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Re: [SLE] SuSE / Novell Patch System on 9.3
- From: "L. Mark Stone" <lmstone@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:39:44 -0400
- Message-id: <200505171139.44906.lmstone@xxxxxxxxx>
On Monday, May 16, 2005 06:27 pm, Jason Snyder wrote:
> Hi,
> I went out of my way to have hardware that plays well with previous
> releases of SuSE. Here is a listing:
>
> 1. M/B: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe (nForce2 based).
> 2. CPU: Athlon XP 3200.
> 3. RAM: 2x512 MB Corsiar XMS. (Tried Kingston Value RAM, but ran
> into problems with M/B insisting on too aggressive timings even after
> manually setting which destabilized the system.)
> 3. Video: GForce 6800 GT.
> 4. Sound: Primary - SB Live!, Secondary - SB 128, Unused - Onboard
> sound (broken, which seems to be common with this board).
> 5. Network: Primary - Onboard 10/100, Not used - Onboard Gigabit
> (SuSE 9.2 was fine with this one, but SuSE 9.3 couldn't handle it.)
> 6. TV Tuner - Hauppauge WinTV GO (SuSE 9.2 was fine with it, but SuSE
> 9.3 couldn't handle this one either.)
>
> I got SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2 to run stable on this system and I even
> got windows XP to run as stable as I have ever seen windows run
> (which is not saying all that much).
>
> Do you see anything readily wrong with this setup?
>
> > Don't doubt you're having problems, but I don't really think it is
> > the fault of the release per se. Maybe some combination of
> > hardware/whatever.
Try the following (we've seen this before with some Asus boards):
1. Make sure you have the latest BIOS, and follow the Asus procedure for
loading the Default BIOS settings after the first reboot, and then go
back in to configure the BIOS to your specs. Make sure you turn off in
the BIOS any of the hardware that you are not using.
2. In the BIOS, there is a global memory timing setting that Asus likes
to set at "Optimal" but which we have found should be set to "Normal"
unless you are running, say, CL2 memory sticks when the board specs
call for CL3. The loss to performance is minimal.
3. When installing SuSE (or when booting now), add the following to the
kernel parm line:
noapic apm=off acpi=off
Let us know how it goes...
Mark
--
_________________________________________________________
A Message From... L. Mark Stone
Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC
"We manage your network so you can manage your business."
477 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
Tel: (207) 772-5678
Web: http://www.rnome.com
> Hi,
> I went out of my way to have hardware that plays well with previous
> releases of SuSE. Here is a listing:
>
> 1. M/B: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe (nForce2 based).
> 2. CPU: Athlon XP 3200.
> 3. RAM: 2x512 MB Corsiar XMS. (Tried Kingston Value RAM, but ran
> into problems with M/B insisting on too aggressive timings even after
> manually setting which destabilized the system.)
> 3. Video: GForce 6800 GT.
> 4. Sound: Primary - SB Live!, Secondary - SB 128, Unused - Onboard
> sound (broken, which seems to be common with this board).
> 5. Network: Primary - Onboard 10/100, Not used - Onboard Gigabit
> (SuSE 9.2 was fine with this one, but SuSE 9.3 couldn't handle it.)
> 6. TV Tuner - Hauppauge WinTV GO (SuSE 9.2 was fine with it, but SuSE
> 9.3 couldn't handle this one either.)
>
> I got SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2 to run stable on this system and I even
> got windows XP to run as stable as I have ever seen windows run
> (which is not saying all that much).
>
> Do you see anything readily wrong with this setup?
>
> > Don't doubt you're having problems, but I don't really think it is
> > the fault of the release per se. Maybe some combination of
> > hardware/whatever.
Try the following (we've seen this before with some Asus boards):
1. Make sure you have the latest BIOS, and follow the Asus procedure for
loading the Default BIOS settings after the first reboot, and then go
back in to configure the BIOS to your specs. Make sure you turn off in
the BIOS any of the hardware that you are not using.
2. In the BIOS, there is a global memory timing setting that Asus likes
to set at "Optimal" but which we have found should be set to "Normal"
unless you are running, say, CL2 memory sticks when the board specs
call for CL3. The loss to performance is minimal.
3. When installing SuSE (or when booting now), add the following to the
kernel parm line:
noapic apm=off acpi=off
Let us know how it goes...
Mark
--
_________________________________________________________
A Message From... L. Mark Stone
Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC
"We manage your network so you can manage your business."
477 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
Tel: (207) 772-5678
Web: http://www.rnome.com
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