The Acer Nitro V15 has a discrete nvidia GeForxe RTX 4060 mobile. Turns out, the default firmware leaves some performance untapped [GPU].1. follow the project instructions [GPU] to download, build and install.2. specifically, the 4060m requires a kernel parameter in grub: "gpu_unlock.targets=0000:01:00.0 gpu_unlock.ad107_experimental=1"You'll have to find the exact address with lspci. Yes, it needs the … Continue reading Improving LLM prefill on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 mobile
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Auditing VRAM: Ensuring Every Gigabyte is Real
Counterfeit storage devices, such as USB flash drives and SSDs with modified controller firmware that report false capacities, rely on address wrapping: writes beyond physical memory silently overwrite earlier blocks modulo the actual capacity. With increased interest in home AI labs, one could imagine similar practices to start appearing in the second-hand GPU market. While … Continue reading Auditing VRAM: Ensuring Every Gigabyte is Real
Ubuntu on the Acer Nitro ANV15-41
Updated 2025-07-28 This is a short post about running Ubuntu 24.04 on the Acer nitro ANV15-41 aka Nitro V15. If you are interested in previous post about installing Ubuntu on various laptops, maybe check out Acer Nitro 5, HP ProBook, Asus VivoBook, Lenovo Thinkpad and HP Victus. Installation Installation from an USB SSD worked fine … Continue reading Ubuntu on the Acer Nitro ANV15-41
Ubuntu 24.04 on the HP Victus
This is a short follow-up on Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus [UVC] Hardware support is just as good/bad as with Ubuntu 22.04, so all findings from [UVC] apply here, too. The display manager is still X11, I have not tried Wayland. Video hardware acceleration with VLC and SMPlayer snap installations now works, but requires … Continue reading Ubuntu 24.04 on the HP Victus
USB harddrive not showing on USB 3.0 port
A particular USB harddrive won't show up in the device list under Ubuntu 18.04 when connected to a USB 3.0 port of the HP proliant microsever gen8 though it will show up when connected to a USB 2.0 port. The symptoms are that the drive won't list with fdisk -l nor how up under /dev/sdX. … Continue reading USB harddrive not showing on USB 3.0 port
