Buy 4gb of ram (8gb is possible buy expensive). And a Xeon x5460. Also one
Nvidia Kepler will be fine, if you compile coreboot+seabios. Don't know if
nvidia will work with actual libreboot version.
Or if you know about soldering, but 8MiB SPIs chips, and solder those. Or/and
desolder main and backup chips, and solder/left only main SPI chip. Backup
chip make no sense.
thanks. i'll see what i can do about merging that in libreboot
Leah,
According to Zammit told me by email, that patch does not correct the
problem, but this one yes:
Https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/19595/
But it is under review he has told me.
can you integrate this patch in libreboot? i've added an issue about it on
the bug tracker
h please, explain about issue video output in D510MO please, im
interested.
https://minifree.org/product/docking-station-for-libreboot-x200/ ? (slower
than a desktop, though, I guess)
Going one generation earlier (which I guess does ssacrifice the GPU, but oh
well) nets https://www.coreboot.org/Board:gigabyte/ga-b75m-d3h
I'm not sure it matters. As far as I know, all board revisions should work.
Exist various versions of this motherboard... Rev 1.0, Rev 1.1 Rev 1.3 and
1.4 I think. This is important?
gnulux, i can definitely vouch for G41M libreboot if you want a cheap libre
desktop with trisquel. i use one myself, for testing and it works very well
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/ga-g41m-es2l.html
This board works with internal intel's 4500mhd GPU, but you run games on your
PCI card. I could play Warsow flawlessly with Nvidia gt730.
As far as I can see GA-G41M-ES2L has a bug according to libreboot webpage:
"NOTE: due to a bug in the hardware, the MAC address is hardcoded in
coreboot-libre. Therefore, you must set your own MAC address in your
operating system."
Have the rest of libreboots got this hardware-fingerprint
This is my Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
It does work but I think if I installed Realtek nonfree firmware, I would
nolonger get warning that "firmware is possibly missing".
As for Intel-Xeon, I would probably need
GMA4500mhd it is very stable, but do not expect nice 3d performance.
Realtek PCI card? what card? LAN CPI card? Wifi PCI card? Already classic
integrated Ethernet card problems are fixed.
x5460 is better, or much better:
About the Gigabyte G41M-ES2L mobo, I like the fact it’s an onboard intel
GPU. I see that Nvidia cards becomes legacy quite fast, and finally even
nouveau will soon stop supporting them. Maybe I’m a bit pessimistic but as
I have a good socket 775 mobo without an onboard GPU, I’m dependent on
The northbridge is very very hot, bit I still had no problems. Be sure to
clean NB and put quality thermal paste on the chip. Yes, this board is about
30-50€ used. Don't forget to purchase Xeon x5460, the best CPU for that
board you can buy.
The PCIe GPU works fine as OpenGL render with DRI3, but it doesn't work as
primary GPU.
This gigabyte board runs much better with Xeon x5460, but needs a minimun
quality cooler. And x5460 costs about 20€. Be careful if you want to flash
that board by hardware. Also this board works fine with only one main spi
chip (without backup one).
The problem of A20 computer card is GPU, other things are seems to be
perfect.
I too have not run into any Dell laptops yet that don't allow you to change
the wifi adapter. I have in fact run in to a few Hewlett-Packard laptops
that have a restriction.
Like many mobos, the G41M-ES2L has Realtek RTL8111, RTL8111C, to be precise.
Some people complain about the chipset, have you experienced any problems?
Socket 775 motherboards aren’t dirt cheap on Ebay, they often are as
expensive as some new 1150 socket mobos, but I rather like them, and
Is the G41M-ES2L the only option to get a libre software desktop? And
libreboot has not supported all the mainboard's functions until recently or
still does not? What about all the other atx mainboards that libreboot's
website lists? Installing libreboot on them does not provide a libre
Yes, uboot, I’ve realized your G41M-ES2L motherboard is one in a million
:-) Many thanks for the flashrom info :-)
I read the LibreBoot website pages. Very sad info about some FSF members :-(
uboot: they have a P4 socket 478, nothing like a P4 socket 775 which you
mention. If they had P4 socket 775, I would add some Ram, and they would be
good to go.
They don’t want a notebook, although of course they could attach their
19"screen to the notebook.
I’ve heard of flashrom but
Many thanks for all this information, onpon4.
I thought there was still some problem with the Allwinner A20 but that
rhombus-tech had solved it on their own board (the people behind
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop.
>the Allwinner A20 is one of the best SoCs for libre
> Reading that page and the rhombus-tech pages, I was under the impression,
this board was made up of smaller modules you could simply unswitch. I was
wrong, then.
It's inaccurate to think of a computer card as a "board". It's more like a
cartridge. In fact, it's very similar to a PCMCIA
What you want to check is the GPU. Make it an Intel GPU but not the skylake.
There is I would say 95% of chance the wifi adapter/bluetooth won't work
without proprietary firmware but external or internal ones are very cheap.
You buy one, you plug it in and it works. Look at thinkpenguin below
Hello Trisquel happy users,
I’m looking for a new desktop computer for a couple of friends who don’t
need much. They were happy with their old Pentium 4 but it’s time for a
change.
They’re need to be able to view their pictures (new camera, so very heavy
pictures) comfortably, and perhaps
If it has to be x86, I'd suggest finding something used on ebay or something.
If not, and their needs are low as you say, why not an EOMA68 computer card +
micro-desktop? :) It only adds up to a total of $120, and it's upgradeable.
It even consumes a whole lot less power, so they'll save
Many thanks for your explanations, onpon4. I’m beginning to see the light
;-) The Rombus-tech website isn’t very clear. First, I thought there were
different mini-cards you could assemble on to the main card, then I thought
"housing" was like a case, or a box, like they sell for the
> The Rombus-tech website isn’t very clear.
Yeah, that's not really the best place to read about it. Better are the Crowd
Supply page, and the specification, which is written here:
http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA68
> On the contrary, if Rombus tech or someone else
> I’d miss a real ethernet port.
Think Penguin sells a USB adapter for that:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-20-hi-speed-10100-fast-ethernet-network-adapter
> Allwinner not being totally free (guilty of some violation of the GPL)
The GPL violations related to the A20 were
Many thanks for your answers.
* I forgot to say, they don’t want a notebook, they have a 19" screen (VGA
port only) which is okay for viewing their pictures. So they want a desktop
computer.
* I’m well aware that Wifi is nearly always full of nonfree blob but this
isn’t a problem because
or https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707 It's very cheap .
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