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

« on: October 08, 2023, 09:43:14 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.

Which XFX card specifically?

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General Discussion / Re: WD Black SN850 problems?

« on: October 08, 2023, 09:37:13 pm »

Ditto with a 2TB WD Black SN850X. System wouldn't see it at all in lspci, in either Petitboot or Fedora. It works fine in a USB enclosure, so I'm using it for that, which is kind of a waste of a fast drive.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 Beta

« on: September 22, 2023, 08:16:47 pm »

I got various graphical problems with Wayland GNOME on the AST, like window decorations not painting and the like. It appeared to be cosmetic but it was still very obnoxious.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 Beta

« on: September 22, 2023, 01:11:18 am »

Recent announcements that both GNOME and KDE Plasma may ship in Fedora 40 without an X11 session (so that way it doesn't need to be supported in the next RHEL).

It probably won't be a (big) problem for the Talos II, since I have a WX7100 GPU. It *may* be a problem for my Blackbird since I explicitly run that strictly on the BMC framebuffer as a low-end test.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 Beta

« on: September 20, 2023, 03:28:09 pm »

All the recent announcements about X11 make me more worried about Fedora 40.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: Safe operating temps of a 10 core power8 cpu?

« on: September 19, 2023, 04:52:57 pm »

If it's at all like the POWER9, and I can't imagine their thermal tolerances are substantially different, 60-70 C is absolutely fine. POWER9's thermal cutoff is north of 100 C. Even then it'll just downclock first.

Unfortunately the POWER8s were uniformly designed for data centres, and are not always nice to have in an office.

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

« on: September 11, 2023, 10:46:07 pm »

It's just a matter of sitting down and doing the work. I'm reassembling everything against the current ESR so I have a stable base again.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: August 25, 2023, 09:15:20 pm »

I'll have a look. I see you opened an issue. I've been happy with my old build for so long I've never really checked current ones.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Can box64 run x86_64 Linux and Windows games?

« on: August 24, 2023, 10:09:22 pm »

Yes, jart's JIT. https://github.com/jart/blink/issues/17

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Can box64 run x86_64 Linux and Windows games?

« on: August 23, 2023, 04:54:51 pm »

Semi-related, I did some basic work on a JIT for blink a couple months back, but there's a bug in it I was never able to figure out, and it doesn't have great debugging facilities for JIT-generated code.

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Mod Zone / Re: Custom cooler mount

« on: August 21, 2023, 12:57:03 pm »

Ugh!

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAME] Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete edition (VCMI client)

« on: August 17, 2023, 12:35:05 pm »

Excellent!

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Applications and Porting / Re: [Games] Quake 3 (ioquake3 port)

« on: August 16, 2023, 12:17:01 pm »

Does the VM work on LE?

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Mod Zone / Re: Custom cooler mount

« on: August 13, 2023, 03:12:27 pm »

Any added noise or fully silent?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] ET Legacy

« on: August 07, 2023, 07:41:41 pm »

Excellent!