Greetings everybody; But I am seeing no references to the microcode update being applied in the dmesg output.
The proper code snippet from the deb does seem to be installed in /lib/firmware/amd-ucode gene@GO704:/lib$ ls firmware/amd-ucode/ microcode_amd.bin microcode_amd_fam15h.bin This link explains how it is supposed to be prepended to the initrd image in cpio format. <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt> So this leads to 2 questions: 1. How can I test apply this to a running system to determine if it will then be applied at initial boot time if relevant? And which one is the correct one for this cpu. 2. How do I go about regenerating the initrd for that 3.4-9 kernel so that it is included for this early boot usage? 3rd question, and unrelated to the above, is how the heck do I do anything that needs root perms since x no longer accepts the attempts to open a display 10:0 here. Example: from a "sudo synaptic" while logged in as gene on this new to me machine: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (synaptic:8777): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 Seems to me we had that fixed 6 months back but its being a major pain in the ass again. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
