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From: yasu@yasuaki.com
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please recommend zero-hassle video card for GUIX
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:34:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3776c2ee5e2994a82ff86f6db7bed0e4@yasuaki.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C8049144-A18F-43BB-9599-AB5F88645D8A@flashner.co.il>

Just to follow up, here's what I did:

  - Removed my original NVidia GTX 750 video card
  - Installed the new AMD RX580 video card
  - Added an unofficial Guix channel to use the "regular"
      Linux Kernel (instead of Linux-Libre)

My new Guix experience is now a world apart from the old!
  - It does't freeze like every 30 minutes anymore...
  - It works like any other normal computer! (Great 2D/3D/video 
performance!)

Cheers,
Yasu


yasu@guix ~$ guix system describe
Generation 16	Sep 24 2020 20:27:04	(current)
   file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-16-link
   canonical file name: 
/gnu/store/9crwhnhyc6nwspd9j4m09sk1bb6r93j3-system
   label: GNU with Linux 5.8.10
   bootloader: grub-efi
   root device: label: "my-root"
   kernel: 
/gnu/store/2z8smc1cn921gxqhb7m11byk6h3asf1k-linux-5.8.10/bzImage
   channels:
     guix:
       repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
       branch: master
       commit: ff128dc6332fddfc65658a8462796fc7ecd1bdd2
     nonguix:
       repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
       branch: master
       commit: fc683132b1838cfdbe968b49e459dc12f4f41ef8
   configuration file: 
/gnu/store/9f1vi852r032wd38hchm5g2sywxzfkj1-configuration.scm

yasu@guix ~$ cat 
/gnu/store/9f1vi852r032wd38hchm5g2sywxzfkj1-configuration.scm
;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "desktop" setup with GNOME and Xfce where the
;; root partition is encrypted with LUKS.

(use-modules
   (gnu)
   (gnu system nss)
   (nongnu packages linux) ;; engine power
   (nongnu system linux-initrd)) ;; engine power

(use-service-modules desktop xorg)
(use-package-modules certs gnome)

(operating-system
     (kernel linux) ;; engine power
     (initrd microcode-initrd) ;; engine power
     (firmware (list linux-firmware)) ;; engine power
   (host-name "guix")
   (timezone "Asia/Tokyo")
   (locale "en_US.utf8")

   ;; Choose US English keyboard layout.  The "altgr-intl"
   ;; variant provides dead keys for accented characters.
   (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us"))

   ;; Use the UEFI variant of GRUB with the EFI System
   ;; Partition mounted on /boot/efi.
   (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                 (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
                 (target "/boot/efi")
                 (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))

   ;; Specify a mapped device for the encrypted root partition.
   ;; The UUID is that returned by 'cryptsetup luksUUID'.
   ;; (mapped-devices
   ;; (list (mapped-device
   ;;        (source (uuid "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"))
   ;;        (target "my-root")
   ;;        (type luks-device-mapping))))

   (file-systems (append
                  (list (file-system
                          (device (file-system-label "my-root"))
                          (mount-point "/")
                          (type "ext4")
                          ;; (dependencies mapped-devices)
                         )
                        (file-system
                          (device (uuid "C2D0-0B91" 'fat))
                          (mount-point "/boot/efi")
                          (type "vfat")))
                  %base-file-systems))

   (users (cons (user-account
                 (name "yasu")
                 (comment "yasu")
                 (group "users")
                 (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
                                         "audio" "video")))
                %base-user-accounts))

   ;; This is where we specify system-wide packages.
   (packages (append (list
                      ;; for HTTPS access
                      nss-certs
                      ;; for user mounts
                      gvfs)
                     %base-packages))

   ;; Add GNOME and Xfce---we can choose at the log-in screen
   ;; by clicking the gear.  Use the "desktop" services, which
   ;; include the X11 log-in service, networking with
   ;; NetworkManager, and more.
   (services (append (list ;; (service gnome-desktop-service-type)
                           (service gnome-desktop-service-type)
                           ;; (bluetooth-service)
                           (set-xorg-configuration
                            (xorg-configuration
                             (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))
                     %desktop-services))

   ;; Allow resolution of '.local' host names with mDNS.
   (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))


root@guix ~# glxinfo | egrep -i 'device|memory'
      Device: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.38.0, 5.8.10, LLVM 
10.0.0) (0x67df)
     Video memory: 8192MB

https://www.amazon.co.jp/SAPPHIRE-RADEON-%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89-VD6907-SA-RX580-8GD5PL002/dp/B07PCCS63W/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&dchild=1&keywords=amd+580&qid=1600948539&sr=8-3


On 18.09.2020 10:27, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On September 17, 2020 9:00:54 PM UTC, Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> 
> wrote:
>> Thank you Efraim and Raghav but I forgot to mention that I need decent 
>> web browser experience of dual 60hz 4K  (HDMI).
>> 
>> While the reviews on amazon.jp do confirm Linux friendliness but they 
>> say it is way too slow for that, even with hardware acceleration 
>> enabled...  😅
>> 
> 
> Yeah, that does sound unfortunate. I would assume that another GPU
> from that generation (something208) should work also but unfortunately
> I don't have any experience with that.
> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 18, 2020, at 04:54, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:53:50PM +0000, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
>>>> Hello Yasuaki Kudo!
>>>> 
>>>> AFAIK, there is only one that is both free-software and AMD chip-set 
>>>> compatible. It's GeForce GT 710.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> RG.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I can confirm the GeForce GT 710 works. I picked one up after I broke
>>> the VGA port on my motherboard.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Efraim Flashner   <efraim@flashner.co.il>   אפרים פלשנר
>>> GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D  14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351
>>> Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received 
>>> unencrypted


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-24 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-17 12:53 Please recommend zero-hassle video card for GUIX Raghav Gururajan
2020-09-17 19:53 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-09-17 21:00   ` Yasuaki Kudo
2020-09-18 10:27     ` Efraim Flashner
2020-09-24 12:34       ` yasu [this message]
2020-09-25  5:50         ` yasu
2020-09-17 21:26   ` Raghav Gururajan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-17  2:05 Yasuaki Kudo
2020-09-18  2:07 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-18  5:15   ` Yasuaki Kudo

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