Jimmy Falcon's questions

Somehow I got stuck with an installation where ALX networking driver module is disabled, so I don't have internet access on the box. If I try to launch a new installation, immediately network adapter is recognized and kernel module listed for this adapter is ALX.

I have kernel 4.4.0.146-generic installed. How can I activate the ALX network adapter module within it? PCI Id of networking card is 1969:e091, it's Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit ethernet adapter.

I cannot use apt on the box obviously, since there is no connectivity. I can download and install .deb packages via a flash drive using another machine though.

thanks.

I can run 6+ GPUs mining rigs successfully on any Intel motherboard under Ubuntu 16.04, however with AMD 970 motherboards, only 5 GPUs work. If I install the 6th GPU, the system boots, then I can see the GRUB menu, but very shortly after that I end up with a blinking cursor. Obviously, I am not even getting to booting the kernel.

How can I troubleshoot this, at least to find out the cause?

thank you.

This is 4x RX580 GPU system, AMD 970 motherboard, booting from USB flash.

On a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I am trying to install ROCM per this manual:

https://rocm.github.io/ROCmInstall.html

Since it suggests installing kernel 4.13, I decided to do so. After kernel installs and I reboot, I am getting lots of amd-vi completion-wait loop timed out messages. The system boots, however I cannot ssh to it (connection refused), I cannot login locally either: after I type in my username, I get the Login: prompt again w/o asking for password. So, I cannot reboot and I force power off. After that I cannot boot at all, I get the grub error "unknown file system" (not even getting to grub boot menu).

I did it 3 times, and it's always the same. With 4.4.0-116 I can boot normally. This setup also runs with amdgpu-pro w/o any problems under 4.4.0-116. Any ideas, please?

I'm up to setting up some mining rigs running Ubuntu. I use Nvidia GTX 970 and GTX 780 GPUs. I installed the 16.04 LTS server distro and it's working fine. I can tweak some GPU params using nvidia-smi. However, over- and underclocking can only be done with nvidia-settings utility which I have trouble running. The error msg is this:

Failed to connect to Mir: Failed to connect to server socket: No such file or directory. Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused.

ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run nvidia-settings --help for usage information.

I looked thru internet a lot. Nvidia-settings needs graphic interface, so I installed Xorg, Ubuntu Desktop and everything I could find on the subject. The computer boots into graphic desktop now, however, nothing really happens after a login, the screen is pretty empty, no icon or anything. Nvidia-settings still not working.

I am accessing the computer via SSH, I created the xorg.conf file, I am using custom edid files to emulate monitors. I've also set coolbits to 31.

Maybe I should just install the full graphic version now, I am sort of clueless what to do next.