Fedora 42 on Orion 6

#1

Hi there,
I’ve just installed Fedora 42 ( BIOS 9.0.0, ACPI).
Questions: outout from inxi -F:
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: N/A bits: 64 type: MCP
Speed (MHz): avg: 1079 min/max: 800/2600:2300:2200:2500 cores: 1: 1079 2: 1079 3: 1079 4: 1079
5: 1079 6: 1079 7: 1079 8: 1079

Why are only 8 CPUs, the Cortex A720 ? Where are the A520 ?

I found on my very old Workstation NVIDIA GK107 [GeForce GT 630 OEM} which is running fine with the nouveau driver. Not the fastet GPU but it’s working for the fist steps till I get a better one.
Andreas

#2

I am trying to get my NVIDIA GT 730 to work. Which boot parameter do you use to get HDMI output. I am struggling. Use DP for internal graphics but change to external graphics
will not happen. not with nouveau nor nvidia-tesla-470 driver.
Any hint will be helpfull.
regards
Uli

#3

I don’t have any boot parameter. On my system: everything from BIOS is on onboard GPU, screen on NVIDIA card is only when X (Wayland) is running

Andreas

#4

The 9.x BIOS is a CIX hack job to get arm certification, which requires Windows to work. Right now, Windows fails if the little cores are enabled, so they just disabled them to get a pass.

The 0.3.0 BIOS will work with Fedora 42 (in ACPI mode) and has all 12 cores.

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#5

My orion doesn’t even start gdm3 or inits to level 3, only black screen.
Maybe someone else does has an idea ?

#6

Thanks a lot for this hint, I will downgrade the BIOS to 0.3.0.
Andreas

#7

Great, it’s working

andreas@orion:~$ inxi -C
CPU:
Info: 12-core model: N/A bits: 64 type: MCP
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/2500:1801:2300:2200:2400 cores: 1: 800
2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800
12: 800
andreas@orion:~$

#8

Fedora Rawhide and GT 730 works, but radxa not. But Wlan Ax 200 is still not working.

#9

Should be working with the next BIOS update, as per the Radxa team.

#10

If Radxa is talking to you then they should talk to others as well.
All questions in this forum about bios and debian updates have not been answered.
I already have lost faith in Radxa. If they depend on cix we never will see updates.
regards
Uli

#11

I just repeated what was said in the forum and what they have pulled as commit in the edk on their Github.