August 2003 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Tyan S2880 244 6GB
by Santiago Flores 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hello, I downloaded and installed Suse 8.2Beta. Straightforward install. No issues (other than having to turn off APIC - same for all other distros). The machine was up for about a week and a power problem required it to be shutdown. Now when I reboot the whole process hangs at the intialization of cpu #1. Any ideas? I booted with a rescue disk to checkout the disks and they were fine. I booted with a ClusterKnoppix CD that I had laying around and it worked fine, with both CPUs. Attached is the serial output of a boot with no APIC. Help please

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Re: [suse-amd64] Installing directly to SATA drive on Asus SK8N
by Martin Jungowski 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

No, you're trying the right thing. Have you tried not compiling the nvaudio driver at all and just make make install in the nvnet directory? That way you can avoid nvaudio and nvgart which ain't working anyway Martin On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 17:03, Phil Chapman wrote: > ok, > > I'd already tried -mathlon -m64 and the -march still causes a problem. > Taking out -mathlon gets past there but there are many compile errors. > > Looking in the mobo manual though, the LAN is described as a > > CK8 MAC+ Realtek RTL8201BL PHY > > Is this nvidia?? I'm not so sure, so we might be trying the wrong thing > anyway. > > Phil > > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Martin Jungowski wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Alright, I found the following in the GCC manual: > > > > -m64 > > Generate code for a 32-bit or 64-bit environment. The 32-bit > > environment sets int, long and pointer to 32 bits and generates > > code that runs on any i386 system. The 64-bit environment sets > > int to 32 bits and long and pointer to 64 bits and generates > > code for AMD's x86-64 architecture. > > > > First, simply try to add the -m64 parameter to the CFLAGS options and > > use "-march=athlon". If that doesn't work either, delete the -march > > parameter and use -m64 only. > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 16:25, Phil Chapman wrote: > > > hmmm, > > > > > > uname -m returns x86_64 > > > > > > uname -p returns unknown > > > > > > I changed the CFLAGS to be -march=x86_64 > > > > > > but it gets an unknown value for march when doing the make. > > > > > > tried -march=i686 and again it gets CPU does not cuppot x86_64 instruction > > > set?? > > > > > > Any more ideas?? > > > > > > How can I tell if I'm in 64-bit mode? > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Phil > > > > > > > > > >

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Re: [suse-amd64] Installing directly to SATA drive on Asus SK8N
by Martin Jungowski 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

Hey Phil, Whether the onBoard NIC is going to work or not depends on the revision of the mainboard. We got two of'em for testing and debugging, Rev. 1.02 is what I'm using right now and Rev 1.03 which another of our hardware testers is going to use starting next week (also getting a new AMD CPU :)). I've had no trouble activating it on 1.03, what drivers are you using? We got Beta drivers from nVidia which seem to work just fine, however I am not allowed to give that driver away and it's not yet available to public :( However I've had a very similar problem with 1.02: I's able to load the module and I was also able to ping my server and several websites. I was not able to ssh to my server or to load any of the websites in any webbrowser. No trouble whatsoever with 1.03, what Revision do you have? You should have 1.03 since 1.02 wasn't available to public either and is still a prototype. SuSE 8.2/AMD64 does not have the proper driver for the onBoard NIC yet, you'd have to use the nVidia driver. But first, could you be so kind and tell me what revision of the SK8N you have, 1.02 or 1.03? What version is your BIOS? Maybe there's something we can do about that onBoard NIC ;) Martin On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 00:47, Phil Chapman wrote: > Hi Martin, > > thanks for the tips. I've just installed it on an 80Gb WD. No problems > except for the network. Have you managed to get the on-board LAN working? > > It seemed to detect it during install, but then failed when doing it's > test connect :( > > Any ideas? At this stage I was just about to put in a different nic. > > It seems like a great board though!!! > > Thanks > > Phil > > > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Martin Jungowski wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > You're lucky cause I got that exact same mainboard & CPU and I've been > > running SuSE x86-64 for a couple of weeks now ;) > > There are Drivers available for this S-ATA controller but I haven't > > tested them yet: > > > > http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz > > > > It should be working though, give it a shot. However I'd suggest you > > install SuSE x86-64 on a P-ATA drive connected to the onBoard onChipset > > IDE-Controller. Don't forget to enable UDMA and 32-bit mode for the > > harddrive afterwards: > > > > hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hda > > > > Note that this will only work with the SuSE default kernel 2.4.19 but > > not with any other self compiled kernel yet. Apparantly, SuSE updated > > the IDE-driver in that specific kernel and those patches are not part of > > 2.6 yet. > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 20:20, Phil Chapman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > just subscribed to the list. I got an opteron 144 on an Asus SK8N mobo > > > this week with a 120Gb seagate SATA drive. > > > > > > Can SuSE 8.2 be installed directly to the drive ? I can't get it to > > > recognise it at all, but am not sure which drivers to use? Or should I > > > just install to a default IDE drive and use the SATA drive seperately? > > > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > > > Phil Chapman > > > > > >

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Installing directly to SATA drive on Asus SK8N
by Phil Chapman 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

Hi, just subscribed to the list. I got an opteron 144 on an Asus SK8N mobo this week with a 120Gb seagate SATA drive. Can SuSE 8.2 be installed directly to the drive ? I can't get it to recognise it at all, but am not sure which drivers to use? Or should I just install to a default IDE drive and use the SATA drive seperately? Thanks for any help Phil Chapman

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SK8N / nForce3 trouble
by Martin Jungowski 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

Hi, Marc Miller with AMD sent me here 'cause I'm one of the lucky owners of an AMD Opteron computer. I have an SK8N with nForce3 chipset and AMD Opteron 144 processor and I'm willing to do everything I can to help developing drivers and fixing problems with that platform ASAP, don't care whether it's SuSE or RedHat or Debian or whatever. Right now I'm having some UDMA trouble, I cannot set the DMA flag via hdparm in 32-bit legacy mode, running SuSE 8.2. I have no trouble at all activating it in SuSE 8.2 x86-64 for some reason. FYI, same issues with Debian and Kernel 2.4.21, 2.4.22, 2.6.0-test3 and 2.6.0-test4 but I can set the UDMA-flag using the Debian standard kernel-image 2.4.18-1-k7. I don't really understand what the problem is, I'd guess the chipset is not fully supported yet but that ain't no explanation why - it's running just fine in 64-bit mode with SuSE 8.2 x86-64 Beta - it's running just fine with Debian's kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7 I have not found a way to enable DMA in 32-bit mode in SuSE yet. I'm having some more trouble too but that's not SuSE related, so I'm not gonna bother you with that now, like the ECC trouble. Thanks for your help and please tell me if there's anything I can do to help developing and improving the 64-bit port. Martin

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Re: [suse-amd64] SK8N / nForce3 trouble
by Andi Kleen 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:44:57 +0200 Martin Jungowski <jungowsk(a)in.tum.de> wrote: > > And ACPI works for you? > > > It does not work with the standard kernel and in order to install SuSE > 8.2 (either i386 or x86-64), I have to disable ACPI, APIC and USB in > BIOS Setup and also I have to use "pci=noacpi" and "noapic". Same with Just acpi=off doesn't work? -Andi

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RE: [suse-amd64] SK8N / nForce3 trouble
by david.obrien＠amd.com 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

> > It does not work with the standard kernel and in order to install SuSE > > 8.2 (either i386 or x86-64), I have to disable ACPI, APIC and USB in > > BIOS Setup and also I have to use "pci=noacpi" and "noapic". Same with > > Just acpi=off doesn't work? Is there hope for a SLES8 kernel that does not require this?

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Failed to compile 10Gb module
by Dan 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Hi List, SuSE 8.2 beta runs fine until I tried to compile Intel 10Gb driver source on a dual Opteron server ;-(. Following errors occurred from "make install". Any suggestions? depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP/pcmcia-external/avm_cs.o depmod: b1pcmcia_addcard_b1 depmod: b1pcmcia_delcard depmod: b1pcmcia_addcard_m1 depmod: b1pcmcia_addcard_m2 depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP/pcmcia-external/avma1_cs.o I saw 2.5/2.6 kernel now has a newer Intel 10Gb driver support. When I tried to compile 2.5 kernel gcc gave me a bunch of errors in "make modules". Has anyone tried to run 2.5/2.6 with this beta SuSE? Thanks very much for your input. -Dan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Tyan S2880 244 6GB
by Santiago Flores 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Ok. It is booting now with IOMMU aperture at 2GB, APIC off (in bios) and mem=4G. The system now reports an incorrect amount of ram in /proc/meminfo: mojon:~ # cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 1899364352 238714880 1660649472 0 22364160 79704064 Swap: 4573167616 0 4573167616 MemTotal: 1854848 kB MemFree: 1621728 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 21840 kB Cached: 77836 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 53296 kB Inactive: 46472 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 1854848 kB LowFree: 1621728 kB SwapTotal: 4465984 kB SwapFree: 4465984 kB BigFree: 0 kB Ideas? Also, it was booting before with 6GB without passing anything to the command line. What could have changed/because of the power failure? Nothing comes to mind right away. Thanks for all of the help getting the system booting. Santiago

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Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2880 244 6GB
by Andi Kleen 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:11:37 -0700 "Santiago Flores" <santi(a)mleads.com> wrote: > > I did attempt to boot with mem=4G and got the attached output. Very > interesting. The MCE error points to some problem in the memory. try switching DIMMs around to other slots or replace them. You can turn it off with mce=off (that is what 32bit kernels do by default), but that would only hide the problem. > > I have upped my IOMMU to 2GB and am playing with APIC settings to see if I > can get it to boot. That's not a good idea. You will lose memory this way with 6GB. Keep it at 128-256MB. -Andi

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