September 2003 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-amd64] Xvnc broken?
by Miller, Daniel J. 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Just in case it wasn't clear. Vncserver works very well with 8.2 SuSE EL for AMD64. We've been using it for remote administration of production servers for months. Note that, if the default denial of remote login of root is set (as it should be), Xvnc will segfault if you try to invoke it as root. You must PuTTY or telnet into the server and start vncserver as a non-root user. Each user must start their own Xvnc process with vncserver. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Fent [mailto:sf@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:30 AM To: ab(a)u1.com Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Xvnc broken? * ab(a)u1.com <ab(a)u1.com> [030923 14:23]: > Hello, > > I am not able to get vncserver or Xvnc working under > beta 9. Xvnc exits with a segmentation violation. > > Config: single 242 cpu, 512 mb ram, K8D Master mb. > > Is it working for anyone else? No, it's not. But it will be working in the next distribution. But it should be possible to use the 32bit (i386)-package. (I never tested that with 8.2) > > Thanks, > Sheb > > > > -- > Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe > For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com > -- Stefan Fent SUSE LINUX AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N\374rnberg -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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uml-install-suse broken under amd64?
by ab＠u1.com 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hello, I am running SUSE 8.2 beta9 x86-64 with a single opteron 242 and 512mb of ram. I am interested in using this as a host machine for running multiple UML (user mode linux) virtual machines. When I run /usr/bin/uml-install-suse to create a root fs (using the 32 bit release of suse 8.2 as the source media) it creates a root file system that crashes when I try to run it under user mode linux. Before I go into a lot of detail I'd just like to ask if anyone else out there has used uml-install-suse under x86-64 successfully or not. Once this is working I will be interested to see if it possible to run a *64* bit version of the kernel under UML, but for now I am trying to keep it simple. NOTE: UML *does* seem to work ok under x86-64 host for the standard downloadable filesystem from the UML site. It is just the file system created by uml-install-suse under x86-64 that seems to have problems. Regards, Sheb

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Chipset support of SuSE8.2-x86-64-Beta9
by Marco Maske 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hello together, I'am Newbie and very interesting of SuSE x86-64 and want built a PC with the AMD Opteron CPU. I've read there some Problems with the Asus-SK8N with Nvidia chipset. I've no problems to install SuSE8.x on x86-32bit or compile some apps. But compile a Kernel is to difficult for me in the moment. I don't need the Promise-SATA-Raid chip but need Adaptec2940-SCSI card for HD and CD-Rom, the Realtec-Lan and ALC-Soundchip. I want use xfree, KDE, Gimp, Ooffice and Sound with alsa. Have I a chance to get this "out of box" with the 8.2beta? Or is the Tyan-ThunderK8W (1 CPU fist and <4GBRam) with the AMD8131 chipset the bether choise, means bether support and easier to install? Maybe Andreas J. knows: Is there a Date when the SuSE8.3amd-x86 is ready to buy? Becomes the Price nearly how the SuSE8.x Pro (ca. 100$ or Eur)? -- Ciao Marco, registered GNU/Linux-User#313353

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64-bit cluster system
by Wheeler, Dr M.D. 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Does anyone have any experience of implementing the 8.2 beta version on a small opteron cluster system (3 dual cpu slave nodes + 1 single cpu master node). We are putting together a system at present and would like to hear from other users for any useful advice. Thanks in advance, Martyn ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Martyn D. Wheeler Department of Chemistry University of Leicester University Road Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK. Tel (office): +44 (0)116 252 3985 Tel (lab): +44 (0)116 252 2115 Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3789 Email: martyn.wheeler(a)le.ac.uk http://www.le.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/mdw10.html

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anyone have a working g03.make file
by James Eppich 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

I have tried to build this but I really dont know enough to debug it. I get about 100,000 lines into the make.log and then it dies, even using the i386.make or modifying this for the 64 bit libs. mostly has to do with util.so or dummy.o. can anyone send me a working make file for a Dual Opteron?

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Re: [suse-amd64] HDAMB System vs. k_smp-2.4.19-256
by Stephen Williams 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

Vojtech Pavlik vojtech-at-suse.cz |suse-amd64| wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:57:24AM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote: > >>Andi Kleen ak-at-suse.de |suse-amd64| wrote: >> >>>On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:00:57PM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I'm having further problems with booting any kernel other then >>>>the k_smp_2.5.19-191 that I am currently running. My system is >>>>a dual Opteron 244 in a HDAMB system board (Rhapsody?) with a >>>>mere 1Gig of ram. I have SCSI hard drive, and an IDE CDROM and >>>>ZIP drive. The AGP video card is a GeForce4 MX440. >>> >>> >>>Does it work when you boot with numa=off ? >>> >>>-Andi >>> >> >>No different. >> >>I installed the rpm, rebooted, and at the grub prompt added >>numa=off, exact same symptoms. I also tried vga=0 to see if >>I can see more, and again no difference. After the ACPI messages, >> >> ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] >> ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF] >> ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1) >> ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1) >> >>it stops. With vga=778, it prints also that it is switching to >>colour frame buffer device befor stopping. I can send you the >>boot.msg log from a successful boot of the -191 kernel, if you >>are interested. > > > Have you tried 'acpi=off'? > Not by itself, but using the failsafe grub selection: kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/sda3 ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal iommu=noforce maxcpus=0 3 I see on closer inspection that this selection tries the "shipped" kernel. Arg! OK, I'll do another cycle a little later today. It is interesting that after installing the k_smp rpm, even the "shipped" kernel doesn't work. This is apparently because the RPM install replaces the modules without saving them. I think you need to include the rpm number in the modules directory name if you want this feature to work. P.S. Where does YaST2 leave these rpms that it downloads? I'm tired of downloading that rpm via yast. I can't find that rpm on any other SuSE download directories, either. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."

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New kernels uploaded for testing
by Andreas Jaeger 20 Sep '03

20 Sep '03

I've uploaded to ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/Kernel-AMD64 some *experimental* kernels. Those contain a number of fixes for ACPI issues that we encountered with various desktop boards. I hope these work everywhere and fix the problems we had with Nvidia NForce3 based boards and with VIA boards. Testers are welcome - and please report any problems (or success if you had problems before). Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Rewritten IDE-Driver for nForce3
by Martin Jungowski 20 Sep '03

20 Sep '03

Hi, it may be of interest to some of you, that I have rewritten the 2.4.21 IDE-driver so one can set the DMA-flag on nForce3-based mainboards. Initially provided by SuSE as a patch, it did not work with the 2.4.21 kernel from kernel.org... but what are geeks for, hu? ;) I can not guarantee anything but so far, it's been working just fine on my SK8N mainboard and I haven't had any trouble yet. Transfer rates skyrocketed up from ~4MB/s to ~42MB/s and CPU-load is less than 2%. Feel free to use the files, given that I have NO idea how to make a patch-file I just provided the modified files and an Readme, changelog is going to follow tonight. The archive comes with an INSTALL document, just follow the instructions, recompile your 2.4.21 kernel and you're good to go. I don't know whether this is also going to work with 2.4.22, haven't tried that yet, feel free to do so. Feedback is greatly appreciated Martin Jungowski The file can also be downloaded here: http://home.in.tum.de/~jungowsk/idedriver/idedriver.tar.bz2

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Problem installing 8.2 beta 9 on IBM e325
by Jean-Christophe Basaille 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hi, we recently got an Ibm eserver 325 with two Amd 242 and 2 GB ram (4x512MB in recommended slots according to the documentation) for testing purposes, and tried to install 8.2 beta 9. We face the same problem that was exposed on the list some time ago (Aug 1st) : After having read the 1st CD, the system tries to reboot, before reading other CDs. But the machine never goes so far. We end with an empty screen just after 'Loading linux.............' (lilo display). We tried too with failsafe, and end with the same message : Starting kswapd bigpage subsystem: allocated 0 bigpages (=0MB) Same thing with grub. Does anybody encountered the same problem, or have an idea about what is going on ? Thanks in advance. -- Jean-Christophe Basaille Université de Bourgogne, Centre de Calcul, Dijon, France Tel: +33 3 80 39 52 05 / Fax: +33 3 80 39 52 69

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Strange "hickups"
by Peter Eriksson 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

I'm doing some benchmarking on a dual 1.8GHz Opteron system with 4GB of RAM running SuSE 8.2 Pro BETA 9 - and mostly it looks nice, except for the occasional strange hickups. For example, I compiled the standard LINPACK Fortran benchmark program. If I run the same program twice in a row then I sometimes see a *long* delay in running time. A run with "time" shows that the delay is not in "user" time but in system: [1] opteria:~/src/linpack> time out/opteria/linpack.g77 ... xtimes are reported for matrices of order 1000 factor solve total mflops unit ratio times for array with leading dimension of1001 2.450E+00 0.000E+00 2.450E+00 2.729E+02 7.328E-03 4.375E+01 end of tests -- this version dated 10/12/92 2.520u 0.020s 0:02.53 100.3% 0+0k 0+0io 158pf+0w ---> Ca 273 MFLOPS. [0] opteria:~/src/linpack> time out/opteria/linpack.g77 Please send the results of this run to: ... xtimes are reported for matrices of order 1000 factor solve total mflops unit ratio times for array with leading dimension of1001 2.697E+01 8.000E-02 2.705E+01 2.472E+01 8.091E-02 4.830E+02 end of tests -- this version dated 10/12/92 2.680u 25.370s 0:28.04 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 158pf+0w ---> Ca 25 MFLOPS, and a whopping 25.37 seconds spent in system-space. Any suggestions as to why I'm seeing these delays? The machine is more or less idling... [0] opteria:~/src/linpack> uname -a Linux opteria 2.4.21-60-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 2 11:34:54 UTC 2003 x86_64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux I've tried the NUMA kernel, but it doesn't make any difference. -- Peter Eriksson <peter(a)ifm.liu.se> Phone: +46 13 28 2786 Computer Systems Manager/BOFH Cell/GSM: +46 705 18 2786 Physics Department, Linköping University Room: Building F, F203 SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden http://www.ifm.liu.se/~peter

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