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
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next prev parent 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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