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General Hardware Discussion / Re: 2u Blackbird Build with 18 cores?!

« on: April 29, 2020, 07:16:10 pm »

From my experience I can tell, that a 4-core even clock 3.8GHz at 110°C/ 230°F. I don't know if this behavior is normal. But that's it.

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: April 27, 2020, 12:48:06 pm »

You could use the cvt command to look if the 1200 modelines has changed.
Otherwise, the Xorg logfile would be useful.

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: April 26, 2020, 04:48:53 pm »

It worked until yesterday update (but I think that the Fedora 31 updated just the kernel, not the Xorg?!).

Do you have similar experience?

What's the problem in detail? Does 1080 resolution work?

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Blackbird / Re: Keyboard unresponsive at boot menu (Petitboot)

« on: April 25, 2020, 05:42:31 pm »

I have both GPUs connected to the display.
AST for Hostboot/ Petitboot
Radeon for the OS

Select desired GPU at runtime

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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Build specs for a quiet NAS/file server for serving A/V multimedia to an HTPC

« on: April 25, 2020, 11:51:12 am »

Is there a reason why you chose this mainboard and CPU? Do you already own them?
What is the HTPC for? Should it only contacted to the NAS (playing media)?

If this is the case, why not just buy a NAS? Such as a DiskStation DS1817.

What kind of display you have in mind? Maybe you don't even need a HTPC.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: New Ubuntu 20.04

« on: April 25, 2020, 08:56:25 am »

I hardly guess, you need the patch in any case. Furthermore 20.4 comes with Kernel 5.4, IIRC.

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Blackbird / Re: Regular users issues

« on: April 25, 2020, 08:45:01 am »

So, when I get the Blackbird, will I be able to use it (as a regular user - email/browser) out of the box? or Will I have to learn how to install the OS on this system?

Only if you buy the secure desktop. But you should be familiar with Linux in any case.

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Mod Zone / Re: Low profile heatsink?

« on: April 25, 2020, 08:42:12 am »

Socket name is LGA 2601. There is only the 2U HS from Raptor/ IBM.
q66 has made a custom watercooling solution for his Tyan POWER8 server. It's the same for the Blackbird, because the IBM heatsink for POWER8/ POWER9 are identical.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Ubuntu Server LTS 20.04 is out

« on: April 24, 2020, 08:56:20 am »

Fedora 32 is on it's way, too

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Blackbird / Re: Support for POWER9 22core?

« on: April 22, 2020, 11:12:31 am »

FYI, on the talos IRC is someone who is running a 18-core (190W) POWER9 on a Blackbird. And another one has overclocked a 8-core to 4.3GHz

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: April 21, 2020, 05:45:33 pm »

Yeah, I got mixed up on that one. I thought LaGrange had the most PCIe lanes.

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: April 21, 2020, 09:37:04 am »

[I second that. Please also get rid of all SATA ports. SATA is now a thing of the past or replace SATA with SAS (but I do not think it would be a good idea because of cost factor).

I also think the board should come with at least two M2 port. One is for NVMe SSD and the other for Wifi.

Yes, but the problem is the limited PCIe lanes of the Sforza CPU. LaGrange has more, but is also more expensive for sure.

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: April 20, 2020, 10:18:53 am »

I wish that the future revision of Blackbird would swap position of X8 with X16 slot. Additionally the X8 slot should be open-ended so that X16 card could fit in perfectly without the needs of using adapter card.

Second that and remove the f***ing USB port ...

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User Zone / Re: petitboot error: PHB#0005[0:5]: PHB Freeze/Fence detected !

« on: April 17, 2020, 10:57:48 am »

Great to hear. Do you know what was broken?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Possibility to install Amiga OS 4

« on: April 08, 2020, 10:37:52 am »

That would be great to have AmigaOS running on Blackbird! At the moment, I think that's only possible under emulation ... with qemu since the support of the Sam460 config seems to be good enough. I would like to try ... when I will have a Blackbird (not ordered yet and I don't know when it will happen).

Also AROS and MorphOS should work. They also supports 460ex boards.