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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« on: November 17, 2025, 07:26:55 am »

I currently also use Ubuntu sometimes as an alternative to Debian, I use both, I must say that 24.04 works well and even runs with its Kernel 6.8.0.X, but I use a Radeon 5700 XT as a graphics card which apparently doesn't work with the new Kernels on Debian 12 and 13 which I still can't use today and I have to use the long-life version 6.1.X...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: October 20, 2025, 05:45:34 am »

The strange thing is that on Ubuntu, for example, kernels older than 6.2 work, using version 6.8 and doing just fine, so I don't understand why Debian continues to have problems after kernel version 6.2. If I try to compile and install the latest kernel on Debian 11, everything works fine, but if I try Debian 12 or later, it no longer works when switching from AST to Radeon 5700 XT. I'd like to know if people like Daniel Pocock, for example, are aware of this problem and could offer me a solution...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Ability to use Nvidia RTX 50XX on Power

« on: October 19, 2025, 04:35:52 pm »

Yes, you're right. After looking at other articles, I realized that they are part of the Volta 100 support that Nvidia gave to Power machines, which then ended in 2024. In any case, I read that from Kernel 6.16 onwards, there should be drivers already available for the latest RTX 50XX cards, but I'll have to see if we can also use them on Power...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Ability to use Nvidia RTX 50XX on Power

« on: October 19, 2025, 08:01:31 am »

Guys, I started this new thread because I'd like to understand where we actually are with Nvidia GPUs, especially the RTX 50XX. I read on a site that you can download specific drivers for our architecture, so I obviously wondered if there might be support for actually using the new RTX 50XX. Do you know anything concrete about this situation? Do you know if it's possible to actually use an Nvidia GPU? The example site I found in the meantime is this: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvidia-driver/redist/nvidia_driver/linux-ppc64le/

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] IBM offers ppc64le/s390x GitHub Actions CI/CD workers for OSS projects

« on: October 18, 2025, 12:47:42 pm »

Yes, very interesting, we hope the developers respond to this opportunity!

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: October 18, 2025, 12:43:58 pm »

Thanks for your report, I just updated to Trixie recently too. The system works well, but unfortunately the problem I had on Bookworm regarding the kernels after version 6.1.X persists. From version 6.2 onwards, something must have changed in the Radeon 5700 drivers and it hasn't been resolved, so I can no longer use the new kernels on Debian. Even the current version of Trixie, 6.12.48, doesn't work the same way as all the others from 6.2.X onwards. The driver must have broken and hasn't been updated since the 5700 is now an old card... I think I'll have to change my graphics card in the future if I want to use the new kernels, but for the Radeon 4 I think it's still early on Power, I'll have to wait for support to arrive and stabilize...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« on: October 12, 2025, 02:59:19 pm »

Prices seem to be dropping, today the 9070XT are available at good prices, it would be interesting to see what the current state of support is on Power...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: October 11, 2025, 11:53:51 am »

Are any of you using Trixie regularly? I'd like to know how it's going. I haven't updated yet.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 43 Beta - please help the community test this release

« on: September 27, 2025, 07:16:29 am »

I think the main problem, however, is the software available on this FreeBSD, as is the general problem for us Power users. So I wonder how you could switch to a system that is likely even less widespread than Linux and therefore will have even less software available. Moreover, how can the optimizations, which are already lacking on Linux, be found on FreeBSD...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: August 28, 2025, 09:20:57 am »

As a distribution, I can say the same. I've been using Debian steadily for a few years now, and I have to say I'm happy with how well it runs on Power. Since version 11, they've improved the overall distro, and now it runs very well on Power. Unlike Fedora, which always has major problems of various kinds, Debian is always stable and runs well. Now, however, I've noticed that Ubuntu has finally achieved excellent stability, and they've finally fixed those major bugs that plagued that distribution for years. The great thing is that performance-wise, Ubuntu is truly the best I've seen on Power. So now I run perfectly on both distributions.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: August 26, 2025, 03:54:57 pm »

I've always installed with the 64K option; I'm talking about when I compile my own kernel. However, on Debian 12, I couldn't do that on the latest versions because it never worked, and I don't know why. I've always had to fall back on the long-supported 6.1.1xx versions because I never had any problems with those, but with versions after 6.2, it never worked on my computer. Perhaps the problem lies in some driver that doesn't work on the Radeon 5700, but I'm not sure exactly. I hope they've solved it with Debian 13...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Phil Wyett & Debian harassment

« on: August 20, 2025, 04:01:28 pm »

But excuse the question, from what you're saying, it seems like they're targeting the developers on our architecture at this point... First with you, now with this other guy... I think we need to report this to the higher-ups, if they exist, otherwise it's going to end badly here...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: August 11, 2025, 03:10:51 pm »

I'm still waiting a bit before updating, what kind of problems are you talking about?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« on: July 29, 2025, 04:50:04 am »

To be honest, I haven't checked this. As soon as I run it and keep it running, I'll check the usage and let you know. 17 GB of RAM is a lot. Do you see it while it's open without browsing, or when you're browsing? Or when you have multiple pages open, let me explain better...

I'm currently browsing this site, and the RAM I'm using with Chromium on Ubuntu is around 4 GB total, with 2.2 GB currently cached. I think the average performance on Debian, which works similarly, is very similar or even the same as what I'm currently using on Ubuntu.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« on: July 28, 2025, 04:33:46 am »

I was trying to see how much RAM Chromium on Debian is consuming, but suddenly, after the latest update, it stopped working again. This time, even deleting the files and reinstalling Chromium didn't fix the problem. I'm currently without Chromium on Debian and honestly don't understand what's going on...

Update: I finally managed to install Chromium on Ubuntu. This is because I finally managed to install the jpeg62-turbo lib library, which isn't included in the Ubuntu repositories by default.
Initially, it would close immediately and not work. I thought it was having problems here on Ubuntu too. Then I decided to delete all the old files that were left over from the old Chromium 87 when I installed it on the old Ubuntu 20. At that point, the browser reverted to factory settings and started working normally. Now I can finally use Chromium on Ubuntu 24.4, which makes it even more complete as a Linux distro on Power.