January 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-amd64] Any success with Tyan Thunder K8W (s2885) ?
by Darrell Shively 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 20:45, John McCorquodale wrote: > [...] > I've got one going here and it's rock solid. AGP is a little sluggish, but > I'm working on that with Tyan and hope to send a success story/howto to the > SuSE list at some time soon. I have had SATA working briefly but am not > using the onboard at the moment (I have a 3ware 8506 SATA raid card > instead). Well, at least now I know it is possible. > My memory is 1GB ECC registered DDR333 directly from dallas memory, and > I've got 8GB installed with good results on my pair of 246s. Interesting: you are using 246's but DDR333 memory? I am using DDR400, which may be part of the problem. May I ask if there was any technical reason for going with the 333Mhz parts? > Note that you MUST be using the suse -156 or later 2.4.21 kernel on that > board or there are huge problems. Start with that if you're not there yet > and see how far that gets ya. A good suggestion. I just downloaded & upgraded but alas it made no difference. I am still suspicious of an incompatability between this motherboard and memory. A helpful soul in another forum posted this link which I found interesting: http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040112/index.html > Good luck! > > -mcq Thanks - think I need it - Darrell -- sused(a)mucus.com "Perfect! ....what am I doing?" -- Washu

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SiI 3114 S-ATA controller is doing progress
by Rainer Koenig 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

Hi, today I found a driver for the Silicon Image 3114 S-ATA controller that seems to work with SuSE 9.0 for AMD64. The driver can be downloaded from the Tyan site (unfortunatley not at the Silicon Image site), the URL is ftp://ftp.tyan.com/drivers_linux/Silicon_Image/3114/SuSE90AMD64RAIDDriver/ So far I tried out the following with my dual Opteron workstation: - Booting SuSE 9.0 for AMD64 from a parallel ATA harddisk. After modprobe scsi_mod and modprobe sii6514 I'm able to access the one S-ATA harddisk on channel 0 as /dev/sda. - Installing SuSE 9.0 on the S-ATA harddisk connected to channel 0. That requires a bit of extra work as described in the text files that come with the driver. And it means that you're forced to use LILO as the bootloader. The next steps I'm trying to do soon is getting 4 S-ATA disks and setting up a RAID with them to find out what the driver does. The bad news is still, that the driver is only available as binary, that means it will work with Kernel 2.4.21-102smp that comes with SuSE-Linux 9.0 for AMD64, but I expect serious problem when I want to upgrade to Kernel 2.6.1 for example. Anyway, I hope that helps a bit for the people with Tyan mainboards and S-ATA disks. :-) Best regards Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Fujitsu-Siemens VP BC E SW OS Phone: +49-821-804-3321 Fax: +49-821-804-2131

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Any success with Tyan Thunder K8W (s2885) ?
by Darrell Shively 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

Hi Folks: >From the archives I see that several people are using the Tyan Thunder K8W (s2885) motherboard. I am trying to do the same and not having much luck. Any reports of success would be very interesting to me. In particular, I would like to know what other hardware you are using - particularly the make/model/quantity of your RAM. Here is my current configuration: - Tyan s2885 MB - 1 AMD Opteron 246 CPU - 1 OCZ4001024ELERDC-K (512MB DDR400) - nVidia 5950 video - IBM {mumble} parallel ATA HD - some CDROM - PC Power & Cooling 510w power supply If I use mem=128m on the command line, things work pretty well. Otherwise, any memory intensive operations (like building a kernel or bunziping a large archive) will fail if tried repeatedly. Things also crash a lot. Memtest86 does report lots of errors. Many many errors in memory ranges above 128m. Mostly around the 256m and 511m boundary. I am currently running SUSE 9.0 for x86_64. This has been my first experience with SUSE - very pleasant to install and configure. Things that have been replaced: - Motherboard - Memory (different DIMMS from OCZ and also from Mushkin) - Processor (I've tried Opteron 240 & 246) - hard disk - Video (tried a non-AGP card) - Tried two other distributions (gentoo & RedHat) - Kernel (tried 2.6.0, 2.6.1 & 2.6.1-bk1) - ide cable - ide interface (tried a PCI IDE card) - The power supply was tested and appears to output nice clean juice I've tried more memory. Nothing I do seems to make this system work reliably. It is not very useful for it's intended application with only 128MB of the 2GB or RAM enabled. This is driving me crazy. It *almost* works so well. It's like having a Ferrari whose wheels fall off every block or two. If you read this entire post - thanks for your time. -- sused(a)mucus.com "Perfect! ....what am I doing?" -- Washu

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poweroff?
by Dmitry Melekhov 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

Hello! My system with kernel 2.6.0 can't poweroff compter during shutdown. It says "Power down" and this is all... Motherboard manufacturer is MSI (don't remember name) on VIA chipset. I thought that this is bios problem. But today I installed Windows 2003/AMD64 and it can do this.... Any ideas?

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SATA support on K8T Master2-FAR
by Milan Gabor 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

Hi! I read some posts about problems with SATA on K8T Master2-FAR from MSI. Since I am getting it today and have to install Linux on it with dual Opterom I still don't know if there will be installation possible on SATA disks. I am also gettign two 80 GB SATA disks, which should be in RAID1. Will this be possible or I have to install it on ATA disk? Are any other SATA controllers better supported than this one one the motherboard? What about some from promise: FastTrak S150 SX4 or from Adaptec: Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA I found some problems with long timeouts and IRQ timeouts under Linux with this one from Adaptec. Any other suggestions? MIlan

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Status of Serial ATA support
by Dave Reid 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

I'm rather amazed at the emails on this list that I found that helped explain why the SUSE 9.0 for AMD64 won't load, No Serial ATA Support for the VIA chipset (or any chipset for that matter). What a crushing appointment, I built this machine specfically to use SUSE 9.0 for AMD 64, and yes I bought modern hardware like a serial ATA drive. If Linux cannot support the current hardware generation it will continue to remain marginalized on the desktop bigtime. So when can I expect Serial ATA support (I will not go to last generation hardware) or did I just waste my money on this thing? So much for the easy installation, what a joke. Signed very frustrated with SUSE 9.0 for AMD 64

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RE: [suse-amd64] AMD Athlon 64 Linux hardware sanity check (not w ith SATA!)
by Hulslander, Ryan 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Mark - I hate to ask this - but did you happen "monkey test" it? (i.e. pull the power cable or SATA interface cable from the drive while it was hammering away on something)? How about replacing it with a blank drive and noting if on a reboot, the drive pair rebuilt themselves in sync properly? If so, then methinks ya just solved my dilemna! Thx! Ryan > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Horton [mailto:mark@nostromo.net] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:30 PM > To: Alan Gray > Cc: Hulslander, Ryan; suse-amd64(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] AMD Athlon 64 Linux hardware sanity > check (not w ith SATA!) > <snip> > The suse 9 install automatically recoginzed the 3ware sata > controller and loaded the proper driver. I bought the 3ware > because someone told me they had good linux support and so > far its performed without a problem. > > > I gave up on SATA(N) a while back because of all the woes > and went back to $C$I. > > If the 8506-4LP does work, I could use the xtra disk space. > > I have IDE, SATA and SCSI on the same system and it works > without a hitch. I have the OS on the IDE drive for > simplicity. The sata array is for bulk storage and the scsi > array is for the database. > > Mark > >

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Telnet Client in AMD64
by Carl Marshall 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Anyone help? Hardware: AMD Athlon 64 3200 on Gigabyte K8NPro Install v9 for AMD 64 with totally default settings, configure ppp dialup to remote site via ISDN modem. Telnet client connects but hangs after displaying "Escape Character ^]" Install v9 for i386 with exactly same default settings & ppp, and telnet client works fine. ? Carl Marshall

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general protection rip
by Eros Albertazzi 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

I am running a fortran compiled code (pw.x) on an Opteron machine running Suse 9 and I get a segmentation fault. What puzzled me is the following line in /var/log/messages: pw.x[18852] general protection rip:2a9581cbe5 rsp:7fbffff200 error:0 any clue on it meaning? Regards -- Eros Albertazzi CNR-IMM, Sez. Bologna Via P.Gobetti 101 I-40129 Bologna, Italy Tel:(+39)-051-639 9179 Fax:(+39)-051-639 9216

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RE: [suse-amd64] Instable kswapd / kernel oopses
by Bedard, Joe 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

-----Original Message----- From: Kees Hoekzema [mailto:kees@tweakers.net] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:58 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Instable kswapd / kernel oopses >A kinda nasty piece of work from.. kspwad! >What is wrong with kswapd? it crashes our server if we use 6G and slows down >our server to a crawl when using 4G (kernel option mem=4g). I am not seeing any crash problems with our AMD64 SLES servers but we are see very high, sustained kswapd CPU utilization and heavy swapping anytime there is disk I/O of any decent size. It causes the system to choke for a while, sometimes lasting about 30 seconds. I found that turning off the swap partitions (swapoff -a) relives the situation somewhat. (kswapd only hammers one of the CPU's for about 5 to 15 seconds intermittently during disk I/O)

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