July 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-amd64] PCI memory hole and remapping (was -> Re: [suse-amd64] Memory Problem: 3Gb instead of 4Gb, TYAN K8WE s2895, 2x252 Opteron )
by Langsdorf, Mark 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

> > If your BIOS is doing this (as opposed to > > you mucking with the settings), I need to get the AMD BIOS > > developers to talk to your BIOS developers. > > That would be great. Please do that. What's shown above is > indeed the mtrr settings that come from the bios. I didn't > change anything. And that's the same on two different PCs > (both iwth A8V), so it's not that just one PC is broken or > sth... However, whatever problems I was reporting to ASUS, I > never got anything helpful back, or a fix in the next release > etc. They seem to ignore user bug reports, but I guess they > won't ignore AMD... What motherboard, BIOS vendor, and BIOS version are you using? > > You may want to check if your BIOS has an option for "Discrete" or > > "continuous" usage of MTRRs. Experiment with both settings - I > > believe "discrete" should work better in a memory hoisting > > environmnet. > > Unfortunately not! I read about other mainboards having this > option in the bios and looked for it carefully, because other > people reported they could fix the problem with the fglrx > driver using this setting. Unfortunately, Asus didn't put > such a setting in their latest release... They're supposed to have done so, after a huge fuss we had over these issues last year. After you give me the motherboard models, BIOS vendor, and BIOS version I can hopefully get this resolved. -Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.

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apache+php 64 calling elf32 exe
by Riccardo Ghiglianovich 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Hi all, I am new here; I have found that if I call an ELF32 Executable program from a php page loaded by a 64 bit PHP module then I obtain a shared library error, even if the program does not require the library. practical example: compile this ====== pro.c #include <stdio.h> main() { printf("Hello world\n"); } ------ cc -o pro -m32 pro.c then call it from a php page: ========= r.phtml <?php $s = "/tmp/pro 2>/tmp/er 1>&2"; echo "$s : "; $rrr=exec($s); echo `cat /tmp/er`; echo "<hr>"; // just to test that it works... $s = "ls -al /tmp 2>/tmp/er 1>&2"; echo "$s : "; $rrr=exec($s); echo `cat /tmp/er`; ?> ---- http://localhost/r,phtml issuee? Error?Bug? my fault??? Hints? I cannot recompile at 64 all my programs ... Thanks, regards, Ric

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SK8N SUSE 9.3 problems
by Marcin Zalewski 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello, I am trying to install SUSE 9.3 on Asus SK8N motherboard running Opteron. I use the built-in Promise SATA controller with two disks in IDE mode. I was able to perfectly run SuSE 9.1 on this system for a long, long time. Now, with SuSE 9.3 I am not even able to get through the installation. It seems that the disk access causes the installation to hang sooner or later. When files are being copied the installation just freezes. It seems that this problem is not specific to SUSE. Any other distro with 2.6 kernel that I tried freezes in the same way as SUSE. Does anyone have a success story installing SUSE 9.3 on a similar setup? And also, is there some way that I can save kernel messages during installation? Thanks, Marcin Zalewski

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gcc with march=i686
by David Lazanja 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

When I try to compile a simple C program with -march=i686, I get the following error: cc1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set I have gcc-32bit installed. Any help appreciated. Thanks David -- # Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics # Columbia University

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xine on AMD64
by Alex 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hi I'm using SuSE professional 9.3 on a AMD64. To be able to watch DVD's, I compiled Xine from sources with the needed packages. Compiling xine-lib and xine-ui doesn't make any problems, but after launching xine, I have the foolowing error message: Cannot open display "*". Segmentation fault. After I changed the DISPLAY Variable to 127.0.0.1 and exported it, the first error message doesn't appear, but I get the segfault again. The interesting thing is that DVD's could be read in kaffeine without problems, so I think the problem is in xine-ui. Has anybody a hint?? Thanx Al

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screen config problem
by Colin Carter 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi, I posted this question a month ago but had to go to London and didn't resolve the issue, but I hope you will bare with me on this one. Over this last month I have been trying, but no solution. I have a new AMD64 laptop from TPG, but TPG are very secretive about the contents of the box and refuse to discuss Linux (though it makes no sense to sell a 64 bit machine with XP ! ) However, XP tells me that the screen resolution is 1280 x 800 at 60 Hz and the adapter is an SiS, model: 651_661FX_741_760_760GX_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M on PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 64 MB of the main RAM appears to be used for the video The problem is that 1. SuSE 9.1 install starts properly (full screen, good quality graphics with menus, edit boxes etc. 2. internet connects and tests correctly 3. downloads latest SuSE updates automatically 4. lots of software appears to be correctly installed 5. system reboots from hard disk 6. requests, and achieves, setup for root and for a user 7. system reboots and requests loggin 8. system then says that it cannot determine monitor characters, and asks if I want to configure manually? Note: up until this point the system has had zero problem with displaying windows, graphics etc. Something in the initial SuSE code "gets it right". 8.(cont) If I configure manually or not the system then jumps into some ridiculous mode of 0 x 0 pixels. Thus, it appears that the SuSE programmer requests the screen dimensions, and receives 0 x 0 and fails to check the values, and simply attempts to use 0 x 0, thereby sending the system into convoltions. I can only switch off the electricty at this point. When I try to reboot from the hard disc everything goes well until the system gets to the loggin screen whereby the screen promptly jumps into convoltions again. Booting with F2 setting the screen dimensions does not help. How can the initial part of the SuSE code get the screen perfectly correct while the latter part stuffs it up? Any ideas on how to interrupt the boot process and set the screen parameters? Any ideas on how to get SuSE to fix this bug? Regards, Colin

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Tyan K8S Pro ?
by Harald Milz 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, does someone have experience with SL (Pro or SLES) on the Thunder K8S Pro (S2882G3NR-D) (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro.html) together with an areca ARC-1160 (Intel IOP331 based) 16-port SATA RAID controller? Most of the components will work just fine, I just wonder about the on-board Sil3114 SATA and Intel IOP based RAID controllers. The manufacturer of the 16-port adapter claims Linux support (RH, SUSE) but which drivers are the correct ones? The Sil3314 should work with the sata_sil driver, right? When I installed my Asus A8V board I had to manually load libata and sata-via before firing up YaST during installation, I assume that's the same here. As for the ARC-1160, I have a certain idea after browsing the kernel source of my SL92 and SL93 machines (and googling all along, for sure). The machine in question will have all 16 disks attached to the 16-port controller, I can only assume that it should boot off this adapter too. The manufacturer seems to have drivers available on ftp://60.248.88.208/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/Suse-9.0-SLES-x86-64 and ../Suse-9.2-Professional-x86-64_Beta. Hmmm ... as it seems, the driver is _not_ contained in the standard kernel tree (as opposed to what the vendor says on http://www.areca.us/news/html/release_5_6_05.htm - "The Linux and FreeBSD driver have integrated in the kernel tree.") Which means my customer is tied to a specific kernel version, and loses the arcmsr driver on each YOU kernel update :-(( Hence, each kernel update would involve installing the most recent kernel source, integrating the arcmsr source code, modifying some source files, rebuilding and praying. SUSE: no support whatsoever. Andreas (Jaeger), any idea how we could help the customer in this case? Anyway - which distro should I be going for? SLES9 makes no sense IMHO because the machine is not certified hence no support in any case. SL92 is slightly more recent as far as the kernel, the rest is pretty much on the latest identical SUSE9-CORE level. Thanks for any hint! Ciao, hm -- Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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Ping ....
by William A. Mahaffey III 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

.... I haven't gotten anything from here in 3 days !!!! -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!!

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courier imap on amd64
by zio budda 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hi, I have a problem with courier-imap+courier-authlib+vpopmail. I have compiled: -- vpopmail-5.4.9 CFLAGS="-Os -fPIC -pipe" ./configure --enable-logging=p --enable-auth-module=mysql --disable-passwd --enable-clear-passwd --disable-many-domains --enable-auth-logging --enable-sql-logging --enable-valias --disable-mysql-limits --enable-libdir=/usr/lib64/mysql/ --enable-roaming-users -- courier-authlib-0.55 CFLAGS="-Os -fPIC -pipe" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --without-authmysql --disable-root-check --with-ssl --wit h-authchangepwdir=/usr/local/libexec/authlib -- courier-imap-4.0.2/ CFLAGS="-Os -fPIC -pipe" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --without-authmysql --disable-root-check --with-ssl --with-authchangepwdir=/usr/local/libexec/authlib All compiles and installations are ok. No error reported. But when I do : # telnet x.x.x.x 143 Trying x.x.x.x... Connected to x.x.x.x. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. a login michel(a)domain.com michel * BYE Temporary problem, please try again later and /var/log/mail.info: Jul 28 18:02:56 shrek authdaemond: /usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond: Symbol `read' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation Jul 28 18:02:56 shrek authdaemond: /usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond: Symbol `__errno_location' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation Jul 28 18:02:56 shrek authdaemond: /usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond: Symbol `__errno_location' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation Any help ? Tnx.

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Civilization CTP
by Roy F. cabaniss 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

I have it. It even said contact suse in the box it came in for tech support. Getting it to run on a amd64 though..... when i goto execute I get the following messages. ./civctp BUG! (Segmentation Fault) Going down hard... CivCTP Linux 1.1 Thu Jun 10 19:51:54 PDT 1999 Built with flags: -O2 -funroll-loops -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -g -D_REENTRANT -DPACK=__attribute__ ((packed)) -DCIV3_SPECIES=75 -D_BFR_ -malign-double -D_SDL_STATIC_LIB -DSTATICALLY_LINKED Built with glibc-2.1 Stack dump: { 0x804b5f0 0xffffe500 0x847136a 0x8470feb 0x8471484 0x83dcd16 0x8470feb 0x83dd024 0x83dccef 0x8048f48 0x818aed6 0x817f33b 0x817e8ea 0x81758b6 0x804dd2c 0x804e85a 0x804ef02 0x82219fc 0x822193f 0x804e560 0x804e766 0x804b8f7 0x84403bd 0x8048111 } Please send a full bug report, along with the contents of autosave to: support(a)lokigames.com Killed When I try it with linux32 first I get about the same message. ideas? BTW, the program will go through the intro screen. It is only when you click launch that it dies. And if you put an icon on the desktop for program initiation, it will gak your kde. Roy F. Cabaniss http://www.housedraco.org

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