Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: Your [AMD/ATI] Device 699f Radeon7 (Vega) needs to be using the amdgpu module. VMware above is incorrect. As root, # lspci -v | less 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 699f (rev c7) (prog-if 00 [VGA

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/9/19 9:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: > >> Your [AMD/ATI] Device 699f Radeon7 (Vega) needs to be using the amdgpu >> module. VMware above is incorrect. > >> As root, > >> # lspci -v | less > ... > > Says nothing. whoops. That means whatever GPU you

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: whoops. That means whatever GPU you are using isn't that AMD GPU. What does # lspci -vn |grep VGA give? It will list all VGA controllers the kernel finds. Ed, # lspci -vn | grep VGA 08:00.0 0300: 1002:699f (rev c7) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) #

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Gigabyte Radeon RX-550 video card. AMD's web site has drivers for the Radeon RX-550 for RHEL/CentOS, and Ubuntus but not one specifically for Slackware. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Backup software

2019-09-09 Thread Louis Kowolowski
If you’re running ZFS, it’d be pretty easy to setup something for zfs snapshots (if there isn’t something already packaged). Low overhead, and fast unless you’re making multi-gig changes every 30m or less. > On Sep 9, 2019, at 4:48 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > I think the last piece to be

Re: [PLUG] Backup software

2019-09-09 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
This maybe not useful to you - if you are not using Btrfs If you use btrfs - I found it great/fast to make and transfer (send/receive) btrfs snapshots. It is way more "incremental" and faster than rsync, can have a lot of snapshots without costing disk space/performance and the snapshots all just

[PLUG] Backup software

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
I think the last piece to be installed and running on my new desktop server/workstation is backup software. I've used dirvish for at least 9 years (the date on /usr/sbin/dirvish is Nov 9, 2010) and it's worked just fine while I've never needed a bare metal restoration. It runs every day at 00:30

Re: [PLUG] Backup software

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: This maybe not useful to you - if you are not using Btrfs Tomas, Nope, ext4. I didn't realize that I should have mentioned the filesystem type when I wrote. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: OK, you have a polaris 12 "Lexa" (GCN 4th gen) that uses the linux kernel amdgpu.ko and the X.org amdgpu_drv.so and radeonsi drivers and is relatively "new". Ed, If you say so. Is that a generic brand and model for the graphic card I have? lsmod has

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/9/19 1:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: > >> whoops. That means whatever GPU you are using isn't that AMD GPU. What >> does > >> # lspci -vn |grep VGA >> give?  It will list all VGA controllers the kernel finds. > > Ed, > > # lspci -vn | grep VGA >

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/9/19 1:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: > >> whoops. That means whatever GPU you are using isn't that AMD GPU. What >> does > >> # lspci -vn |grep VGA >> give?  It will list all VGA controllers the kernel finds. > > Ed, > > # lspci -vn | grep VGA >

Re: [PLUG] Backup software

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, David Bridges wrote: I use bacula on hundreds of linux systems and it works like a charm but it is more of a backup server solution instead of a single computer backup solution. It can be used for bare metal restores with some configuration. Normally bacula is ran on a