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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on March 19, 2025, 09:08:19 pm »

Wayland is fine if you have a GPU. If you don't, it runs everything through llvmpipe. On my 4-core Blackbird with AST graphics it worked fine but the fans never quit running (but when I switched to X11 they throttled back down again).

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General Discussion / Re: Samsung PRO 980 1TB NVMe is working flawlessly

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on March 19, 2025, 09:07:07 pm »

Ugh. That's not encouraging.

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General Discussion / Re: Samsung PRO 980 1TB NVMe is working flawlessly

« Last post by tle on March 19, 2025, 06:53:47 pm »

Code: [Select]

shrimp-paste [tle]$ uname -ar
Linux shrimp-paste 6.14.0-0.rc6.49.fc42.ppc64le #1 SMP Mon Mar 10 23:19:40 UTC 2025 ppc64le GNU/Linux

/dev/nvme0n1:
 Timing buffered disk reads: 4972 MB in  3.01 seconds = 1650.85 MB/sec
shrimp-paste [tle]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/nvme0n1
and it's getting worse in Fedora 42

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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?

« Last post by atomicdog on March 19, 2025, 12:20:03 pm »

Yes, you should be able to flash the PNOR chip (I've never tried it though).
It's the BMC chip that needs to be flashed prior if it's blank/corrupted.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD OpenCL / ROCm

« Last post by lepidotos on March 19, 2025, 11:36:29 am »

My takeaway is that if you want to do reasonably portable GPGPU stuff learn WebGPU/Vulkan compute shaders. You can do also GPGPU stuff with opengles/webgl with "transform feedbacks" but its extremely limited and a total nightmare, speaking from experience.

Now if only the Blender team would do that. I do hear they are for viewport and Eevee, but Cycles depends on HIP if you're not using CUDA or CPU. Though I suppose render times shouldn't be too bad on the CPU in this case...

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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?

« Last post by markr87 on March 19, 2025, 10:04:58 am »

@atomicdog, Can you flash a blank chip in the socket on the MB or will it need to be flashed prior?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc A770 - failed experiment

« Last post by lepidotos on March 19, 2025, 09:45:05 am »

From what I remember, Intel was pretty touchy at best about non-x86 architectures in general not too long ago, so I never really expected it to work. The fact there's any sort of hope for it is a nice bonus, though.

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

« Last post by lepidotos on March 19, 2025, 09:35:05 am »

Yeah, that's the one I would be looking at because it lets me use the x8 slot for an NVMe card. I was wondering if it might have some issues with the lower fan header, I guess let us know if you do get it, but it seems like if the RX 6800 fits (I remember you saying you tried it) it shouldn't be too much of an issue since either one is longer than that header.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by tle on March 19, 2025, 08:27:23 am »

I, unfortunately, said goodbye to the Fedora distribution... I still need X11 and that will not change for a long time. Gnome is getting more and more frustrating from version to version. I went back to simplicity, FreeBSD 14.2 + X11 + Enlightenment 0.27 ;-)

Your choice is solid and will last for years. Having said that it's seems to me Wayland will be slowly dethroning X11 whether we like it or not.

I personally have no issue with Wayland because most apps I am using are performing correctly with native Wayland or via XWayland. Simply put I am getting boring as I am getting older. Now all I want is a conventional, productive and boring UX like that of GNOME or KDE.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by DKnoto on March 19, 2025, 06:24:43 am »

I, unfortunately, said goodbye to the Fedora distribution... I still need X11 and that will not change for a long time. Gnome is getting more and more frustrating from version to version. I went back to simplicity, FreeBSD 14.2 + X11 + Enlightenment 0.27 ;-)