I am sure this is a SuSE yast2 newbie problem. But I have read and re-read the SLES 8 for AMD64 installation manual, The SuSE 9.0 installation manual and I have Googled for hours already. Help is appreciated. The specific problem is with Apache2, but I believe I should be using yast2 for all of my RPM installs, if I understand correctly. I downloaded the Apache2 rpms for SuSE 9.0 AMD64 from SuSE'S ftp site, expecting/hoping to be able to install them on my SLES 8 for AMD64 server. Here they are: apache2-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm apache2-devel-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm apache2-doc-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm apache2-example-pages-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm apache2-jakarta-tomcat-connectors-4.1.27-132.x86_64.rpm apache2-metuxmpm-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm apache2-mod_auth_mysql-20030510-99.x86_64.rpm apache2-mod_fastcgi-2.4.0-132.x86_64.rpm apache2-mod_macro-1.1.4-95.x86_64.rpm apache2-mod_perl-1.99_09_20030807-89.x86_64.rpm apache2-mod_php4-4.3.3-101.x86_64.rpm apache2-mod_python-3.0.3-131.x86_64.rpm apache2-mod_ruby-1.1.1-92.x86_64.rpm apache2-prefork-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm apache2-worker-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm Well of course I'm running into dependency problems. So I figure I would use yast2's "Install or Remove Software" option. So the first task was setting to use the "Change Source of Installation" to point at the the right directory - in my case /opt/software/apache2. Well when I try and add a "local directory" installation source it tells me: Error - Unable to create installation source from URL 'dir:///opt/software/apache2/'. Details: ERROR(InstSrc: E_non_instsrc_on_media) Is there some reasonably straightforward organization that the source directory needs to be in? I've tried using "yast2 -i apache2-2.0.48-24.x86_64.rpm". It installs the package with no complaints. I run an 'rpm -qa | egrep "apache2"' and it appears installed fine. But when I start up yast2 Install GUI for something else, it shows me all kinds of dependency problems. I was trying to stay with the RPM's rather than just untarring a distribution from Apache.org, but I'm starting to wonder. Thank you very much - Richard

Andi, Thank you for the advice. This is the start of a new web set of web servers we are rolling out over the next six months. I was hoping to start clean with Apache 2, but maybe not. So, I suppose this applies also to binary file from Apache Foundation httpd-2.0.48-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz found at: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/linux/ ?? Also, what type of things might need to be fixed if I compiled from source? Thank you again - Richard -----Original Message----- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:39 PM To: Richard Mixon (qwest) Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Help Installing SuSE 9 AMD64 Apache2 rpms with yast2 on SLES 8 AMD64 On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:52:52 -0700 "Richard Mixon (qwest)" wrote:

I am sure this is a SuSE yast2 newbie problem. But I have read and re-read the SLES 8 for AMD64 installation manual, The SuSE 9.0 installation manual and I have Googled for hours already. Help is appreciated.

The specific problem is with Apache2, but I believe I should be using yast2 for all of my RPM installs, if I understand correctly.

I downloaded the Apache2 rpms for SuSE 9.0 AMD64 from SuSE'S ftp site, expecting/hoping to be able to install them on my SLES 8

for You cannot directly install 9.0 RPMS on SLES8. The 9.0 RPMS require a newer glibc. Updating glibc is not trivial and has some traps. In addition apache has lots of references to other packages, so if you fulfilled all dependencies you would end up with half of the 9.0 in your SLES8 and likely quite some breakage. The better way probably would be to recompile the source rpm on SLES8. Even with that you will likely need to fix quite a few things by hand. -Andi -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com

I have several workstations running with the Nvidia driver. There were several problems early on.... Check /var/log/boot.msg to make sure that the kernel sees the AGP device... <6>Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann <6>agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 5944M <6>agpgart: Detected AMD 8151 chipset <6>agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 <6>PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log for the following line... (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to verify AGP usage This line indicates that the Nvidia driver could not recognize the AGP tunnel, so it runs via the PCI interface (SLOW :) The line should look like this... (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 8X successfully initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1600x1200,1600x1200" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized Make sure that you are running a current kernel. There were issues with AGP in the 2.4.21.102 kernel that you get if you run right out ot the box. I am running the 2.4.21-193 kernel, and am testing the current 2.4.21-201 kernel on a machine now. It seems to be working fine. Check for an updated BIOS for your motherboard. I have systems running the TYAN S2885 dual cpu motherboard with the v102 BIOS that work. On the single processor S2875 motherboard, the BIOS that was on the web site did not work with AGP on AMD64 Linux. I have a beta BIOS that seems to fix the problem. I don't have any experience with the MSI board, so not sure if that is your problem or not.... Kevin Gassiot Advanced Systems Group Visualization Systems Support Veritas DGC 10300 Town Park Dr. Houston, Texas 77072 832-351-8978 kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com Jeroen Leijen To 04/01/2004 01:04 suse-amd64@suse.com PM cc Subject [suse-amd64] Solved Re: [suse-amd64] Nvidia AMD64 1.0-5332 trouble Thanks everyone for your help. After all I managed to get X working. Hurray! Allthough I am not sure if it's running properly. See 2 questions below. At first X didn't run neither with the XFree open source driver nor with the drivers supplied by Nvidia. I think I finally got it running after I ajusted the AGP settings in XF86Config: Section "Device" BoardName "0x0322" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "nvidia" Option "NvAgp" "1" EndSection "NvAgp" "1" did the trick. So my system is using the Nvidia AGP module. I don't understand why X doesn't run when using the regular kernel module AGPGART (i.e. Option "NvAgp" "3", the default setting). Running linux:/home/jeroen # dmesg | grep agp gives: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M agpgart: Detected AMD On-CPU GART chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000 Running linux:/home/jeroen # lsmod | grep agp gives nothing. 1. Has anyone X running with agpgart using the system setup described below? 2. Benchmark exchange: jeroen@linux:~> glxgears 7695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1539.000 FPS 8951 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1790.200 FPS Thanks Jeroen from Amsterdam On Monday 01 March 2004 23:48, Jeroen Leijen wrote:

Has anyone got X running using the Nvidia AMD64 1.0-5332 drivers?

I compiled and installed the drivers according the instructions as supplied by nvidia. On my system (suse 9.0, k_deflt 2.4.21.201.x86_64, msi k8t neo fisr, athlon 64 3000, msi geforce fx5200) sax2 shows only a blank screen.

Thanks Jeroen Amsterdam

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