[GTALUG] Fedora 22 Live Workstation Install - no fglrx - no pdftk

[Russell Reiter]

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> existing solution.  (AMD CPUs came with a disk of stuff instead of
> paste and it is supposed to be single-use: detaching and re-attaching
> a heat sink is not intended to work.)

Could you describe this disk stuff in a little more detail? did you
get the package locally?

I think I am going to change the heat sinc on this unit. The one that
came with it has this copper pipe threaded through it, Makes it look
sort of like the headers on the 67 Mustang I once owned. UNlike those
headers these ones look like all show and no go.

Things got better after I flashed the bios. After I switched back to
GDM Plasma did stop hanging and I got to see that desktop for the
first time on this unit.

Bonus; finer grained display ie. rotation was enabled and I was able
to drop the resolution down to 800X600 to drive this old sansui tv I'm
using.

Stumbling blocks. I tried to underclock and crashed the bus. I haven's
found any sic sigma tables for system recommendations; that plus the
fact that overclocking is set by default to auto. Not even the decency
to highlight the active settings in the menu at runtime, made me think
where the heck is _that_  jumper0.

I did read that north bridge switching is not enabled in later
releases of this boards bios and I have since found there is an older
bios with this FSB feature available. Although I usually hesitate to
trim the north bridge clock. If you've got to trim a clock, trim the
big clock first and see what acts up first.

I wish I was better at math :-)

And not so lazy. I reset the cmos without jumpering it off. When I
reset it I could set the date but not the time.

My working theory is that the ready state of the cross fire video bus
consumes too many cycles. This board can drive four monitors. Since
it's only driving one monitor, my first thought on stabilising was to
knock the north bridge back a notch.

I use tesseract's hocr to make pdf's text searchable so I always us
video as an ad hoc performance monitoring thingy. By not over driving
the display and dropping the resolution I got an extra 100 fps on glx
gears. Vlc now plays dvd's without issue so it looks to me like
tesseract should crunch a few hundered pages ok.

There are Linux utilities from 2008 on the site; audio drivers and
stuff and there is a check script:
Detected configuration:
Architecture: x86_64 (64-bit)
which: no XFree86 in
(/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/home/russell/.local/bin:/home/russell/bin)
X Server: unable to detect

The question for me right now is, can I just add XFree86 libs to get
quick time? Oh yea and whether or not it's worth it to modify the CPU
heat-sinc.

I know I haven't unseated it yet. That does't mean it hasn't been
removed and reseated before this. I remember I use to be able to find
little tubes of acetone to clean parts. I guess a trip to Active
Surplus might find something similar, but I sure don't want to store
even a litre of acetone at my place, just to use a couple of
tablespoons of it now.

Thanks
Russell