June 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Multipath drivers in SuSE9.3 and SLES9
by johncraig01＠netscape.net 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way to implement multipath failover for an Engenio RAID storage system. I am running SuSE 9.3 x86-64 on the host. The multipath-tools-0.2.1-3 is installed. The kernel is 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp. I am currently using the storage sytem without multipath. 6 LUNs plus a special access device are mapped (twice each) to devices /dev/sda - /dev/sdm. The redundant device names represent paths via each of the 2 RAID controlers in the system. Each LUN is formatted with a LVM2 partition, and all 6 are joined to form 1 logical volume, using the currently active devices. The problem, of course is that in the event of a failover of 1 of the controllers, the devices assigned to it become inactive, and IO is routed through the other controller, using the other device names. In that event, it should be possible to reboot the host system, and it should be able to reconstruct the LVM volume group, since LVM2 uses the wwid of the LUNS, instead of the device names. But, that involves interruption of serice and downtime, and defeats the purpose of having a dual controller system. So, I need to get multipath working. and so far, I don't know how to do it. From what I have been able to gather from the multipath-tools homepage http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr it work with the dev-mapper system in 2.6.x, and you typically set it up by defining the device maps at the command prompt wth /sbin/multipath. It is not clear from the documentation what makes the dm table persistent across reboots. It does say that you can optionally use a file /etc/multipath.conf but there is no example of this file provided, and I have no idea what the syntax would be. The documentation does say that you should be able to run the command multipath -v and it should come back with a list of paths, multipaths, and device maps. When I do that, it reports nothing. Could it be that this will only work if you have previously defined device maps? Or is it that my hardware is not recognized by version 0.2.1-3 of multpath-tools? I am hesitant at ths point to start adding device maps at the command prompt, because the system is in service, and I can't afford to take it off line right now (beside, I have no idea what I'm doing). Anyway, I should mention that there is a bug in the /etc/init.d/multipathd init script. The "restart" section is missing, but a simple edit will fix that. After fixing the init script, multipathd can be configured with the runlevel editor and it loads normally. Now, I noticed that SLES9 SP1 includes multipath-tools-0.3.6-0.3. This is a more recent version than is included in SuSE Professional 9.3, and was presumably added to improve functionality. Question: How well does SLES9 handle multipath devices? Maybe the soution to my problem is to buy SLES9? Any help or advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Craig __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

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Problems building GTK+ apps in 9.3
by edward winston 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

I am having problems building application using GTK with the new version of 9.3 professional for AMD64. I am trying to build Xscreensaver. All of the hacks build fine, but when it gets to the demo program, I get errors during linking. So, after doing a configure and build, it fails in the driver directory. The last lines i get are : edward@ws:/buildarea/xscreensaver-4.22/driver> make gcc -pedantic -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs -std=c89 - U__STRICT_ANSI__ -L/usr/local/lib -o xscreensaver-demo-Gtk prefs.o dpms.o remote.o exec.o ../utils/resources.o ../utils/usleep.o ../utils/visual.o demo-Gtk.o demo-Gtk-conf.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 \ -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/ usr/lib64 -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz - lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 - lgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl - lglib-2.0 -lXmu -lXpm -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/opt/gnome/lib64 - lgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl - lglib-2.0 -lSM -lICE \ -lXt -lX11 -lXinerama -lXext /opt/gnome/lib64/ libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_menu_tool_button_get_type' /opt/ gnome/lib64/libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_file_chooser_button_get_type' /opt/gnome/lib64/libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_icon_view_get_type' /opt/gnome/lib64/ libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_about_dialog_get_type' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [xscreensaver-demo-Gtk] Error 1 This is a machine that was updated from Suse 9.1 (no 9.2 in the middle). I don't know if there are older versions of gtk2 that are expected, or what. I also get this message when i try to configure : checking for pkg-config... / usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... *** 'pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0' returned 2.6.4, but GTK+ (2.4.4) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best *** to remove the old version of GTK+. You may also be able to fix the error *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is *** required on your system. *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH *** to point to the correct configuration files I am thinking that they may be related. Has anyone else run into this? If so, what did you do to get around the problem? Thanks, edward

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wmv files and MPlayer/Xine
by Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Hi all. Can MPlayer and/or Xine play wmv files in SuSE 9.3? When I try to play a wmv file with MPlayer, I hear only audio and get the following errors: -----------------SNIP---------------- Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ----------------SNIP------------------ The reason I decided to post this question was that I did read 'DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html', but I did not see anything about wmv files. I perused MPlayer's codecs URL, but I did not see anything there either. I tried different '-vo ' (video output) options, but to no avail (which is understandable if the problem is the codec). Trying to play the same file with kaffeine (xine-based), I get similar behavior: the audio plays fine, but no video. What did I do wrong? I have an nVidia GeForce 440 To Go 64M card (on a Compaq Presario R3000Z-series AMD64-based laptop, which I bought specifically because it had an nVidia card and was 64-bit) . I compiled MPlayer from source because I could not get the rpms from the apt-get repositories to work right. (Other files, like MPEG, play fine, so I am definitely missing a codec.) If I run './configure --help', I do not see anything referring to the missing codec(s) --or did I miss the obvious? TIA for any help. CF

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9.3: Many conflicts on yast update KDE3.4 -> KDE3.4.1
by Werner Franke 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hello all, I got very many conflicts on a YAST package update to kde 3.4.1. I downloaded the yast-sources files from ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source/ and ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/updat… set the install source to the local directory and start "Install and Remove Software". Then I marked all new packages to be upated. Yast reports me over 800 lines of "not fulfilled dependences", but the missing files and packages are installed. Example: Conflict with amarok 1.2.4-3 not fulfilled dependences: amarok needs libmusicbrainz.so.4 amarok needs libsqlite3.so.0 amarok needs libtunepimp.so.2 but: locate libmusicbrainz.so.4 libsqlite3.so.0 libtunepimp.so.2 /usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz.so.4.0.0 /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0 /usr/lib64/libtunepimp.so.2 rpm -qal | grep libmusicbrainz.so.4 /usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz.so.4 /usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz.so.4.0.0 A update in the same way on 32bit system under SUSE 9.3 works fine. Does have anybody a hint for me ? Thanks, Werner Franke

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PCI BAR1 register
by Pierre Patino 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Greetings I'm working on a driver for a PCI card. During the installation, I read the BAR0 and BAR1 registers two different ways and I get two different results for BAR1. pci_resource_start(0) = A pci_read_config_dword(0x10) = A pci_resource_start(1) = B pci_read_config_dword(0x14) = B+8 Any ideas anyone? I've tried this on two systems, same hardware. Kernels 2.6.5-7.155 and 2.6.11.xxx. x86_64 flavo(u)rs. TIA & cheers -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-programming-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-programming-e-help(a)suse.com Archives can be found at: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-programming-e

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subfs troubles
by Philippe Andersson 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hello list, I'm fighting for a few months now with a brand new Athlon 3.2GHz-based workstation that I would like to get installed with 9.3, but it's causing me an unusual amount of headaches. The first issue I'd like to raise with you: I can't get subfs/submount to work for DVDs and blank medias. Its working like a charm for plain CDs and USB media (keys, CompactFlash cards, digital camera, etc.). submount of DVD media worked once, right after the (one of the very many) installs, but then stopped working. Current install is pretty vanilla. Not fully patched yet, but I installed the following ones, in the hope they might help: - hal-0.4.7-26.3.x86_64.rpm - hotplug-0.50-19.2.x86_64.rpm - submount-0.9-61.2.x86_64.rpm - udev-053-15.2.x86_64.rpm They don't. Here is a short run-down of the hardware I'm using: Motherboard: ASUS K8N-E Deluxe (BIOS flash-upgraded to release 1006, dated 08/10/2004) CPU: AMD Athlon-64 @ 3.2 GHz RAM: 1 GB (2 x 512 MB, Kingston) Disk: 2 x Western Digital 200 GB SATA (WD2000JD) CD/DVD: Plextor DVD-ROM PX-116A CD/DVD burner: Plextor DVD+/-RW PX-716A Graphic card: Asus V9570 TD 256 MB AGP (= GeForce FX 5700) Mouse: Logitech Click! Optical USB Network board: 3Com 3C905CX Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI Sound card: Turtlebeach Santa Cruz Would any of you have some experience to share on this issue (or on the hardware involved) ? More technical details are at hand, if needed. TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- ----------- | IBA | /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Ion Beam Applications, S.A.| Philippe Andersson */ /* Av. Albert Einstein, 4, | Unix Admin. Control Team */ /* B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve | pan(a)iba.be */ /* BELGIUM | +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-475.837 */ /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

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SuSe 9.3 installer.
by Brad Dameron 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

The installer under SuSe 9.3 64-bit, could be 32-bit but didn't test, appears to install the MegaRAID driver incorrectly. In the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file the INITRD_MODULES line should only need the "megaraid_mbox" driver which then loads the megaraid driver. However in 9.3 you do the following: "megaraid_mbox megaraid" which then tries to reload the megaraid driver causing several lines of errors. Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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Need Suse 9.3 Guru cpuspeed Help
by Col Jim Creech 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

RE: my Sager 4750 64-bit laptop with Suse 9.3 x86-64 I'm stuck at 800Mhz & want to run at 2400Mhz! cpuspeed and cpufrequtils are installed. cpuspeed in Suse 9.3 is renamed from cpufreq from earlier versions & I can't find very much info. My relevant dmesg info: ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (39 C) powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e) powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV) powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV) powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV) powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV) cpu_init done, current fid 0x0, vid 0x0 Runlevel_Editor shows: acpid not enabled cpuspeed not enabled powersaved enabled In yast, /etc/sysconfig-Editor, system, powermngt, CPUFREQ_MODULE I have powernow-k8.ko (for x86-64) In yast, /etc/sysconfig-Editor, system, powersave/cpu/powersave_CPUFREQD_MODULE I have a blank space but it says: "The powersaved startscript will load this module for CPU frequency scaling support. If nothing is specified here, the most common cpufreq modules will be tried. Entering the correct module will reduce the warnings in syslog during boot and probably speed up booting a bit. Entering "off" will skip trying to load cpufreq modules and avoid warnings on machines with no cpufreq-capable hardware." In /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-21.7-default/kernel/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq I have these modules available to use: acpi-cpufreq.ko, and powernow-k8.ko jim@laptop:~> cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 0.2: cpufreq-info © Dominik Brodowski 2004 Report errors and bugs to linux(a)brodo.de, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: powernow-k8 CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.40 GHz available frequency steps: 2.40 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz (--all of which are the same as the data in the files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq) available cpufreq governors: userspace, performance current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 2.40 GHz. The governor "userspace" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 800 MHz. jim@laptop:~> man userspace No manual entry for userspace jim@laptop:~> man cpufreq No manual entry for cpufreq man cpuspeed This daemon needs cpufreq support in the kernel. If this is build as modules you have to load the modules 'speedstep-centrino' or 'speed‐ step' for mobile Intel processors or 'powernow-k6' or 'powernow-k7' for mobile AMD processors. After that you still need the module 'userspace'. note: I can't find the module 'userspace' & don't know where to put it if I could find it! Readings: 1. /usr/share/doc/packages/cpuspeed/README.SuSE CPU frequency scaling This package (cpuspeed) has been renamed. It's former name was cpufreqd. It can be found on the author's (Carl Thompson) homepage: http://carlthompson.net/Software/CPUSpeed/ This package is an alternative to the powersave package that provides the default daemon to control the frequency of your CPU and has a lot additional features concerning powersave issues. Consider that you can only run one of the daemons. To adjust the frequency of your CPU to the current workload you may use the cpuspeed. Start it via 'rccpuspeed start'. If you like it to be started at bootime, call 'chkconfig cpuspeed on' or use the YaST2 runlevel editor. The configuration variables are placed in /etc/sysconfig/powermanagement. Look for variable names starting with 'CPUSPEED_'. You may also use YaST sysconfig editor for configuration. If you need always full power for a certain period, you may call 'rccpuspeed high'. This will set the CPU persistent to it's maximum clock speed. If you want to save battery power you may call 'rccpuspeed low'. This will set the CPU persistent to it's minimum clock speed. To switch back to a variable CPU clock sleed call 'rccpuspeed reload' The cpuspeed startscript loads some needed kernel modules. At first one of 'speedstep-centrino', 'speedstep', 'powernow-k6' or 'powernow-k7'. This provides some CPU clock management information in /proc/cpufreq (2.4.x kernels) or /sys/devices/system/cpu*/cpufreq/* (2.6.x kernels). Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cpufreq/ for details. The following processors are currently supported by cpufreq in 2.4.21 kernels(number is steadily increasing): AMD Elan - SC400, SC410 AMD mobile K6-2+ AMD mobile K6-3+ AMD mobile Duron/Athlon K7 AMD Athlon64 (should all support frequency scaling) Cyrix Media GXm Intel mobile PIII [*] and Intel mobile PIII-M on certain chipsets Intel Xeon Pentium M (Banias, Dothan) National Semiconductors Geode GX Transmeta Crusoe Multiprocessor machines (Opteron and EM64T) should work as well if they support CPU frequency scaling. If not try a BIOS update. [*] only certain Intel mobile PIII processors are supported. If you know that you own a speedstep-capable processor, pass the option "speedstep_coppermine=1" to the module speedstep.o See also the manpage cpuspeed(1). 2. /usr/share/doc/packages/cpuspeed/USAGE cpuspeed v1.2.1 This program monitors the system's idle percentage and reduces or raises the CPUs' clock speeds and voltages accordingly to minimize power consumption when idle and maximize performance when needed. This is the default. The program may also optionally be configured to reduce the CPUs' clock speeds if the temperature gets too high, NOT minimize their speeds if the computer's AC adapter is disconnected or maximize their speeds when the AC adapter is connected. By default this program will manage every CPU found in the system. Usage: cpuspeed [Options] Options: -d Tells the process to daemonize itself (run in background). -i <interval> Sets the interval between idle percentage tests and possible speed changes in tenths of a second (default is 20). -p <fast up> <threshold> Sets the CPU idle percentage thresholds. <fast up> is the idle percentage below which a CPU will be set to the highest possible speed. <threshold> is the idle percentage above which a CPU's speed will be decreased and below which a CPU's speed will be increased (defaults are 10 and 25). -m <minimum speed> Sets the minimum speed in KHz below which a CPU will not be set. -M <maximum speed> Sets the maximum speed in KHz above which a CPU will not be set. -t <temp file> <maxtemp> Sets the ACPI temperature file and the temperature at which CPUs will be set to minimum speed. -T <interval> Sets the interval at which the temperature will be polled in tenths of a second (default is 10). (Requires the '-t' option above.) -a <AC file> Sets the ACPI AC adapter state file and tells the program to set the CPUs to minimum speed when the AC adapter is disconnected. (This is the default but is changeable by the '-D' option below). -A <interval> Sets the interval at which the AC adapter state will be polled in tenths of a second (default is 50). (Requires the '-a' option above.) -C Run at maximum speed when AC adapter is connected. (Requires the '-a' option above.) -D Do NOT force minimum speed when AC adapter is disconnected. (Requires the '-a' option above.) -r Restores previous speed on program exit. -s <CPU> Manage only a single CPU. <CPU> specifies the number of the CPU to manage and is in the range 0 to (n-1) where 'n' is the number of CPUs in the system. Without this option the program creates copies of itself to manage every CPU in the system. To have a CPU stay at the highest clock speed to maximize performance send the process controlling that CPU the SIGUSR1 signal. To have a CPU stay at the lowest clock speed to maximize battery life send the process controlling that CPU the SIGUSR2 signal. To resume having a CPU's clock speed dynamically scaled send the process controlling that CPU the SIGHUP signal. Author: Carl Thompson - cet [at] carlthompson.net (copyright 2002 - 2005) This guy has had success with Gentoo install on the same laptop here: http://www.ser1.net/Files/Reviews/Sager4750.html "4.4. PowerManagement Make sure you compile the cpufreq_* modules for the kernel, load them on boot, emerge powernowd, and use rc-update to start it by default. It'll control adjusting your CPU frequency on demand. If you've compiled ACPI, which you should, the CPU temperature is in /proc/acpi/thermal_zones/THRM/temperature. Just 'cat' it. CPU information is in /proc/cpuinfo. You can also compile all of the i2c modules, emerge the lm-sensors package, and get some information from the motherboard. I don't know much about this, but there are several sensors, none of which I've been able to get any useful information out of. On the other hand, I don't know what I'm looking for, so..." What are 'i2c modules'? What is 'emerge the lm-sensors package'? I don't know either! That's all the info I have on the subject. I have tried various combos of modules in yast, /etc/sysconfig-Editor in various places to no avail. Ergo, I turn to the community for help getting cpuspeed functional -- thus getting my laptop to run at 2400Mhz. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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DWL-G520+ and SuSE 9.3
by Matthias Haenel 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi, I bought a brand new DWL-G520+ and want to run in on SuSE 9.3 64bit. Did anyone run this PCI-card with success? I realized it crashes if I try to configure it with yast. That means configuration runs properly but the activation procedure seems to be broken and my entire PC hangs. I YOU-updated my wireless packages and firmware. And I tried with DHCP and without with no success. Do you have any ideas? best regards Matthias

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Marvell GigE chip under SuSE 9.x
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 19 Jun '05

19 Jun '05

I've heard somewhere (may be here in our maillist, but I didn't find nothing in mail archive) about some problems w/Marvell Gigabit Ethernet chip on ASUS A8V mobos at work w/SuSE Linux 9.x. Sorry, is it simple my "imagination" ? It may be important for mobos choice, because Marvell chips are presenetd in a lot of mobos, in particlular in a set of Gigabyte mobos for Athlon64. Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow

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