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Firmware / Re: New firmware V2.00 BMC procedure

« on: February 24, 2020, 02:31:11 pm »

Xlinder, I managed to see the Blackbird door, I put the command to enter but nothing, after a while I get this message and it doesn't even let me enter the password ... What happens?

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Firmware / Re: New firmware V2.00 BMC procedure

« on: February 24, 2020, 07:44:33 am »

well, as soon as I have the switch I immediately try to connect to BB and see the IP address via router. I also wanted to understand if there are currently problems in this update or it can be done without problems. I read the ClassicHas article on Talospace and I was worried about telling the truth, I would not like after problems I have problems due to some bugs ...

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General CPU Discussion / Re: Waiting for the new Power 9

« on: February 23, 2020, 03:02:24 pm »

Dear guys from the openPower community, I came across an article today that I think many of them will have already read. This is Phoronix's article about the apete CPUs, apparently a former RedHAt guy who now takes care of Nuvia CPUs, such as Jon MAsters, claims that Power is dead ...! According to him there are no high-level implementations so he died despite the efforts ...! Now I am a little disconcerted by what this gentleman claims because we have seen Power in the last few years always going well in the server field, super compuyter and now he also has a faction of home computers thanks to Raptor ... I therefore wonder how does to support such a thing and declare it in an interview ...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=How-Open-CPU-Importance

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Firmware / Re: New firmware V2.00 BMC procedure

« on: February 23, 2020, 01:18:35 pm »

Well thank you for your information, now I started to understand how to connect at least both computers to the network, I hadn't really thought about it. I will buy a switch and make this connection in the meantime to see if I can get into the Blackbird. Another thing I wanted to ask you, when you are connected, what is the best method to find the IP address of the Blackbird?

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Firmware / Re: New firmware V2.00 BMC procedure

« on: February 23, 2020, 10:28:33 am »

Xlinder so you're telling me that to do this type of procedure you have to connect both systems directly to the router in order to access the Blackbird ... I hadn't thought of that ... I use a device that connects to the router via the electricity network to the socket where I then go to connect this device. So I only have one port actually available for Ethernet ... I should expand that one because I don't have the router in the room where I use the computers so I can't connect directly to the router ... A problem then ... If I use the switch on the device connected to the network do you think I can still do what you say?

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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Where to buy IBM Power9 CPUs in Europe for private individuals?

« on: February 23, 2020, 07:18:00 am »

YES I agree with ClassicHas, unfortunately there is nobody in Europe because they basically don't even know Power in himself. Power systems as servers are there but IBM itself sells them and manages them to companies so they do everything through companies and only for them. Who should they retail if there are no Power systems for the common consumer? I repeat, they do not even know what we are talking about, I in Italy, MPC in Germany, we are a small pack of white flies scattered throughout Europe that we proudly support and buy Power but like us there are few ...! I spoke some time ago with an Ubuntu manager for Italy, when I told him that I had a problem with Gnome and that he was on a Power system, he hardly knew what I was talking about, he told me that the totality of Linux systems in Italy are based on X86 and therefore could not help me understand the problem ...!

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Applications and Porting / Re: Attempt to compile Unreal Tournament 4 on Linux ppc64le - in progress

« on: February 23, 2020, 05:20:58 am »

hello, congratulations very good at trying to compile a game for Power with that graphics engine.  I know that an unrial engine 4 exists as a graphics engine for Power, I saw some videos on YouTube, if I'm not mistaken you could see some demos that ran on TalosII ... It would be nice also to see how Power behaves with this graphics engine, compared to X86,  what differences there are ... I think that optimizing as it should, with the capabilities of Power and its Risc architecture as well as the two vector and altivec units, it can beat the counterpart without problems ...

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Firmware / Re: New firmware V2.00 BMC procedure

« on: February 23, 2020, 03:25:20 am »

Hi ClassicHas, no never done, I never understood how to do it. RAptor did the first update directly to me as I had to send the Blackbird card back due to technical problems. I read the procedure but I didn't understand it very much. Above all, I asked RAptor directly something I don't understand. The procedure says that I have to connect the active heternet port on the BlackBird, the one near the USB ports that we all know, to the internet to get the IP address of the motherboard. My question however is how do I then connect the second computer I need to run the procedure, if the heternet port is already busy for the network? Another problem that I have personally, having as a second computer a Mac with linux loaded in dual boot with Debian, when I am in Debian, if I occupy the heternet port to connect to the Blackbird, consequently I can no longer connect the Mac to the internet because the Mac wifi module is not seen by Debian ... I actually have a few problems as you can see, it's not easy for me ...

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Condor / Re: Technical features

« on: February 22, 2020, 09:05:13 am »

My observation was not aimed at knowing the technical specifications in preview, of course we know that they cannot be given before the release of the working prototype, I was referring only to the fact that apparently, compared to the programs you have established, it must it must have been some problem because the prototype had been announced for the end of last year and instead nothing was seen at the end of last year, even now that we are almost in March. I therefore deduce that there have been technical problems that unfortunately caused this indefinite delay ... Too bad ...

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Firmware / New firmware V2.00 BMC procedure

« on: February 22, 2020, 08:59:28 am »

Guys, I'm not finding discussions aimed at the new BMC update firmware, more generally, in my opinion there is no real complete guide to updating, perhaps because the news is scattered among the old guides and you go to take parts of them. In any case I would like if it were possible, to group everything in one guide because there are people like me who have never entered yet via external computer, inside the Blackbird and therefore I still cannot do anything to update the firmware. Also it seems that someone is encountering critical issues so before starting any operation, I would like to be sure of both the exact procedure and the possibility of doing it or waiting ...

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Condor / Re: Technical features

« on: February 18, 2020, 02:41:39 pm »

It seems that there are problems for this card, nothing has been known about it. The prototype was to be shown at the end of last year and instead we arrived in March and still he is not seen ... Too bad I was very curious to see it soon ...

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User Zone / Re: Sound card enabling

« on: February 18, 2020, 02:39:15 pm »

In any case, there is now and will be used or sooner or later, you just have to wait for the moment they decide to write the drivers for Linux ... It takes a little patience ...

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User Zone / Re: Sound card enabling

« on: February 18, 2020, 01:32:44 pm »

First of all Clemens Ladisch already answered this question two weeks ago ...
Second, why does someone buy a card for several 100$, which does not work under Linux?

You're right about this but at the time by asking Raptor they replied that Sound Blasters usually work very well on Talos and Blackbird so we thought that this would work too and since among all it stood out a lot, then I bought it. .. I didn't think it would be long ...

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User Zone / Re: Sound card enabling

« on: February 18, 2020, 03:49:57 am »

understood, in any case now that it was purchased, I would like to take advantage of this AE-9, or sooner or later they must give support to enable it on Linux. Do you have any idea how I can contact ALSA support, I sent an e-mail, they replied that it is being processed but I still have not received an answer ... do you know anything more by chance? Thank you

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User Zone / Re: Sound card enabling

« on: February 17, 2020, 05:12:48 pm »

but the quality audio not only depends on the DAC but also on the operational amplifiers and the analog section of the card. It is the combination of these characteristics that makes the quality of the audio, not only the DAC is enough ...