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Talos II / For Sale: Talos II Workstation (dual 18-core POWER9, 128 GB, WX9100), BC, Canada

« on: September 18, 2026, 09:19:32 pm »

Selling my Raptor Talos II Secure Workstation (TL2WK2), shipped from Raptor February 2022. Boots and runs clean; selling because I no longer need a second big box at home.

Configuration (as ordered from Raptor, except for GPU):

Talos II mainboard in workstation chassis with PSU
2× IBM POWER9 v2 18-core CPUs (CP9M36), Raptor heatsink/fan assemblies — 36 cores / 144 threads
128 GB DDR4 ECC registered RAM (2× 64 GB)
AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 (4 GB Polaris, works out of the box with amdgpu)
Creative X-Fi 7.1 sound card
1 TB Samsung NVMe - will wipe before shipping

Condition: Fully working.
Cosmetic: the top hinge on the front-panel door is broken, but the door still swings and locks normally. Chassis closing screws show a little wear. No other damage; never overclocked, home use, non-smoking.

Shipping: From British Columbia, Canada. Will ship to the US and EU in original packaging. I'll quote actual cost before you commit. Shipped DDU - buyer is responsible for any import duties. US import duties in particular have changed recently, so do check. Local pickup on Vancouver Island or Lower Mainland welcome and cheaper for everyone.

I'd prefer to sell it whole, but will consider selling the mainboard + both CPUs + heatsinks as a bundle (RAM and GPU separately) if that's what people want.

Message me with any questions, commands to run, and offers.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Wx9100 on Talos II

« on: March 27, 2022, 05:54:18 pm »

Heya all.

(Thank you to MPC7500 for previous help on this.)

I have a Talos II with a WX9100 graphics card installed, direct from RaptorCS. The graphics card displays PetitBoot perfectly every time, and then almost always fails to come back up for the main OS.

I have tried many different things to fix this:
- Different kernel arguments? Nothing seems to help.
- Different distro and kernel versions? Nothing reliable.
- Different kernel page size? I thought that 5.5 with 4k worked well, until it didn't. Otherwise there was no correlation.
- Try nomodest for late kms? Passed nomodeset to OS kernel, faster boot, can’t lsmod amdgpu though.
- Fast reset causing problems? https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Enabling_Navi_10_On_Fedora_31#Disabling_fast-reset Followed guide, no change.
- PCI needs resetting? https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/File:Pcie_hot_reset.sh Ran script with 0000:03:00.01 as the argument (the AMDGPU lspci entry). It jammed after printing “Removing 0000:03:00.01…”.
- USB hub causing issues? Removed during boot, no change.
- Electrical power load issues on CPUs loading main OS? Changed to two separate wall sockets first r the power supplies, no change.
- Bad DP/HDMI connector? Changed converter and cable, no change.
- No access to firmware? Try amdgpu as module, or compiled in w/firmware in image. Rebuilt initramfs after it looked like it failed during install (the Fedora post-install script didn’t like the Petitboot version strung being hex rather than decimal), it doesn’t boot.

I notice that the PetitBoot amdgpu module size is different from the main OS one in my current setup. Other than that I've got nothing. 

uname -a:

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Linux workstation 5.15.0-60.local.fc35.ppc64le #1 SMP Sat Mar 26 17:31:31 PDT 2022 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
lspci:

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000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0000:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Vega 10 PCIe Bridge
0000:02:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Vega 10 PCIe Bridge
0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Vega 10 XT [Radeon PRO WX 9100]
0000:03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Vega 10 HDMI Audio [Radeon Vega 56/64]
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0001:01:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9215 PCIe 2.0 x1 4-port SATA 6 Gb/s Controller (rev 11)
0002:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0003:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0003:01:00.0 USB controller: Texas Instruments TUSB73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller (rev 02)
0004:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0004:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
0004:01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
0005:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0005:01:00.0 PCI bridge: ASPEED Technology, Inc. AST1150 PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 04)
0005:02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 41)
0030:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0030:01:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series] (rev 03)
0031:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0031:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
0032:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0033:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
inxi:

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System:
  Host: workstation Kernel: 5.15.0-60.local.fc35.ppc64le ppc64le bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
    Distro: Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)
Machine:
  Type: PPC System: T2P9S01 REV 1.01 details: N/A
CPU:
  Info: 2x 18-core POWER9 altivec supported [MT MCP SMP] speed (MHz): avg: 2211
    min/max: 2166/3800
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Vega 10 XT [Radeon PRO WX 9100] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: ASPEED Graphics Family driver: N/A
  Display: server: X.org v: 1.20.14 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting
    gpu: amdgpu
  Message: No GL data found on this system.
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
  Device-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 320.2 GiB (22.9%)
Info:
  Processes: 1176 Uptime: 10m Memory: 125.41 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (2.2%) Init: systemd runlevel: 3
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13
dmesg output is attached. The interesting part seems to be after "[drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled."

System config also attached.

Can anyone suggest a known good distro/kernel/firmware version/configuration that I can test against? Or is there anything I'm doing obviously wrong?

Thank you.

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Talos II / Radeon Pro WX 9100 GPU on Any Kernel > 5.5

« on: March 18, 2022, 08:00:06 pm »

Heya everyone.

I have a Talos II with an AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100 (Vega 10 XT, connected to a monitor via DP to HDMI). I've tried several distros on it, but currently it has Debian Bookworm installed (I know Debian best but I would happily switch to another distro if needed).

Everything is fine if I build and use the 5.5 kernel from Raptor's git site - I'm typing this on Firefox LTS in Cinnamon/Xorg. I've set the boot console to be VGA in Petitboot and added console=tty0 to the grub command line. Otherwise there's nothing different or special about this setup.

If I try any other kernel, with 4k or 64k pages and any combinations of kernel boot arguments, the screen drops out some time after the kexek message from Petitboot. I can ssh in, and see that the amdgpu module is loaded, but if I try to start Xorg it complains about no matching screens (or devices, if I remove the xorg conf snippet that specifies amdgpu as the default - 5.5 doesn't need this, though).

I'm happy to use 5.5 for now but at some point I'll need to upgrade to a newer kernel.

Can anyone recommend another known-good combination of kernel and configuration for Vega 10?

Thank you.

- Rhea.