Re: Anyone using NetBSD on Dell Wyse 5070 Extended with ATI GPU?

[Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost>]

On Aug 26, 2026, at 10:28 AM, Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost> wrote:
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> On Aug 26, 2026, at 12:24 AM, RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2026, Chris Hanson wrote:
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>>> I have a couple of little Dell Wyse 5070 Extended boxes that I want to turn into NetBSD 11 workstations, but no matter whether I select Intel or ATI grphics in the BIOS config, I get a blank screen once video is brought up during boot and I can't get further in the instll. Is anyone using one of these and if so how did you set it up? Or should I just bite the bullet and use serial console for the installation?
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>> You could just disable the DRMKMS drivers:
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>> https://man.netbsd.org/boot.cfg.5
>> https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/x11/how_to_use_wsfb_uefi_bios_framebuffer/
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> Thanks, I'll give it  shot!

That got things working! I just had to use "userconf disble i915drmkms" and "gop 0" before booting the installer, and then edit my installed /boot.cfg to prepend those to the boot commands, and my little thin clients are running NetBSD 11 quite well even without acceleration!

Hopefully this will give me aa chance to start poking at the drivers so eventually NetBSD can run without these shenanigans.

  -- Chris