Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (299 mails)

["Eugene de Villiers" <edevilliers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I am almost certain this is not a Suse issue, but I thought I might inquire 
just in case.

As stated before, I have a Tyan K8W motherboard with 4Gb of DDR400 memory 
running Suse 9.0 AMD64 with the patch kernel.

The BIOS registers 4Gb of memory, but the operating system only shows ~2.5 
Gb of addressable memory (and starts swopping when it hits this limit). Any 
clue what is causing this?

Since the Opteron memory controller is integral to the CPU, is this a 
fundamental problem with 244s or could it still be in the BIOS?

Additionally, if I enable ECC in the BIOS I encounter unpredictable 
failures. How can this be? I thought Opterons ONLY work with registered ECC 
memory. Could BIOS settings be incompattible with the memory controller?

Has anybody with a K8W updated to the 2885101i BIOS beta revision? Does it 
do any of the things it purports to fix:
* Add DDR400 display support.
* Add AMD Errata 86 fix
* Open HT frequency options
* Update CPU module to fix the CPU APIC Version error
* Replace IORR with MTRR for AGP Aperture memory
* Update Silicon Image Option ROM to version 5.0.31
(from tyan )


Thanks for your patience!

Eugene

PS. Thanks also to previous correspondents regarding the ATI driver issue 
(it doesnt yet exist for 64bit linux)

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