Finding a MiniPC with good FreeBSD support for its graphics processor

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This thread started as a question about what what was probably an unsupported miniPC, but I got impatient while waiting for a reply, so I did a little more searching, and stumbled onto this post while searching the FreeBSD Forums for a FreeBSD-compatible miniPC:

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I am using a Mini PC for my daily work and love the little thing.

It's a Minisforum UM560 XT and I'm running FreeBSD 14.0 Release on it as a Desktop computer with KDE Plasma.
Everything works fine for me. Suspend/Resume is no problem and the little thing is super fast.

A bit about the Hardware:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 6 Core 12 Thread
AMD Radeon Vega 7 RX iGPU. This is way way better than any Intel integrated stuff.
32 GB Ram
520 GB PCI ssd

And the best thing it is super quiet. Most of the time I can not hear it. To make it's fan audible I have to put some heavy load on it.

The only thing I have not worked out yet is audio. It has one of this combined Speaker/Headset sockets and so far no luck with
making it work. But will get there only takes a bit longer. In the meantime I use a USB Sound card. This one worked out of the box.

Here are a couple of links with more infos:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeKPvSiNaWM
 
I have just recently installed FreeBSD onto Beelink SER5 with AMD Ryzen 5560U and RX Vega7 and it works (almost) like a charm.

The only missing piece so far is sound, the system detects the sound card fine and shows no errors yet there is no sound when playing music or video.
I guess it requires some tinkering with /boot/device.hints but so far I worked around this by using a USB-C to 3.5mm adapter for which there is a handy USB-C port in the front right near the line-in jack.

Other than that it works great, quite powerful and very quiet overall.
 
FreeBSD 14.0 RELEASE works on this mini pc:

Fujitsu Esprimo Q556/2
Core i5 7400T
8 GB RAM
500 GB SSD (SATA)
Intel HD Graphics 630
Gigabit Ethernet LAN (no wifi)

I bought it as a refurbished pc two weeks ago and everything works very well ... no problems at all ...
 
What is your problem. Do what it tells you in the handbook and it should work out of the box.

If not a few more info's about the problem would be helpful.
 
I use several mini PCs from Shuttle. They are fan-less with Intel integrated GPU. They work perfectly with any operating system.
www.shuttle.eu

XPC slim

In this product group you will almost always find the perfect solution. Although these Mini-PCs are just a few centimetres thick, they are packed full of ingenious and energy-saving technology. For example, do you require a fanless PC or a particularly large number of monitor ports? You will...
www.shuttle.eu www.shuttle.eu
 
about 10 months later, sorry for sorta necro posting. I just bought a Beelink SER5--I think Amazon is closing out as the price was quite good, around $350 including tax for 32G RAM and a 1TB drive, and I don't see any SER5's on Beelink's site.
Anyway, I'd installed FreeBSD and been unable to get sound to work. I put Linux on but today, decided to make one last ditch effort, and I guess my keywords were better than before, as I found this thread. I added the device hints suggested by nivit@ and sound is now working. So, I'm a happy camper thanks to nivit@
 
This works very well with FreeBSD. Have two of them there one is main home computer.
My requirements for choosing this was:
- Must be extremely compatible with FreeBSD
- Very small and quiet (the quiet can be discussed in heavy load as with all small computer fans – but I am ultra annoying on fan sound – so I change the original fan to a quiet one)
- Fast enough

Spec:
HP ProDesk 600 G4 DM
i5-8500T (6c/6t) 2.10 GHz/3.50 GHz
32 GB DD4 3200
1TB nvme
ASUS Xonar U7 MKII USB 7.1 USB External Sound Card (the internal sound card works, but I use an external)
34” monitor in 3440x1440 in 60Hz with the build in CPU Intel UHD Graphics 630 (dual monitor support)

WiFi etc. works, but I don’t use that.
 
I had mine on wifi. The slowness, compared to Linux, isn't noticeable with things like watching youtube, etc. However, I plan to move a lot of stuff off an older tower to this machine, so the 2-5MBs I was getting with wifi wasn't enough, therefore I put it on wired. I would say, that if you're just using it as a workstation, and maybe watching videos, the fact that it's on wifi, not wireless, wouldn't be noticeable. I did get wifi box working, but it didn't seem to help much, and I couldn't get it working on my 192.168.1.0 LAN, it only worked (for me, and I didn't research this very deeply), on its default 10.0.0.1 (I think), network.
 
Yeah, the WiFi-ting.. I don’t use WiFi unless I really really must on Free/OpenBSD as it.. to be nice.. very slow. 20-25 years ago I understood, but today. There is some cards that should be faster, but I have no clue witch.

If someone knows a good fast WiFi card.. please comment :)
 
blanchet said:
I use several mini PCs from Shuttle. They are fan-less with Intel integrated GPU. They work perfectly with any operating system.
www.shuttle.eu

XPC slim

In this product group you will almost always find the perfect solution. Although these Mini-PCs are just a few centimetres thick, they are packed full of ingenious and energy-saving technology. For example, do you require a fanless PC or a particularly large number of monitor ports? You will...
www.shuttle.eu www.shuttle.eu
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I have also traditionally used SHUTTLE XPC , today I use the SH570r6 with i7-11700K CPU as my system for running FreeBSD 15-current
 
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