[tech] Linux SOE on Pinball & New Graphics Card Needed

[Andrew Adamson]

Hi All,

I spent some time on Oday installing the mint SOE on pinball (the machine 
closest to the whiteboard). In a bizarre coincidence, the graphics card in 
it decided to kick the bucket as I rebooted after the install. This led to 
several hours of debugging by tpg and myself, and I subsequently 
discovered that, of the four spare graphics cards we have in the machine 
room, all four are broken. So pinball is currently running with the 
graphics card out of the projects bench machine. I backed up and restored 
the host keys to the new install, so those are the same (yay!).

Committee: can we please get a new graphics card for pinball? I was 
thinking of something like the Asus 2G GTX 950 from msy for $237+postage. 
Link: 
http://www.msy.com.au/waonline/pc-components/16408-asus-gtx950-oc-2gd5-2g-gtx-950-oc-pci-e-vga-card.html

I'm not really keen on a gigabyte alternative either - of the Gigabyte 
graphics cards the club has purchased since 2010, every single one of them 
has failed.


Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

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