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[NEWS] Debian 11 is out
mparnaudeau:
Finally, I got my Talos 2 (second hand machine) recently so I am not just a dreaming follower anymore ;D
I successfully installed Debian 11.4 (kernel 5.10.0-17). Hopefully I am quite familiar with Debian installer because its display was partially corrupted with truncated text and unexpected characters (I started installation with a 17" screen, not large enough?).
I tried KDE Plasma and Mate, installed tools, started to compile few programs, used Firefox a bit ... and also got display from a Radeon HD6570 (and I have received a RX550) but details about that will take place in another section of the forum.
I am not able to test audio, I will do that later. And today, I upgraded to Debian 11.5 (available for 2 days).
Everything works well so far. Ready to enjoy my machine. I just would like it to be less noisy (CPU fans).
MauryG5:
Great job, you can also try Gnome, since Debian has been updated to version 11, Gnome has improved a lot as a graphical environment and has gone from the old 3.30 to my second best version which is 3.38. I don't know how you manage to make the graphics card work with the default kernel or 5.10.x. To run Radeons correctly on that version of Kernel, you need the page size in 4k and by default the Kernels on Power all have 64K. They fixed this bug only later in the Kernel even though I don't remember exactly from that version right now ...
ClassicHasClass:
--- Quote from: mparnaudeau on September 12, 2022, 07:38:30 am ---Finally, I got my Talos 2 (second hand machine) recently so I am not just a dreaming follower anymore ;D
Everything works well so far. Ready to enjoy my machine. I just would like it to be less noisy (CPU fans).
--- End quote ---
Congrats. To get the fan noise down with the default SC747 chassis, make sure your firmware is fully up to date first. My system also has the superquiet power supplies (bought from a third-party) and I disconnected and removed the two rear fans since the HSFs and other case fans are more than sufficient. With these changes, my dual-8 T2 is very quiet most of the time, even under load -- certainly much quieter than the Quad G5 next to it.
mparnaudeau:
@ClassicHasClass Thanks! The chassis is a CSE-732 from MicroSemi and I have no fans except HSFs ones and the power supply. I will have to check the firmware version ... I am not yet familiar with all components.
I don't remember who much noise produces my Dual G5 that is side by side with the Talos 2 :P I will reboot it to install Debian 11 too (don't know when).
@MauryG5 It was reported that the problem was fixed in kernel 5.10.101 and kernel 5.11.12. And this bug was only concerning amdgpu. At the moment, I tried HD6570 that uses radeon driver. Sorry if mentionning RX550 was confusing, let's consider I have not started to test it.
ClassicHasClass:
The SC732 is very similar, though I don't know if it takes the same power supplies. I'd say the power supply replacement was the biggest reduction, but even just getting rid of the rear fan and relying on the front fans helped.
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