GhostBSD and Ryzen
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 10:35 am
My FX-8350 cpu recently died (one week out of the warranty period if you can believe it!) so I had to rebuild my computer. I could have just bought another cpu but my motherboard was a dud (dead RAM slot and PCI slot) so I decided to see how GhostBSD would run on the new Ryzen cpu.
My specs (partial)
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
Motherboard : Asus Prime X370A
RAM: Corsair 16gb DDR4
I installed the new parts hooked up the drives, graphics card and new sound card and fired it up.
It wouldn't boot to the desktop. I got messages about not being able to read /hd1 or something and then I remembered I had edited fstab because I have 3 drives so I edited fstab while as single user to only include the boot drive and it booted fine. After boot I edited fstab to include the other drives and all is well.
Then there was no internet. The ethernet device on my old motherboard was em0. On the new motherboard it is re0 (Realtek). I edited the line ifconfig_em0="DHCP" to ifconfig_re0="DHCP" in rc.conf and now internet is fine. Quite fast actually.
Then no sound. My card (Onkyo SE-90 WAVIO) with Envy24MT chip had no driver attached. I put "snd_envy24ht_load="YES"" into loader.conf and the sound is great. However the xfce4 mixer won't change the volume. Only the PCM volume. Maybe I can fix this. This was strange because on my old sound card the kernel module was loaded automatically and it worked "out of the box".
The other change I had to make was to disable powerd in rc.conf. I was getting a lot of error messages about not being able to set cpu frequency and it was running slow. Disabling powerd improved things a lot. Perhaps powerd needs to be updated? I don't know if this powerd problem would adversely affect an install of GhostBSD.
All in all everything seems to be running fine.
So if you're contemplating using a Ryzen go for it.
My specs (partial)
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
Motherboard : Asus Prime X370A
RAM: Corsair 16gb DDR4
I installed the new parts hooked up the drives, graphics card and new sound card and fired it up.
It wouldn't boot to the desktop. I got messages about not being able to read /hd1 or something and then I remembered I had edited fstab because I have 3 drives so I edited fstab while as single user to only include the boot drive and it booted fine. After boot I edited fstab to include the other drives and all is well.
Then there was no internet. The ethernet device on my old motherboard was em0. On the new motherboard it is re0 (Realtek). I edited the line ifconfig_em0="DHCP" to ifconfig_re0="DHCP" in rc.conf and now internet is fine. Quite fast actually.
Then no sound. My card (Onkyo SE-90 WAVIO) with Envy24MT chip had no driver attached. I put "snd_envy24ht_load="YES"" into loader.conf and the sound is great. However the xfce4 mixer won't change the volume. Only the PCM volume. Maybe I can fix this. This was strange because on my old sound card the kernel module was loaded automatically and it worked "out of the box".
The other change I had to make was to disable powerd in rc.conf. I was getting a lot of error messages about not being able to set cpu frequency and it was running slow. Disabling powerd improved things a lot. Perhaps powerd needs to be updated? I don't know if this powerd problem would adversely affect an install of GhostBSD.
All in all everything seems to be running fine.
So if you're contemplating using a Ryzen go for it.