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💓 EV∆ ∆ΠΠ∆ 💓💻 Hello Old Friend, Talos II 💻This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).- [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering</a> - [2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM</a><a href="https://bsd.network/@dexter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dexter</a> electricity comes next 🧠 <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POWER9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POWER9</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/PPC64le" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PPC64le</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RaptorTalos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaptorTalos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FMT2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FMT2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/colo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/datacenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#datacenter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/onprem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onprem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/goodtimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goodtimes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meditation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WomenInTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a>

Mike CardenInnocent old me. It’s been years since I have even thought about /etc/X11/xorg.conf and I thought I never would have to again. Wrong. Today I updated Fedora Linux on my PPC workstation and on reboot, I had lost my GUI login. That turned out to be because the systemd gdm.service had failed, because the X server had failed, because… well, because it had no conf file. These days you’re not supposed to need one (it’s meant to auto-detect stuff during boot) but after the updates, this install needed one. I generated one with the Xorg command, and while that command errored out, it seemed to generate a complete-looking config file. With fingers crossed I dropped it into place and rebooted and it Just Worked[tm]. Not a fun thing to debug, but I am glad to have solved it. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fedora38" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fedora38</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/power9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power9</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xorg</a>

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