September 2003 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SFTP not working
by Thorsten Wolf 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hello everyone. I got a Dual Opteron System yesterday. I installed the standard 8.2 SuSE without any problems (standard install with KDE) Today, I emptied the HDD and installed the 8.2 Beta9. I applied ONLY the Kernel Patch. OpenSSH connection works, but trying to open a SFTP connection fails. Sincerely, Thorsten Wolf

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Question on Mixing 32bit objects into 64bit programs
by Stephen Williams 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

This may be somewhat off topic (if so, please point me to the right list) but it is most certainly an AMD64 issue. Icarus Verilog (my Verilog simulator) is capable of dynamically loading third party PLI objects precompiled to be loaded by Cadence simulators (standard API) on Linux/i386 systems. I presume that a 32bit program running on an AMD64 can load these 32bit shared objects no problem. What I'm looking for is how to come up with a thunk or interface where my *64bit* program can load 32bit shared objects. This seems like an absurdity, but if there are hints or suggestions on how I might make it work, I'm listening. -- 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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Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan K8S >4GB
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

> CPU 0: aperture @ 1ee0000000 size 65536 KB > Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole > Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup > Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ c000000 Please enable the IOMMU in any case. Does that help? 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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Tyan K8S >4GB
by Santiago Flores 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hello all. I have now tested all of the memory in the system. It all appears to work. SUSE works fine with <=4GB of ram in the system. After that it always fails independent of APIC and IOMMU settings. However, when I attempt to reinstall SUSE again, the install boots and works fine with the 6GB in the system. Any ideas? I would rather not wipe it again. Thanks, Santiago (I have followed all of the 4Gb discussions for this board, the MSI board, and all of the other boards that have been posted to the list).

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RE: [suse-amd64] Problem installing 8.2 beta 9 on IBM e325
by Miller, Daniel J. 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Just in case you haven't tried it: Set Plug and Play OS to "No." Switch MPS 1.1 to 1.4 or (if it's already at 1.4) put it at 1.1 - some boards seem to like one and others, the other). I've seen both of the above cause the problem you describe during Linux installations (with all dual processor systems, not just Opterons). If that doesn't work, and you have a dual disk IDE based system (probably not, aren't all the IBM boxes SCSI?) you could try installing to hdb instead of hda. I had one system with dual IDE drives that came configured with a downloaded version of 8.2, that I decided to try to preserve (as an alternate boot - it was our first Opteron box and I was a bit nervous regarding the software). When the boxed version arrived and I re-installed, the boot record somehow got configured so it would only load off the secondary IDE device (hdb). You could try installing to hdb instead of hda. Maybe the same thing can happen with SCSI systems (I've not seen it) so you'd use sdb instead of sda. Or just do a full fdisk and format of all disks and start from scratch. Good luck with it and keep us posted, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Christophe Basaille [mailto:Jean-Christophe.Basaille@u-bourgogne.fr] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:21 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Problem installing 8.2 beta 9 on IBM e325 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 -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Anyone doing molecular computering
by James Eppich 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

We bought a dual opteron and run SuSE 8.2 beta 9. We have been trying to run software like Gaussian and scientific number crunching software like that. I'm not really a linux person but I have been working with other people on trying to get this software compiled. The other people have since left me hanging, saying they either dont have time or are just having trouble getting it to work. Has anyone had success on getting programs like these to work in x86-64 mode? (not IA-32/64 compiled) thanks, James

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NO MAC on S2880
by Mike D. Frenz 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Hello, we have some trouble with SuSE 8.2 Beta x86-64 Prof. Ed. on a TYAN Thunder K8S (S2880) BIOS 2.01 (newest): On installing there are two onboard Broadcom Gigabit NIS detected (BCM5704) but if the driver (bcm5700)is loaded :"cannot get MAC addr from NVRAM" is displayed and so eth0 and eth1 are FAILED. Also the DOS-Diskette-Tool 57udiag.exe from Broadcom give one error: "CPU-Test failed: register 5034 is 0xd", rest is PASSED. Perhaps a tool for 32bit non-Opteron systems?? Any clues? -- Mit freundlichsten Grüßen / With best regards ---- ________________________________________________________________ Mike D. Frenz (Dipl.-Phys.) Mail: MikeRoHard Computersysteme -Geschäftsleitung- Kärntner Weg 6 MikeRoHard Computersysteme D-79111 Freiburg High Performance Computing GERMANY Tel. +49 (0)761 - 888 66 50 mailto: mike.frenz(a)mikerohard.de Fax +49 (0)761 - 888 66 52 Website:http://www.mikerohard.de ________________________________________________________________

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Re: [suse-amd64] New kernels uploaded...
by Dan 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Thanks for your explanation. It's all working fine now. I consider they're the user errors :) --- Gerd Knorr <kraxel(a)bytesex.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:30:23AM -0700, Dan wrote: > > I agree with you about that. I got the errors > after > > I've upgraded modutils and initrd using the SuSE > rpms. > > Hmm, what errors? > > > The 2.6 kernel used is from kernel.org and was > > patched with the x86-64-specific patch. I have > > another system running SLES 2.6.0-test4 updated > > modutils using module-init-tools-0.9.14-pre2. > > The modutils update package from people/kraxel > contains > both old and new module tools and should work as-is > with > 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. No need to install > module-init-tools > manually. > > > Could this mean SuSE moutils and initrd not > working > > with 2.6 kernel from kernel.org? > > No. I'm also running vanilla kernel.org kernels > using suse > modutils rpms. > > Gerd > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] Re: NO MAC on S2880
by marc.miller＠amd.com 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

There was a problem with the DNS entries; the fix is propogating across the 'net now. Please try again. -----Original Message----- From: Dan [mailto:mizzou0@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:20 AM To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andreas Jaeger; Mike D. Frenz; suse-amd Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Re: NO MAC on S2880 I'll give -test5 a try. Good thing it can compile straight out for x86-64. Has anyone notice www.x86-64.org is down for a few days now? Google search doesn't show any x86-64 mirror sites. --- Andi Kleen <ak(a)suse.de> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:54:05AM -0700, Dan wrote: > > I've tried tg3 driver in 2.6 but it didn't find > either > > interface. :( > > Did you check 2.6.0-test5 (out since yesterday)? > > It has an updated tg3 driver that should work with > more chips. > > The tarball from kernel.org should compile out of > the box > for x86-64 > > -Andi > > -- > Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe > For additional commands, email: > suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] x86-64.org name server problems
by Miller, Daniel J. 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Curiously, something is sort of there at an alias (resolves to www.x86-64.org - which appears to be a codesourcery site): www.x8664.org Perhaps it's a previous hosting location for the site and DNS has been sent conflicting data? Dan -----Original Message----- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:28 PM To: Dan Cc: Andi Kleen; Andreas Jaeger; Mike D. Frenz; suse-amd; marc.miller(a)amd.com; anguiano(a)codesourcery.com Subject: [suse-amd64] x86-64.org name server problems On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:19:38AM -0700, Dan wrote: > I'll give -test5 a try. Good thing it can compile > straight out for x86-64. Has anyone notice > www.x86-64.org is down for a few days now? Google > search doesn't show any x86-64 mirror sites. They seem to have name server problems. From SuSE it is still resolvable, but from other ISPs the resolution also fails. Ricardo, any ideas what's happening? -Andi -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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