November 2003 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Broken multicast on SuSE9 AMD64
by Kelly Burkhart 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

I have installed SuSE9 AMD64 on a dual Opteron system: <http://www.appro.com/product/server_1122h_2.asp> I had no problems at all with installation and everything is running as I would expect with one exception: I am unable to recieve multicast datagrams sent from another machine on our network. I am able to send and receive from two programs on the same machine. I am able to send from AMD64 to another machine, but I am unable to receive datagrams sent from any other machine. (BTW, one of the other machines is the same hardware running SuSE 9 32bit). I upgraded from the tg3 network module to the bcm5700 module downloaded from broadcom with no effect. I upgraded to the k_smp-2.4.21-143 from <ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/Kernel-AMD64> with no effect. I'm able to reproduce the problem with my own code as well as a couple of very simple java programs I found here: <http://www.linuxsocket.org/books/Sockets/programs/> Grab SimpleMulticastDestination.java and SimpleMulticastSource.java. These programs use the MC group 224.0.0.1 which works, but others (236.0.0.1 for instance) do not. Has anyone else noticed this behavior or heard of multicast or IGMP problems on this platform? Kelly Burkhart

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problem with adaptec 3200s
by elfed lewis 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hello there, im having some difficulty with installing my suse9pro 64 bit edition on my dual opteron. Im using a tyan thunder k8s, and 2 opteron 240's. Im also using an adaptec 3200s, which seems to be causing the problem. When i boot into the installation program, the thing hangs on "loading kernel modules for hard disk controllers". So I booted into the manual installation, and tried to manually load the dpt_i20 driver. When i load it, i get a kernel panic with the message "unable to handle kernel paging request at address 'xxxxxx'". Then it continues to spew out code of some sort, then says "kernel panic, killing interrupt handler", and then "In interupt handler - not syncing". Then it does nothing, just hangs. Ive tried the usual scsi things that i normally do, eg "acpi=off" etc. But i cant find anything on this error in the usual places (this mailing list, the net)". The wierd thing is, if I load the same driver under 9.0 (not 64 bit version i mean) it works fine, detects my disks etc. So something in the v9-64 is broken! Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Elf.

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SCSI RAID controller 2120S support on 9.0?
by Derek Liu 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hello, as an owner of the Tyan S2882UNGR motherboard with the Adaptec 7920 chipset equipped with the 2120S zero channel RAID adaptor. I've noticed that none of the current AMD64 Linux packages from any distro seem to support the adapter including SUSE Enterprise server 8.2 beta9. (while the 32bit version recognized it no problem) I would love to purchase version 9.0 of the Enterprise server if it does support the SCSI raid adaptor. Had anyone tested this controller with version 9? Thank you for your time. I haven't done any testing myself, but according to a friend of mine, their experiences working with MySQL under Opteron is that the 64 bit version yeilds about 30% to 40% performance increase. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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Creating PIC code from .asm under x86_64
by Mike Phillips 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Hi all, In my never ending quest to make my life as complicated as possible I'm in the process of converting code over to the x86_64 platform (and I'll even make rpm's if I can get this all to work) I've just converted all the assembly files for xvidcore over to x86_64/yasm format. All these file compile fine once adjusted for 64 bit. The problem is trying to create a shared library from the .o files. The same source under i386 just links into shared libs fine, but with x86_64 ld complains: > cpuid.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared > object; recompile with -fPIC Of course recompiling with -fPIC isn't an option as cpuid.o is built from cpuid.asm. Is there an easy solution for this or am I looking at adding GOT references to the code and manually figuring out the relative locations ? Thanks Mike

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suse 9.0 download?
by ab＠u1.com 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Hello, I am interested in trying out suse 9.0 (AMD64), and have been waiting for it to appear on the ftp.suse.com FTP site. The package seems to be available for retail now, but it is still not on the FTP site. Is it going to be made available? Doesn't the linux license require the product to be made available for free if desired? Please advise. Thanks.

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gnat Ada compiler
by Legg, David 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

We installed the 8.2 beta9 for AMD64 on our Dual Opteron box and tried compiling a very simple multi-task Ada program using gnatmake. When the program executed, it said: "failed run-time assertion : Tasking not implemented on this configuration" It would be useful for the RPM to configure the compiler and run-time libraries so that multi-task Ada programs running natively on AMD64 use the available SMP support in the kernel. As it is, programs with tasks in do not execute at all. Has this been fixed in the latest SuSE AMD64? Regards, David Legg

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Getting Suse 9 for AMD64
by Doug Diehnelt 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Anybody know where I can buy a copy of above other than the SUSE web store? I ordered a copy close to two weeks ago and the only response I can get back from SUSE is that they don't know when they are going to get anymore in. TIA Doug Diehnelt

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RE: [suse-amd64] Getting Suse 9 for AMD64
by Miller, Daniel J. 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Their list of resellers is here: http://www.suse.com/us/company/suse/retailers/index.html But none seem to have Professional Edition for AMD64, yet. You could try calling Amazon, Linux Central, etc. and see if any of them are getting boxed product soon (or already have but haven't updated their web sites). Dan -----Original Message----- From: Doug Diehnelt [mailto:dougdieh@nationwide.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:13 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Getting Suse 9 for AMD64 Anybody know where I can buy a copy of above other than the SUSE web store? I ordered a copy close to two weeks ago and the only response I can get back from SUSE is that they don't know when they are going to get anymore in. TIA Doug Diehnelt -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] Getting Suse 9 for AMD64
by marc.miller＠amd.com 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Amazon.com, and it's available in the U.S. now (as of just under 2 weeks ago, I believe). -----Original Message----- From: Doug Diehnelt [mailto:dougdieh@nationwide.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:13 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Getting Suse 9 for AMD64 Anybody know where I can buy a copy of above other than the SUSE web store? I ordered a copy close to two weeks ago and the only response I can get back from SUSE is that they don't know when they are going to get anymore in. TIA Doug Diehnelt -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Suse 9.0 Pro AMD 64 - Athon64 vs. Opteron
by Holger Froening 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Hello, is it possible to use the Suse 9.0 Pro AMD64 with Opterons or are there any problems? On the Suse website only the Athlon64 is mentioned, not the Opteron. Generally, what is the difference between the Pro and the SLES version? And last, does anybody know when the SLES9 is about to come? And very last, a freaky question: Does anybody uses the 64bit Suse together with NIS+? Should I expect problems? (I know, I always have to expect problems with NIS+ :-) ) Thanks a lot, Holger -- Holger Fröning (mailto:holger@ra.ti.uni-mannheim.de) University of Mannheim - Computer Architecture Group URL: http://ra.ti.uni-mannheim.de -------------------------------------------------------

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