I have an interesting idea for a bifurcation riser: something to allow putting an Optane H10 SSD in a standard machine. That drive is an M.2 device where the x4 slot is bifurcated into two x2 slots. Most mainboards don't support bifurcation to x2, so this riser would have to take an x8 slot...
"This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes." It may be recorded... okay, then I'll do just that. Did you mean to say it might be recorded?
Does anyone else have this board?
I've switched to using Windows as the host, at least until the PCIe bus reset in KVM/VFIO is fixed.
Now, almost every time I hotplug a DisplayPort display (as happens when a DisplayPort KVM switch switches away), Windows crashes, either with...
I don't know about ESXi, but for KVM, those three slots are tied together. It's easy enough to override that with a kernel patch, but that kernel patch will likely never be rolled into mainline Linux. Also, perhaps the CPU ports have an isolation feature we don't know about.
Regarding HDMI...
Hmm, 2 gaming VMs?
Anyway, here are the IOMMU groups with the latest Intel Root Port patches ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/20/453 ):
### Group 0 ###
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3 Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0c08] (rev 06)
### Group 1 ###...
Hmm, I just checked the Intel DisplayPort with my BenQ XL2420TE, and I get no audio no matter what I do in Linux, even without intel_iommu=on. I don't have any HDMI cables to check HDMI.
It seems like Super Doctor III merely sets at run-time some parameters that can also be set under Linux via via lm-sensors.
I installed lm-sensors, then ran sensors-detect, which picked up the w83627ehf module.
Once I loaded the module, I was able to chdir to...
I bought myself an X10SAT, but now I realize that the PCIe lane allocation on the X10SAE is actually better, since I don't need Thunderbolt.
I'd like to change to an X10SAE instead -- but only so long as my 510RPM (at idle) CPU cooler doesn't trigger that crazy fan cycling.
Do any of you own...
Speaking of wake on schedule, I seem to recall seeing such an option via vPro.
I use vPro for the Serial-over-LAN and hardware VNC server features. (Oh, and it does do power controls, too.)
For me, I absolutely wanted all three of VT-d, ECC memory, and vPro.
Of the Haswell boards I could...
Hmm, now that you point it out, I do see that. No matter where my head is (vertically) relative to the display, I can drag a window up and down, and the window border gets brighter and darker. I have mine at 0% brightness.
I bought myself the XL2420TE, and it's pretty nice -- but now I'm wondering if I should've tried the TX first.
I kind of want to try the stereoscopic 3D, but I have some brand preference towards AMD video.
In the 'TX' model, does the emitter appear on the USB bus, or is it via DVI / DisplayPort...
I found a few more disadvantages of Intel vPro: No NMI switch function, and no way to send "break" (for Magic SysRq) over the Serial-over-LAN interface.
The description page for the X10SAT actually specifies that it has a Thunderbolt port, interestingly enough.
In terms of remote access, the X10SAT claims to have Intel AMT/vPro. Assuming Supermicro hasn't done anything stupid, this means it has built-in Serial-over-LAN and KVM. You can even...
Hmm, if it's Evergreen, can it do Eyefinity? Having 3 displays would be awesome -- one internal, and two external. Even the low-end discrete HD5450 can do that.
Another example of what UEFI lets you do: preboot authentication via fingerprint or smart-card -- with multiple users for the same machine. You can then set the system to automatically lock and unlock (with ATA security) the hard drive, so only the BIOS administrator has access to the real ATA...
Many (if not all?) of HP's modern laptops -- or at least the business ones -- have UEFI firmware. Unfortunately, on my laptop (EliteBook 8530w), using UEFI boot mode results in many things being broken, both in Windows* and Linux**. I've heard that the new ones are better.
UEFI can be fun...
Actually, if our displays were 200DPI (or rather, 192DPI), we wouldn't get blurry scaling -- each 1 pixel in the app would be 2 pixels on screen, instead of 1.5.
Umm, try blaming Opera when Opera doesn't scale properly. Microsoft aren't the ones who coded it! Anyway, if you want to see what Opera does when the OS doesn't virtualize it, enable "XP-Style DPI Scaling".
Yeah, Firefox 3.x does fail at DPI scaling -- but it's not Firefox's fault.
With CSS, the unit of 'em' is relative to the default font size of the parent, whereas pixels (px) are an absolute measurement that most people assume is 1/96 inch. If you design a site with em in some places and px...
http://10rem.net/blog/2010/04/22/rant-hdtv-has-ruined-the-lcd-display-market-or-i-want-my-pixels-and-dpi-now
This here is why I can't use any desktop LCDs -- they all have crap PPI.
See my comment at the bottom.
Try setting your desktop to "150%", and then look at it from a bit further away...
http://10rem.net/blog/2010/04/22/rant-hdtv-has-ruined-the-lcd-display-market-or-i-want-my-pixels-and-dpi-now
This here is why I can't use any desktop LCDs -- they all have crap PPI.
See my comment at the bottom.
Try setting your desktop to "150%", and then look at it from a bit further away...
Say, I'm trying to drive a similar display ("S2209W") via HDMI-to-DVI at 1080p30, but the display totally screws things up -- it overscans significantly, and looks horribly blurry. In fact, it looks better at 1280x720 input than it does at 1920x1080!
If I give a 1920x1080 screen a 1920x1080...
Hmm, about the idea of powering down a discrete GPU when not using the horsepower: where do you connect the monitors? I'd think the best idea would be to connect to the onboard GPU, and then use this Hybrid Crossfire to make that be the one that performs output.
In fact, depending on the...
I have the 1440x900 non-glossy display on my Gateway M685, and I can't stand it. It's so dim, even compared to cheap desktop LCDs. I wish there were some way to upgrade it... every site I see that sells the better panel has it for at least $250. What's the point of a large LCD if it's so dim...
NOTE: There is now (as of this week, I think) a new BIOS update on Gateway's support site.
The readme describes only "Fixes for video issues in Vista" -- not specific. It does add options for "enable wireless" -- disabled, enabled, or "restore" (same as at shutdown).
Unfortunately, I still...
Hey, I'm glad to finally see a review of the system.
Do you still have the system? I have an M685 (the non-consumer version of the same system), and I'd like to see if the NX860X bios would work better. Could you make a BIOS dump of the system? (instructions...