10-31-2013, 01:31 PM
(10-31-2013, 04:30 AM)Corned Beef Wrote: If only they offered the Tyan's pre-configured with four 7990's instead of Teslas which are 3-4 times as expensive, my company might have gone for it.
they do. with warranty and support packages even.
(10-31-2013, 04:30 AM)Corned Beef Wrote: Instead of using a backported kernel, I was going to just install quantal or raring so I didn't have to deal with backporting xorg.
you don't have to deal with backporting xorg. it's in precise's repo. just like the backported kernel. ''apt-cache search lts-raring''
(10-31-2013, 04:30 AM)Corned Beef Wrote: Can I ask what you did to get your Tyan boxes up and running?
it doesn't sound like you are encountering any of the common issues, so i'd recommend clearing the bios and starting over from scratch.
with a clear bios, it should show you a message in the bios telling you that you do not have enough memory for all available pci devices. this is when you go in and enable above 4G decoding to enable 64bit resource handling.
if you are not even getting this far, then it sounds like your board might be damaged.