January 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

missing memory
by Eugene de Villiers 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hi all I am almost certain this is not a Suse issue, but I thought I might inquire just in case. As stated before, I have a Tyan K8W motherboard with 4Gb of DDR400 memory running Suse 9.0 AMD64 with the patch kernel. The BIOS registers 4Gb of memory, but the operating system only shows ~2.5 Gb of addressable memory (and starts swopping when it hits this limit). Any clue what is causing this? Since the Opteron memory controller is integral to the CPU, is this a fundamental problem with 244s or could it still be in the BIOS? Additionally, if I enable ECC in the BIOS I encounter unpredictable failures. How can this be? I thought Opterons ONLY work with registered ECC memory. Could BIOS settings be incompattible with the memory controller? Has anybody with a K8W updated to the 2885101i BIOS beta revision? Does it do any of the things it purports to fix: * Add DDR400 display support. * Add AMD Errata 86 fix * Open HT frequency options * Update CPU module to fix the CPU APIC Version error * Replace IORR with MTRR for AGP Aperture memory * Update Silicon Image Option ROM to version 5.0.31 (from tyan ) Thanks for your patience! Eugene PS. Thanks also to previous correspondents regarding the ATI driver issue (it doesnt yet exist for 64bit linux) _________________________________________________________________ Need info in a hurry? Use MSN Search! http://search.msn.co.za/

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Radeon 9600 and Tyan Thunder K8W
by Eugene de Villiers 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

As far as I know, this is supposed to work with little or no problems for AMD64bit. (i.e. Suse 9.0 supports the 9600 series) Currently I have the following system running: Thunder K8W + 2x 244's + 4Gb of DDR400 + Twin SATA HDDs Booted of the patch disk and everything is ran smoothly first time... except the graphics driver which does not give 3D support. Now before I go and flash the BIOS or start running diagnostics, is there something I am missing? Thanks, Eugene de Villiers _________________________________________________________________ Entertainment venues, star gossip and more - find it with MSN Search! http://search.msn.co.za/

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AW: [suse-amd64] YOU and PatchCD
by Khamenia, Valery 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Hi > This should be fixed as soon as all mirrors pick up the new path... > We unfortunatly gave it a wrong name :-( and by now, what should we enter in YOU? in particular: Server Name: ftp.suse.de ? Directory: ??? Authentication: ?? thanks. -- vak

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YOU and PatchCD
by David Pyke 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

I managed to install 9.0 with the new boot iso. However, I can't make YOU get updates as it thinks my system is SuSE Linux PatchCD. Since there's no update directory of that name, it can't find the directory.3 and aborts. How do I fix this? THanks Dave Pyke

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/proc/cpuinfo
by Chuck Gibke 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Just curious what other 64-bit AMD processors get in /proc/cpuinfo (like Opteron and FX): mine (plain old Athlon64) generates: model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ All inputs appreciated... ......Chuck

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Re: [suse-amd64] Successful installation on Shuttle SN85G4 using a SATA HD and the new ISO
by Andi Kleen 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:49:34 +0100 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004(a)gmx.net> wrote: > The nic timer interrupt programming been fixed since forcedeth 0.22 > although various testers have confirmed that disabling the timer interrupt > since 0.14 already fixed the storms for them. Thanks for the correction. I guess we'll still need to wait a bit for it to settle down, although it seems to look mostly good. > > If you want a SUSE kernel with forcedeth support, try either 2.6.x from > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel/ > or download forcedeth.o for k_athlon-2.4.21-166 from > http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/ Note the name of the list. A 32bit driver is unlikely to work. -Andi

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RE: [suse-amd64] suse 9 amd 64, gftp+kdvi problems
by Michael Mondragon 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

>However, some odd things began to pop up: gftp >(which I love) crashes. I tried to reinslall from the rpms >on the CDs of the non-64 bit version of suse 9.0, >which I also have. (I thought maybe the dvd disc was corrupted.) >It failed too. xftp crashes. (The text-based ftp however works.) >Another program I use a lot, kdvi (kde's dvi previewer for latex >documents), >also crashes:-(. I've recently been having problems wth kmail, >and had to switch over to mozilla. I'm not sure if that's related though. I've had similar problems, though I do not use these programs -- the only one I remember offhand was xscreensaver crashing [and taking X with it]. I know SUSE does not recommend this, but I fixed the problem in every case by downloading the source and recompiling. Also, switching to a 2.6.x kernel fixed a lot of strange crashes and kernel panics. If you're going to compile source yourself, you'll need to be aware of the following changes to the `./configure && make && make install` process: * run `./configure --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib64 --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64` * after this, edit ./libtook and add "/lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64" to sys_lib_search_path_spec and to sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec There is probably a way to do that last one automatically, but I've been too lazy to look for it ;) _m _________________________________________________________________ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://shopping.msn.com/softcontent/softcontent.aspx?scmId=1418

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Then new 193 kernel, compiling....
by Andrew Halliwell 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

I've just finished downloading the kernelsources for 193 to find them to be a package of 2.4.21 and lots of patches, rather than the usual kernel with patches applied. Now, I tried using the script suggested by the README.SuSE file... for p in $(./guards $(./arch-symbols)<series.conf); do patch -d /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/ -p1 < $p || break; done to apply the patches, but I did notice quite a lot of chunks flying past that weren't patching properly (by the looks of it). And on compile, when it gets to the mm section... lots of... In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include/linux/highmem.h:6, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include/linux/pagemap.h:16, from mmap.c:9: /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `pmd_populate': /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include/asm/pgalloc.h:21: warning: suggest parentheses around + or - inside shift type errors before finally... /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include/linux/highmem.h:72: warning: suggest parentheses around + or - inside shift mmap.c: In function `unmap_fixup': mmap.c:857: error: `ADDR_LIMIT_3GB' undeclared (first use in this function) mmap.c:857: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once mmap.c:857: error: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [mmap.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/mm' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/mm' make: *** [_dir_mm] Error 2 Is it me doing something wrong, or is there a problem with the patches in that rpmball?

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still problems with SIL-3114
by Khamenia, Valery 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Hi all, I was trying to install SUSE9 for AMD64 on tyan K8W board with SIL-3114 before recent ISO Patch. After unhappy attempt to use RAID1 there came reproducible terrible sounds from one of two HDDs (like if damaged HDD-head hits the clipper), then in order to get somehow into a RAID setup I've disconnected one HDD and get into RAID setup successfully. I've deleted RAID1 Set (having only one of two HDDs attached) and prooved that PC passes RAID report screen OK. Then I've found that I can't apply easily the same procedure for a second HDD, RAID Controller hangs badly and after several minutes of hanging i get into RAID1 setup and can't delete RAID1 Set from this HDD. Well, there's no bad sounds anymore after deleting RAID1 set just from first HDDs (BTW, interesting why?). So, I hope it is a problem of SIL-3114, and not the problem of HDD. Here I've found a new RAID BIOS for SIL-3114: http://12.24.47.40/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=10757 but there is no any instuction on how to write it... (I don't want to crash BIOS of my motherboard) any good links? have anyone tried this BIOS already? thanks a priori. kind regards, Valery A.Khamenya --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bioinformatics Department BioVisioN AG, Hannover

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Re: [discuss] Tyan removed Silicon Image 3114 driver for SuSE 9.0 AMD64 ???
by Andi Kleen 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:03:00 -0800 "David O'Brien" <obrien(a)FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:39:34PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Maybe it didn't work reliably. The latest 9.0 update kernel has a > > Silicon Image driver, please try it. > > What [simple] procedure can one use to install SL 9.0 on a Tyan Thunder > K8W that has only SATA drives? See http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-Jan/0200.html -Andi

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