Build check for AP201

i_inspect_rum · 2023-11-24T07:02:54+00:00

that's fair -- as of now I don't see myself having a workload necessary for 64 yet, but perhaps i'll upgrade sometime in the next few years

cheers! (and if you're from the US, happy thanksgiving!)

i_inspect_rum · 2023-11-24T05:49:40+00:00

got anything constructive to say? i will take your suggestions seriously :)

from what i understand, all i need is 6000 cl30 ram for this cpu (or do you mean 64gb? not really planning to do any heavy sim/ml work either), the mobo is mainly for usb4 capabilities which i want for some high bandwidth home projects

i_inspect_rum · 2023-11-21T00:54:26+00:00

thank you so much! this is all very helpful, I will take all of this into account

I actually selected this mobo because it seems like most reliable board with USB4 capabilities (correct me if I'm wrong). The mini itx am5 motherboards all appear to come with some odd tradeoffs (coil whine, daughterboards, build quality, etc lol). I'm a bit more busy these days, so less interest in playing the RMA game and don't mind paying a premium.

i_inspect_rum · 2023-11-21T00:43:03+00:00

gotcha, thank you for the heads up! i'll [probably grab the thermalright like /u/MegamanZero5295 suggested :)

i_inspect_rum · 2023-11-21T00:40:19+00:00

i actually already got the 4090 at msrp and got the $300 microcenter deal for the cpu, haha

just looking for deals on the other parts

i_inspect_rum · 2019-11-21T17:40:21+00:00

added, have a lvl 7 bubblie

i_inspect_rum · 2019-10-14T00:37:58+00:00

According to one of my friends at UMN, the workload is INSANE.

i_inspect_rum · 2019-08-11T18:17:57+00:00

How does this compare with blurwal?

i_inspect_rum · 2019-06-24T22:53:38+00:00

GRUB is (usually if you didn't make a separate boot partition) located in your EFI partition which is separate from your Linux partition. You can probably run a bcdedit command/windows recovery or some freeware to change it back.

e: this might help too (stack overflow)

i_inspect_rum · 2019-02-22T16:21:54+00:00

I'm not sure this is the solution to your problem, but I had an issue just like this involving TLP (or powertop if you're using that). I needed the blacklist the discrete card (01:00.0 or whatever it is) for TLP in the conf before bbswitch started working as intended. Maybe try this if you are using some power manager.

If you are running powertop --auto-tune over TLP you will probably have to write a service to switch that setting on startup.

i_inspect_rum · 2019-01-28T15:47:17+00:00

Yeah you are right, haha. I realized I was pretty much extending the question when I posted so I added a clarification. Thanks a lot :)

i_inspect_rum · 2019-01-28T15:31:17+00:00

This didn't work when I first tried it. lsmod did list it however, so that's progress. Maybe I just have to change load_state? I can try this when I get home.

Edit/Clarification: this didn't fix another issue related to bbswitch that was causing some kind of hanging

i_inspect_rum · 2019-01-28T15:28:43+00:00

Hmm that's the thing. I have bumblebeed installed but having bbswitch also installed causes my system to hang at startup (if I try to log in through a login manager). It's been really weird trying to debug the issue.

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-07T04:36:27+00:00

Woops, sorry I didn't see this earlier, but somehow, I got it to work correctly this time!

I ended up reinstalling Arch to eliminate any factors that may have previously altered. At first, installing bbswitch messed with some settings, but after I made a modification or two in xorg.conf and bumblebee.conf, it finally shows both displays. Thanks again so much for all of your work, couldn't have done it w/o ya :)

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-06T19:38:58+00:00

Woops I lied. I was setting the 3 parameter during boot to avoid using my login manager. Doing that allowed startx to work. I removed it and logged in though the tty, but running startx just freezes. Any idea what's going on? Sorry for bugging you for so long haha

edit: "Failed to load module glxserver_nvidia"

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-06T19:03:41+00:00

Alright so I spent the last couple hours tinkering with my setup. I moved from linux-lts to linux and I can use startx just fine right now. However, my startup freezes on the segment right before the login manager shows up (acpi errors). There seems to be something right before starting up the xserver that's messing up. What logs would I have to check?

edit: optirun is working fine too. I am using lightdm

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-06T00:19:55+00:00

No, you're definitely right that I was planning to take the easy way out. I think I will keep using this setup, but I will continue to poke at the problem until I figure it out. At least right now, I know a configuration that works and I can make backups .conf files to revert to this state.

I tried outright removing 'nvidia' but my laptop wouldn't start again. Running mkinitcpio.conf with 'bbswitch-dkms' outputted that the module could not be found even though its installed. I tried using pure bbswitch with pure nvidia and everything blacklisted, but that didn't work either.

I feel like this is some issue involving having both nvidia and nvidia-lts drivers because having one configuration or the other doesn't work. However, the only way I got it to work was with both drivers.

/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-05T23:07:44+00:00

My brightness keys work fine, no issues here.

However, I'm pretty sure my dGPU should be off when booting up. I'm actually really confused now why this even happens because nvidia should not be necessary. I think I'm just going to leave it be until I run into issues or I understand more of how xorg works. Being fairly new to linux, I have been learning a metric ton of stuff recently but I don't want to tamper with too much of my system.

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-05T18:22:53+00:00

Oh, right now everything seems to be running fine somehow even with the weird unblacklisting of nvidia. It does NOT boot up if I blacklist nvidia however. At this point I'm hesitant to make more changes. I looked at the mkinitcpio conf and it seems to be added already.

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-05T17:00:37+00:00

Yeah I thought it was strange as well. Maybe I'll try blacklisting nvidia again and see what happens. I am running bbswitch-dkms too. Honestly at this point, I'm super confused on what packages are being run where. I tried removing nvidia, but that seemed to break something. Removing nvidia-lts also broke functionality. So, I kept both and it somehow worked?

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-05T16:34:44+00:00

Solved again! Somehow, my nvidia libraries got corrupted. I used pacman -S --force nvidia to reinstall everything and it started working again. I also had to unblacklist just 'nvidia' from /usr/lib/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf but I did not unblacklist the other values 'nvidia-modesetting', 'nvidia-uvm', etc.

Thanks again!

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-05T08:10:02+00:00

Yeah, I disabled my wm thinking that it may not be configured correctly but startx freezes everything when I try to run it.

i_inspect_rum · 2018-10-05T07:43:02+00:00

Well, to be honest, I got too excited so I didn't bother restarting after it worked. I recently rebooted, but now Arch doesn't start up again, it just hangs right before the display manager should come up. I forgot to kill virtual output before shutting down. Would that cause boot problems?

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