pci-e passthrough help

[Ashleyyyy]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

make a file in /etc/modprobe.d

 

call it like vfio.conf

 

 

Since you haven't gotten passthrough working, and I don't see any other reports of it, there is a chance this board just won't do it, but there are a few more tweaks to try first.

ok i alrady had vfio.conf, so i called it vfio2.conf. i pasted that line in, saved it and rebooted. still the same issue. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

ok i alrady had vfio.conf, so i called it vfio2.conf. i pasted that line in, saved it and rebooted. still the same issue. 

did you make the new initramfs? if you don't do that it won't do anything at all

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

did you make the new initramfs? if you don't do that it won't do anything at all

how? i'm not an expert at this sorry  

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

how? i'm not an expert at this sorry  

on fedora

sudo dracut -f

[Ashleyyyy]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

on fedora

sudo dracut -f

YES it woked. omg thank you! no error this time!

i'm gonna download Windows 10 now, install it and see if it works  

[Ashleyyyy]

@Electronics Wizardy i'm currently installing Windows 10 on the VM, but i did notice i'm getting a lot of kernel-core crashes or something.. the system is functioning normally so... what could that be?

[Electronics Wizardy]

51 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

@Electronics Wizardy i'm currently installing Windows 10 on the VM, but i did notice i'm getting a lot of kernel-core crashes or something.. the system is functioning normally so... what could that be?

is this just the popup in fedora? Id ignore them unless they are cuasing an issues, looks like the board did something wrong and you need that workaround.

[Ashleyyyy]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

is this just the popup in fedora? Id ignore them unless they are cuasing an issues, looks like the board did something wrong and you need that workaround.

yeah it's a popup in fedora. nothing's crashing or whatever. i did plug in my second display into my 780Ti's displayport, and then the whole display started glitching, but that might have been a driver thing because after a reboot it's fixed. 

 

by the way, the passthrough works perfectly. i've installed the drivers for my 290X and i'm watching some youtube in my VM while i wait for Overwatch to download, but so far it's stable. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

yeah it's a popup in fedora. nothing's crashing or whatever. i did plug in my second display into my 780Ti's displayport, and then the whole display started glitching, but that might have been a driver thing because after a reboot it's fixed. 

 

by the way, the passthrough works perfectly. i've installed the drivers for my 290X and i'm watching some youtube in my VM while i wait for Overwatch to download, but so far it's stable. 

what driver are you running on the 780? id run the nvidia drivers if your not already.

[Ashleyyyy]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what driver are you running on the 780? id run the nvidia drivers if your not already.

i googled how to install them and it's quite complicated... if you can link me to a good guide i'll install them... 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

i googled how to install them and it's quite complicated... if you can link me to a good guide i'll install them... 

this is about as simple as its gets.

 

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

 

Add their repo, then just a dnf install and a reboot. There package does all the hardwork

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

this is about as simple as its gets.

 

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

 

Add their repo, then just a dnf install and a reboot. There package does all the hardwork

thank you! the guide i found was like you need to blacklist nouveau etc... 

 

massive thank you for all of your help by the way  

[Ashleyyyy]

@Electronics Wizardy i installed the nvidia driver, but it doesn't want to run... the 780Ti is still running nouveau, and if i try to open nvidia-settings i get an error saying the nvidia drivers are not loaded... 

[Ashleyyyy]

7 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

is this just the popup in fedora? Id ignore them unless they are cuasing an issues, looks like the board did something wrong and you need that workaround.

ok i got 2 lockups, like my system completely froze, and then i got a ram error code after the second reboot. turns out i think i had a defective ram stick that was causing that... because i removed it and now everything's fine. no kernel crashes or freezes.