| onefang | Is there a list somewhere of what AMD GPUs are supported by Beowulf and Chimera? In particular my new super desktop has a Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT BE 6 GB PULSE which none of the Refracta ISOs seem to support. Maybe I need to try backports? | 21:09 |
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| onefang | At least I can finally boot the thing. lol | 21:09 |
| mason | onefang: A backported kernel would be good to try. | 21:15 |
| fsmithred | https://get.refracta.org/files/experimental/ There are a couple of isos with bpo kernels here. 5.4 and 5.6. I don't recall if firmware-amd-graphics is installed. The deb is probably on the iso. | 21:19 |
| fsmithred | onefang, 'apt show firmware-amd-graphics' gives a list, and your model isn't on it. I checked beowulf and ceres versions. They do list HD 5500/5600. | 21:23 |
| onefang | This'll make it awkward to put Beowulf on it like I planned. | 21:29 |
| fsmithred | there's a chimaera iso in same dir, but it doesn't have firmware installed. It's just a minimal X system. | 21:30 |
| onefang | I tried that to. | 21:33 |
| fsmithred | does it show up in lspci on any kernel? | 21:33 |
| onefang | Yep, just tried that on snapshot_chimaera_01-20200702_1212.iso which is what is running on it now. | 21:36 |
| fsmithred | how new is that model graphics card? | 21:37 |
| onefang | 5700 XT is the latest, I went back a generation to the 5600 XT, though mostly so I could avoid RGB bling. lol | 21:38 |
| onefang | January 21, 2020 | 21:40 |
| onefang | Latest Arch runs graphics on it fine, though I didn't do anymore than running a terminal. | 21:41 |
| onefang | Odd, Wikipedia says the later model is from July 7, 2019. lol | 21:41 |
| fsmithred | ubuntu forum says it was working with open source driver in April | 21:42 |
| onefang | https://youtu.be/37RP9I3_TBo is basically what I built. "Level1Techs | 21:44 |
| onefang | Building a Whisper-Quiet Threadripper PC For Greg Kroah-Hartman!" | 21:44 |
| onefang | I guess I could run something a bit more bleeding edge as the host and run Devuan in a VM. I was planning on running a bunch of VMs anyway, but would rather have Devuan as the host. | 21:45 |
| onefang | At least until Devuan catches up to this GPU. | 21:51 |
| fsmithred | figure out what's in ubuntu that makes it work and steal that item | 21:53 |
| onefang | Probably just a more up to date driver / firmware blob. | 22:01 |
| mason | onefang: Did you try a backport kernel? | 22:02 |
| mason | 5.7.10-1~bpo10+1 as of right now | 22:04 |
| onefang | Not yet. | 22:08 |
| mason | That'd probably be the easiest path forward. | 22:09 |
| onefang | I'll try the latest Ubuntu on it later. | 22:13 |
| onefang | I'm struggling with some RAM craziness at the moment. This new computer has fought me all the way. lol | 22:14 |
| mason | onefang: I found out the hard way when I bought my current desktop a few years ago that there was both buffered and unbuffered ECC RAM that would fit into the slots on my motherboard. | 22:35 |
| mason | Only the unbuffered ECC RAM worked. I'd of course bought buffered, because I had no clue such a thing as unbuffered ECC RAM even existed prior to that. | 22:36 |
| onefang | This is 8 sticks of matched unbuffered non ECC, coz I couldn't find any ECC. | 22:44 |
| * onefang downloads Ubuntu. Ewww. | 23:19 | |
| fsmithred | it's just for a test | 23:22 |
| fsmithred | it's ok. I do that sometimes, too. | 23:22 |
| fsmithred | and it's less bad than having to use Win | 23:23 |
| onefang | Well, that's why I have Magic Pixie Dust, 20+ distros on a micro SD card and a USB converter. Ubuntu isn't one of them. | 23:23 |
| onefang | The RAM problem is that the BIOS tells me I have 8 sticks of 32 GB, and a total of 64 GB. I've managed to get that up to 192 GB. The OSes believe what the BIOS tells them. | 23:27 |
| mason | Ubuntu is pleasant enough. | 23:43 |
| * golinux . . . seconds onefang . . . Ewww. | 23:48 | |
| onefang | Ubuntu 20.04 is driving the graphics card properly at least. | 23:56 |
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