November 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-amd64] SCSI with PCI card vs IDE on 9.2 way off topiic
by bob sandefur 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

This is way off topic but: Go to http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm Download and install. This is a commerical product with 30 free tries but I will buy it when my 30 tries run out I have 4gb of ram so your performance msy be worse if you have less ram and better if you have more? ( I think 32 bir XP stops at 4gb). Regards Bob -----Original Message----- From: Wigbert Lindenbauer [mailto:wlindenbauer@t-online.de] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 16:33 To: bob sandefur Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] SCSI with PCI card vs IDE on 9.2 off topic a bit bob sandefur schrieb: > Hi- > > I was booted in windows XP so I tried the RAM disk solution suggested > by Peter and got a factor of 2 improvement running cygwin and the > Cenatek XP ram disk. This is more than I would have expected going to > SCSI so in this case it appears RAM disk is the way to go. > Hello Bob, I am not an XP expert. Is it easy to create a RAMdisk under XP ? Do you have a short description, how to do it ? Do I need extra drivers for this? Best regards Wigbert

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SynCe on 64 bit Suse 9.2?
by detlef.grittner＠t-online.de 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Is there a package for SynCe on the 64 bit version of Suse Linux 9.2? I know there is one for 32 bit, although I never got it working with Suse 9.1.

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Suse 9.2 CD1 64-bit installation
by Chiu, PCM (Peter) 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

I have just experienced that 9.2 installation with CD1 on an Opteron box will only bring up the 32-bit mode. Is there a reason for that, and a way round this other than using a dvd drive? Thanks.

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SCSI with PCI card vs IDE on 9.2 off topic a bit
by bob sandefur 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hi- Does anyone have any experience if a scsi dirve on a PCI card is faster than IDE with 9.2 SUSE? If so how much faster and what PCI cards and scsi drives are you using? I am reading and writing a 0.5 gb geological model multiple times and seem to be IO bound Thanx Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite G-13 Lakewood, Co 80228 rsandefur(a)cam-llc.com 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14

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RE: [suse-amd64] A warning to anyone expecting "support" from sus e.com
by Janis Klava 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Loosen up everybody, By now it should be obvious to everyone that Marshall Kiam-Laine is not a well person. The turkey probably already works for Micro$haft :)) But it sure is getting tiresome having this verbage polute the site. Ignore and Spamassassin him. Andi?

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RE: [suse-amd64] Suse 9.2 CD1 64-bit installation
by Chiu, PCM (Peter) 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Thanks, Andreas, I take it that it is not an easy job of creating a 64-bit boot CD for network installation. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: 26 November 2004 16:53 To: Chiu, PCM (Peter) Cc: 'suse-amd64(a)suse.com' Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Suse 9.2 CD1 64-bit installation "Chiu, PCM (Peter)" <P.C.M.Chiu(a)rl.ac.uk> writes: > I have just experienced that 9.2 installation with CD1 on > an Opteron box will only bring up the 32-bit mode. Is there a reason > for that, and a way round this other than using a dvd drive? That's correct. The CDs are only 32-bit x86. You really have to use the DVD for a 64-bit installation... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Dont expect any "support" from suse.com !
by Marshall Kiam-Laine 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

>>we will not communicate on such a level with you. ***well thats not a surprise, since so far "your company" have refused to communicate on ANY level, so what difference has occured ? you have spent a LOT (LOT) of time telling me what you WONT do, but almost NO time on a few (probably simple) solutions. So for a "manager" you have failed AGAIN, just wasting time ..... >Please take a course in politeness and Netiquett before contacting us again. ***what would be the point of that ? since you would STILL refuse to be of any help ? (dont forget i WAS as polite as anyonelse at the BEGINNING, its only NOW that you have demonstrated your STUBBORN ignorance that i Reflect your own covert mannerisms). you know what "covert" means ? AND even if i pay for your "Advanced Support", you still say "we will take the money but NOT guarantee to be of any use" is your "company" typical of german software support ? AND after experiencing the appalling low level of your general intelligences, who would expect you to be able to solve anything anyway ? after all youre "only a distributor" as you just told me. ***so you are tricking people into buying your OS on the pretence of being helpful - when you simply are not. Your leaflet says "we will gladly provide assistance", so why are you not "glad" to hear from ME then sandra ? >If you are angry about our support conditions, it is no reason to blame me or our company. ***you pretended to be "sincere" didnt you. so why havent you answered the last mail PROPERLY ? >I don't mind about my english, since I am not a native speaker too. ***your #written# english is perfectly good enough sandra, but you have a big EGO problem, in that you wont admit that anyone other than you could be right. Its the SPOKEN english of your spanish guys on the PHONE that is hopeless. dont you know the difference between writing and speaking yet ? "blurp it in de blobby" apparently meant "put it in the floppy". >We will not lay-off any of our staff, just because they are not native speakers in english. ***you dont have to be a native speaker, but you DO have to be understandable, and NOT full of incessant egotistic arguments. do you know what "incessant" means ? >That would be very ignorant. ***well you already are, so again whats the difference ? Yours sincerely, Sandra Wiegratz ***ah, youre being "sincere" again, but STILL not being of any USE ! you remind me of Hitler, he was "sincere" wasnt he. now be a good girl, and go back to the last mail and answer it PROPERLY, sentence by sentence. thank you.

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Re: [suse-amd64] OT - blobbysh rubbish - feeding the troll
by Matt T. 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

On Thursday 25 November 2004 16:51, Marshall Kiam-Laine wrote: [snip] > > ***my shrink doesnt know anything about linux : just like you germans :) germans??? > > >he might be able to help you with your linux problem, better than we could > >ever do. > So you top your performance here with changing my words. Interesting. (I wrote "real problem", not "linux problem") You absolutely need to show that to your shrink. You need professional help. Quickly. May be it's not too late yet. [snip] > > incidentally my speciality is Philosophy and Ethics, Are you sure about that? [snip]

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lost interrupts problem
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Yesterday logcheck sent me a message about lost interrupts "kernel: hda: lost interrupt" yet all seemed to be working well Google threw up many reports of this error, but no consistent explanation or context for it occurring. On balance, I would say that software, perhaps kernel, errors, or configuration issues, seemed to outnumber hardware ones in the proffered explanations. But I am none the wiser. My machine then locked up when experimenting with some unsupported software in crossover. On rebooting it went into a loop involving lost interrupts and I reset the machine and went into Windows to see if that was working - which it was with no problems (I realise that that's not necessarily much of a guide, but it did rule out catastrophic hardware problems). On rebooting linux, the boot process proceeded normally and the system seems to be fine at the moment, though I do have "submountd: resmgr: server response code 200" messages and I remember that resmgr was upgraded the previous night (I have no idea whether there could be a connection between this and the lost interrupts). I'd appreciate some guidance on how to deal with this. The system, which has operated fine for the last 6 months, is MSI K8T Master dual opteron, with up-to-date bios, 4GB memory, one maxtor drive on first IDE, DVD on second IDE, and a second Maxtor on a promise PCI card, 2.6.5-7.111-smp, 9.1 Prof. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

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Re: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA 16 bits card with kernel 2.4.21 and 2.6.8 AMD64
by patheve2 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hello Matt At first, I tested my Com One modem card MC277 with WinXP on my laptop (WinXP, SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1). Sure, it works without driver. I had a look in the hardware profil. WinXp gives this : - first socket : memory ranges : fd200000-fd200fff , feaf7000-feaf7fff , fb200000-fd1fffff, feafc000-feafcfff I/O ranges : dc00-dcff , d400-d4ff - second socket : memory ranges : fa200000-fa200fff , feaf5000-feaf5fff , fdaf5000-feaf4fff , feaf6000-feaf6ffff I/O ranges : d000-d0ff , cc00-ccff - PCI bridge : I/O range : b000-dfff memory range : f8a00000-feafffff (NB : same info than with lspci -v) After pluggin of the MC227, WinXP "says" about it : IRQ: 09 I/O Range : c8f8-c8ff port : COM5 driver : serial.sys, modem.sys In case of the Hayes modem card, the port is COM4 instead of COM5 and there is a 3rd driver : hayes.sys So, why not to use these data in the config.opts file ? For memory : fa200000-feafcfff, for I/O : b000-dcff . I did it but with no success. I don't now which values to use for I/O and memory :-) . I tried with the range of PCI bridge : no success. No more hope ? Regards Pascal ============================================ On Tuesday 23 November 2004 04:34, patheve2 wrote: /> Hello / /> / /> Yes, I confirm that the infos I gave are the right ones for / /> kernel 2.6.8 . For no confusion (right english word ?) I join the / /> 3 files : serial.opts, config and config.opts. I used these for he / /> following tests. Curious behaviour of the modem card, in particular / /> the Com One which should work according this website : / /> http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_ci10478.html / /> So, with these below details, I hope that it will help you to find the / /> reason why the modem cards are so "hard" to work properly :-) / /> / /> Regards / /> / /> Pascal / /> / /> 1/ case of the Com Oen card MC227 (modem) / /> So, before pluggin : / /> / /> - lsmod : / /> / /> ds 21128 4 / /> yenta_socket 21248 0 / /> pcmcia_core 66188 2 ds,yenta_socket / /> / /> And after pluggin : / /> / /> - dmesg : / /> cs: memory probe 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000: excluding 0xf8a00000-0xfa4f3fff / /> 0xfadf0000-0xfb26dfff 0xfb6ec000-0xfd65dfff / this is *not* good. On my system serial_cs says which serial port it did assign to the card (I'm not at the system, so I cannot quote the exact message). Once it worked, it did not mention the memory ranges, which it did scan, anymore. This looks as if you insert the card, then cs gets started, scans the memory, but does not find anything. Thus the card does not get a serial port assigned. You need to work on the memory / port ranges, as long as there is no serial port assigned to your card by serial_cs. (If the card does not need a special driver, then of course serial_cs is irrelevant, but that driver would need to get loaded). /> / /> - more /var/log/messages under root login : / /> / /> Nov 22 21:37:13 snidre kernel: cs: memory probe 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000: / /> excluding 0xf8a00000-0xfa4f3fff 0xfadf0000-0xfb26dfff 0xfb6ec000-0xfd65dfff / /> Nov 22 21:37:13 snidre cardmgr[2816]: socket 0: Serial or Modem / /> / /> - lsmod : / /> serial_cs 11176 1 / /> ds 21128 5 serial_cs / /> yenta_socket 21248 1 / /> pcmcia_core 66188 3 serial_cs,ds,yenta_socket / /> / /> - ls -al /dev/mod* : / /> / /> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 22 21:37 /dev/modem -> /dev/cua4 / /> / /> / /> 2/ case of the Hayes Optima288 card (modem) : / /> / /> - more /var/log/messages under root login (not enough data with only / /> dmesg) : / /> / /> Nov 22 21:44:28 snidre cardmgr[2816]: socket 0: Hayes Optima 288 / /> Nov 22 21:44:29 snidre kernel: ttyS5 at I/O 0xd000 (irq = 9) is a 16450 / Here ttyS5 seems to get assigned. I wonder why dmesg does not show it. Is there really no mention of ttyS5 in dmesg? /> / /> - lsmod : / /> / /> serial_cs 11176 1 / /> ds 21128 5 serial_cs / /> yenta_socket 21248 1 / /> pcmcia_core 66188 3 serial_cs,ds,yenta_socket / /> / /> - ls -al /dev/mod* : / /> / /> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 22 21:44 /dev/modem -> /dev/cua5 / I do not think that /dev/cua5 is the good device. Try to make a link /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS5 instead, and try to talk to the modem (minicom should be OK, or dial with kppp) If this does not work, then your back at the problem that serial_cs does not read your card correctly. Sorry, in a rush, the car is leaving. HTH, Matt

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