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User Zone / Re: Fedora or Suse ppc

« on: August 27, 2024, 02:15:24 pm »

i don't think alot of people use opensuse. I did when I had a blackbird, leap was pretty good I liked it more than fedora but codecs for video playback were a problem unsure if that's resolved now. There was also the issue of missing libraries in the repo needed to build software on occasion. When I used leap I had to use a newer kernel for some ppc64le patches/updates that weren't in the standard mainline leap kernel. Tumbleweed is pretty incomplete, it's near unusable for a desktop imo. Fedora had more software support but I wasn't really a fan of it, it had problems with my mouse when clocked at 1000hz and just didnt feel as solid/stable. most people tend to use fedora or debian though. I used a blackbird as a main desktop, it's not super different from x86 linux imo.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Quake 3 source port with Vulkan renderer (vkQuake3)

« on: August 13, 2024, 03:35:33 am »

Quake3e still needs a bytecode compiler for ppc64le if you were still interested in helping with that.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« on: August 03, 2024, 07:19:27 pm »

when I had my blackbird I only ever used the 64k page size but I wonder if some applications would've performed better or didn't crash under 4k, this was mostly game software stuff but maybe some other things as well. I suppose i'll mess with it whenever power10 rolls around.

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

« on: May 20, 2024, 07:48:46 pm »

well, hopefully it gets working at somepoint because my AMD card loved to blackscreen

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Blackbird / Re: Availability of P9 hardware post-ISA 3.1 HW launch

« on: May 20, 2024, 07:38:05 pm »

who knows, there's some cheaper surplus offerings on ebay and the like. maybe they'll do a liquidation sale on the older boards whenever the new stuff rolls out

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird for sale

« on: December 30, 2023, 08:14:49 am »

sold

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 is here!

« on: November 11, 2023, 11:23:12 pm »

also, since 38 (now on 39) My mouse skips and drops when I use it at 1000hz, this wasn't an issue on openSUSE leap or tumbleweed.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 is here!

« on: November 10, 2023, 02:25:21 pm »

I'm on fedora 38 now and I'm not a fan of it, wish I could go back to opensuse so I hope 39 is a better experience.

EDIT: and i just tried to upgrade to 39 twice and it failed both times.

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird for sale

« on: November 08, 2023, 02:38:06 pm »

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325879471065 listed on ebay

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Applications and Porting / Re: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / openXray

« on: October 28, 2023, 09:23:57 am »

supports call of pripyat and clear sky right now. it's based off X-ray 1.6, and chernobyl uses x-ray 1.0

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Applications and Porting / Re: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / openXray

« on: October 27, 2023, 10:21:11 pm »

yeah i dont know what they did but the merge is broken for ppc64le somehow. Either way me and the other guy gave up and theres another project called IX-ray that should have better support down the line.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD Pro W7xxx series is out folks!

« on: October 06, 2023, 11:23:29 pm »

Why a W7600 and not a RX7600XT?

I’d guess lower power requirements, better binned silicon, and less likelihood of firmware gremlins. That’s been my experience - it can be a roll of the dice with some consumer cards. I had a Sapphire RX 6600 that flat out wouldn’t run stably in ppc64le and had visual artifacts, but an XFX card’s been running without issue or incident for me since kernel 6.1.

this and single slot, blower cooler, and looks better and well not much point of a new gamer card imo.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD Pro W7xxx series is out folks!

« on: October 05, 2023, 10:54:50 am »

yeah i'd like to get the w7600. Should be good enough for the few games that can run on POWER

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird for sale

« on: October 04, 2023, 03:10:26 pm »

Board and cpu

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Applications and Porting / Re: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / openXray

« on: October 04, 2023, 02:42:41 pm »

I compiled it with a newer version of GCC, what error are you getting