[tech] New Machines - Chubsucker and Caan

[tpg at ucc.asn.au]

Hello All!

The new machines were built last Thursday, and had the Mint SOE 
installed on Friday.

"caan" has replaced everyone's favourite machine "cockgrunter", and 
seems to be going well.

The other new machine "chubsucker" is currently sitting next to caan. 
(And eventually will replace porcupine).


They're standard installs except for two points
1. The drivers for the nvidia 960 chipset are not in the Mint/Ubuntu 
official repositories, so a PPA has been used (ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa)
  - Both the new machines, and pinball (which has the same graphics 
chipset) have this PPA
2. The new machines are running a nightly version of the ALSA drivers 
(oem-audio-hda-daily-lts-vivid-dkms - 0.201605032232~ubuntu14.04.1) 
because the audio chipset is too new for the version packaged with 
Ubuntu 14.04, which is what Mint 17.3 is based on.

John Hodge [TPG]
UCC Wheel Member