As my last post conveyed, I had gotten the pesky Ryzen APU to boot and work with Ubuntu 20.04. Everything seemed to work fine. The peppiness of the CPU was loads faster than the A10-9700 APU it replaced. So I thought all was well. ……Not so much! By using ‘ACPI=off‘ in the kernel arguments, I …
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Ubuntu-Ryzen-UEFI Madness (Solved!)
I have probably installed some variant of Linux at least 70 times in my lifetime – probably much more. I had just purchased two sets of components for my home-made Render Server Farm. The motherboards were Biostar and the CPUs were A10-9700G AM4 by AMD. The initial installs went without a hitch using Ubuntu Server …
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Windows 7 Plunge
Plan of Attack After my RAID/hard drive debacle, I figured it was time to start with a clean slate. Usually with my Windows boxes over the years, I would start with a clean drive and reinstall/upgrade OS to clear out the bloat. I would accumulate all kinds of apps and drivers that just cluttered up …
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Ubuntu 11 (Natty) on Beagleboard
I have no idea what messed up the microSD that had Ubuntu 10.10. I loaded up a new SD with the latest 11.04 image (zcat and dd) and that went pretty smoothly. Meanwhile, I decided to put Angstrom back on that corrupted DS card (worse case it wouldn’t work) withmy development PC (used Linux Mint presently). …
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Beagleboard + Ubuntu 10.10…Sweet!
Things are just falling into place with this Beagleboard. The Ubuntu distro, although slow on installing packages is pretty damn robust. I have installed a bunch of packages without a hiccup. X11VNC works without any issues, and can access with ultraVNC without much screen lag. My UVC webcam (which can be seen in motion in …
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New Tangent – Vortex86SX is History!
OK. Why spend so much time on a frankly, underpowered system board. Chalk it up to learning experience I guess. That Vortex86 may have been the cat’s pajamas (pulled that from nowhere) about 5-10 years ago with 300Mhz, but the lack of FPU or math coprocessor cripples it nowadays. Less operating systems will use it, …
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