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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: September 19, 2025, 02:55:02 pm »

You know what Bernie, there are some specific model of Pascal  Nvidia GPU that work without firmware signed and reclock. Pascal is newer that Maxwell.

Let me testing first then i let you know how  WONDERFUL work on Gnu system.

Additionally videolan-dav1d added more acceleration for av1 for powerpc. So this is nice because you can use the powerpc-vsx3.0 acceleration for video hard decode than nvidia-vpu to watch fast and smooth youtvbe or any video on powerpc, as NVK still missing ATM for kepler, maxwell, this news is nice for powerpc video performance. 

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/tags

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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: September 17, 2025, 03:04:58 pm »

Nice that you got reclocked.

Bernie  i testing some GPUs and Drivers to get better perfomance on Raptor Backbird and Gnu Systems, so  my raptor-blackbird it is original raptor SFF-mTX so i like this factor,however i not have much space for big GPUs, so it only fits gpu low profil, single slot, so i have gpus to testing compat to Gnu OS like intel arc pro a40, which at the moment it is not working  as it need some patches on libdrm, but this arc gpu may work OK without firmware but i untested yet. So what i using now is Quadro k1200 which it is Maxwell, maxwell it is newer than Kepler and still do not using signed firmware on host. k1200 it working nice and it compat to NVK 1.4, however Kepler  is only compat to NVK 1.2. Why so import NVK? On Gnu system we do not have a Libre driver for video hardware decoder on Nvidia GPUs, howerver we can use the Libre NVK not just for gaming but for video decoder and encoder for smooth and hight  performance for video play and any vk-software acceleration ready, so this why Maxwell 1.0 shine.

So Bernie GPUs like  780 Ti and 710 is still Kepler, however there are  i high performance Maxwell gpu that do not need firmware y compat to nvk 1.4 as mine it is: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or Nvidia GTX 750, this GPUs it is the best of the best for newer features and performances for Gnu OS.

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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: September 16, 2025, 11:07:32 am »

ok looks like the poor performance on my Nvidia card was due to unreclock, i reclocked to max, and now the performance is amazing overall, now STK is show 50 fps from 15 fps from same  grafic configs. Even i am able to get close 100fps on same line card but more cores, even more it could work better if switch to zink.


EDIT:

blackbird:~$ sudo dmesg | grep  FAULT
[   14.728196] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 3e6684 [ PRIVRING ]

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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: September 15, 2025, 08:00:17 pm »

Thank you RCS for let to know us  that the output is normal.

I  was just worried when i noticed those PCI outputs failed. I was just testing a Nvidia card and started trying out SuperTuxKart and saw that the performance was terrible, only 6fps at maximum performance in STK. So i started looking into what could be wrong and saw those pci failed in dmesg which make me to think that Petitboot  it could be interfering with Nouveau as Nouveau doesn't support 65k.
The Nouveau and Nvidia card work OK, however performance is not much good as i using nvidia k620. Recently Mesa 25.1 added support to maxwell-v1 to use the driver zink, so i hope to get better performance when i got testing.

The other question i have to RCS  is why do those PCI io-failed appear even if i remove the Nvidia card?


thank you bernie for sharing ur output which is same like me.

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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: September 10, 2025, 10:38:32 am »

Hi
Bernie

I using the driver Nouveau and Gnu OS (Trisquel 11), however it looks like Nouveau it not working well on 4K either, as it shown critical pci-allocation-memory.

Can you share please: sudo dmesg | grep failed


Thanks.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc Support in Kernel 6.8

« on: January 22, 2025, 01:20:00 pm »

I got some new conversations with Arc engineers today and there is a light on the horizon to get ARC work without blobs or at least with a reduced dose of blobs. I will testing on coming days and report here later.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc Support in Kernel 6.8

« on: January 18, 2025, 01:53:38 pm »

Intel Arc it can work without blobs, however on xe driver the flag to boot without blobs it is disabled, i talked with intel arc engineer about and they are not interested to enable the flag on xe to boot without blobs(3 blobs).
i915 it has a flag to boot without blobs but i915 driver dont support power9 as xe does. There is another option to nvidia, but last time i asked to nvidia engineers they are not interested ti support power9.
So at the moment i using built-in aspeed gpu on my blackbird, aspeed gpu still good but on 720p monitor.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium for Ubuntu

« on: November 24, 2024, 06:23:35 pm »

Hi
I am  using Netsurf plus duckduckgo-htmlsearch because native libre firmware on gles1.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« on: October 29, 2024, 02:46:20 pm »

I prefer 64K than 4K. I am using 64K on GnuTrisquel  11 GnuLinux (Libre) v6.11 and all wonderful. I think that PPC deserve 64K. Also it is shame for Debian being friendly with blobs propietary all this is happen because Evil Fedora.
Also i am worried  that pocock it selling all ppc machines. = (

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« on: October 27, 2024, 10:20:01 pm »

In order to work 4K from 64K o.s it need recompile Gnu Packages most Mesa.

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Firmware / Re: Idenitfy versions of firmwares

« on: October 21, 2024, 09:03:44 pm »

I have Blackbird Pnor v2.10 from v2.0, however your BMC/PNOR v2.7 looks like  a devel version from where else.
When i first started with my Blackbird i was lost, i didnt know where to start, as PowerPC is different with X86, 2 years later having my Blackbird and investing tons of time in PowerPC knowledge, now my Blackbird works like a Charm and i dont plans to go back to x86.

 Kudos for Raptor! Special Thanks to Raptor Engineering!

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Blackbird / Re: Potential Aspeed slow failure?

« on: September 03, 2024, 12:25:30 pm »

Thats is a known bug on old Gnu Linux version in BMC, so i not remember well which Gnu Linux version it fixed, but it is. I hope Raptor team release a new BMC version with newer Gnu Linux version like v6.0+

Thanks.

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Firmware / Re: Firmware 2.10 for Talos-II and Blackbird available

« on: February 29, 2024, 08:32:01 pm »

Have you Jumped the ASPEED GPU?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Tobias is working on porting GNU HURD to POWER9

« on: January 14, 2024, 05:56:11 pm »

This is an Awesome  news! and a Real Dream to have a Fully Free Software OS in Power9!

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Announcement from Raptor / Solid Silicon Corp

« on: October 22, 2023, 08:55:18 pm »

My wishes it is ReversingEngineering or Hack the 2 Blobs for IBM Power 10 or wait to Power 11 to see what is going on to Condor.
Other wishes to Condor it is Built-in  Kestrel and FSF RYF.