from archlinux.localdomain ([97.66.215.44]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LgZdt-1av9T513Zt-00o1yA for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 02:41:22 +0200 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:41:19 -0500 From: Dutch Ingraham To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphics problems on AMD A6-6400 processor + Asus A68HM motherboard Message-ID: <20160810004119.GC421@archlinux.localdomain> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2 (2016-07-01) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:2ex6Pu4FJZ9eIsdE578auwTmbXSOKiIbVwnDjFQpZhCwcuwAnjZ AGROEBkMIrXvu1r/yc5tFkbYP2l8F4xCHCwSr744vfoeLoSbuehn7VBl29FSU7Ur8L/VNXS LkKgGVhTn7LflkxIbCZ6y79uol0B9e7BkEZWWmJPXPtR+ZBKsoXs9+ScyPh0y6RnoQVHGYq CnRbgDSjUEOGcB7iXRBYQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:dXLXrve+kuk=:u1e8ctS4Hgj745YFpcierG J0oAAdB45ZOvLuaYM0Juwa9Hq/XQsbkJ72wqrxxKToME+XvGvt11e/rIVNhvC+uk6UacgCoPm U1Flk8lnoGhxHhkVP7SwdXo2X9BDpk+5FpObKAa279xPdLTZQPhnQNUz5R1EpCHkk8W+kmDMC MggsQogJSL/cwAUIET7dqV/ew53xnQK4otdiJbvG7UjUWv61czTDsJeuXwYz7v689PA+bnLCB Gfg4ZItHYZrFVZ6ICvq28IqqZf/ILRwloW81avX3JBqn3sPnCKtOYRZqxMqum1MON1u8bVui6 XIF8NF2jZigJ0dAKqXzpga/u5jsQVdbo1xu+643SaihoVGkDydmVUIfx9gDdYi0jPc0Hov2n3 HkWSno8f1iNLKjCmlJ96mlSFID2ijGHUKgnUJ2Z8YFkE2rm4K0UMSgc+Hz1+P5JKqteENjYc6 I3vdta6/VeNet2O/HHvauTT16Wo8gBJNPZtCyUcSzEXryMQJIt6D1cE0LPU+TpFGGifDXboZk AK4XthttV4jaHO5GZx0+8d0f57ZAvxPlfmyv1Xi6P1IvSTmAMnybQMUG/HyCgZF81oNUlQIyL zkAcSu1J53DimBeIuptymHk/xUKLPVDQEqo0OBg69F+0luPOMcHGebilJktkS2pYrBb3OPJCO QJQVpkohdldfWjCtCYRn8kk57Ir8tXAundI960itpsBXd0hF4ciPbFvgv7l6flSENAexPEG1f Jp2/o7RVStL+p8kifJnz5QVlxndHRjvH9uD6HDuN730ARN1CETQ1iew8jrQ= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:41:32 -0000 On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:08:58AM +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I just installed a new Asus A68HM motherboard with an AMD A6-6400 > processor. The board has onboard ATI Radeon 8470 graphics adapter chip. > > I installed a fresh copy of FreeBSD 10.3 amd64, with great hopes that > everything would work out of the box. It did not. The graphics output > under Gnome is skewed - half the text of Applications menu list is > missing and strange streaks appear at a few places on the screen. > > To check whether there was any RAM problem, I ran a couple of passes > under memtest86 with no errors. There are no page fault reports at > boot-time either. > > I then installed OpenSuse 42.1 leap, where the graphics output is > normal. But I want to move back to FreeBSD - that is the only thing I like. > > Can someone please help me try to get normal graphics with the new board > and CPU ? If it is not possible under 10.3, I can wait for a fresh > release like 11.0. But I must get things working normally under FreeBSD, > else all of my money would have been wasted. > > > Thanks for any help. > Manish Jain Check whether your card is supported here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics