Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online

On 22 Jan 2025 19:18:15 GMT, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote in
<lvcujnFed7nU2@mid.individual.net>:

Set up the Mrs.' workstation yesterday.  We have both machines (Mac
Studio, and this one) set up on her desk in her office.
Installed Mint 22.1 and gave her cairo-dock with the "3d"
effect so she wouldn't feel out-of-place.  HOTAS supported without
incident.
 
14 cores w/ht for 28 threads, 32G of RAM.

Actually, it has 20 cores -- 8 "performance" and 12 "efficiency",
as below.

 
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700F
 
Been reading about this processor.  It has 8 "performance"
cores and 12 "efficiency" cores.  Interesting.
 
The GPU reports it is a:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER (AD104-A)
 
Form factor: ITX.
 
It was making a buzzing sound while running, so I opened the case -- and
found it full of styrofoam packing materials,
mostly to hold the GPU steady while shipping.  So once that was removed,
it is silent.  Surprised it ran at all with all the airflow blocked.
🤷‍♂️️
 
Note that the wifi drivers did _not_ work with stock Mint 21.3, you have
to use 22.1 to get the newer kernel that supports the chip.
 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D2M48B5Q
 
# uname -a Linux buzz 6.8.0-51-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
Thu Dec  5 13:09:44 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
I have yet to build Linux on it yet, was going to try to keep it close
to "stock" ... but the 6.13 kernel has improvements to the wifi drivers,
so I'll have to think about that.
 
NVIDIA driver version 550.142.

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