October 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

DSL Modem
by Anirban Biswas 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hi I have a compaq 3240US laptop.I am running SuSe 9.1 64 bit on it. I am palning to get DSL connection so what modem should I buy so that I work. I am little bit disaapointed with my laptop since , modem , cardreader & the WiFi is not working. So at least DSL should work for me since then I can upgrade my system & hope that some of the device will work. Also I am having probel to dual boot XP. Generally in my desktop box I chain load XP even when it is on hda2. But in my laptop it is in hda1 but still can not chain load XP. TIA Anirban Biswas. -- If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah.

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ISA DMA on amd64.
by Oleg Gusev 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

What is the (approved) right way to handle DMA for the IRDA, cardreaders, BIOS, etc. since the ISA bus is not supported ? Oleg.

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GRUB loader will not start after bios upgrade
by Moritz Kürten 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hello, I upgraded my Gigabyte K8VT800 Pro board to F10 bios. But with the F10 bios the GRUB Linux boot loader will not start. The GRUB version is 0.94. GRUB only loads a consol with GRUB> where I can type some commands. I would like to use the F10 bios because of C'n'Q is automaticaly enabled e.g. when I'm in bios the CPU vcore is only 1.1V. Any ideas? Thanks, Moritz

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krusader compile
by George Xylouris 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hi I have tried to compile krusader 1.4 file manager in SuSE 9.1 from source. but i always get the follwing message: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021)) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! However the QT library is installed .. I also followed the INSTALL documentation and i have the following echo $QTDIR /usr/lib/qt3 echo $KDEDIR /opt and i configure with the following command /configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3 --with-qt-includes=/usr/lib/qt3/include --with-qt-libs=/usr/lib/qt3/lib Any Ideas???? Thanx GX

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cannot open shared object file
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I'm trying to get a 32bit application running (multi-gnome-terminal) using a generic binary tarball (I can't get it to build from source on my machine). However, I'm having problems with the shared libraries. The program installs fine, but when I run it I get:- multi-gnome-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libglade-gnome.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've tried putting links to /opt/gnome/lib/libglade-gnome.so.0 in various places, but to no avail - I guess I don't really know what I'm doing :) I'd be grateful for some pointers. Thanks, - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

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SLES9 Installation mit Floppy
by Rainer Koenig 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Folgendes fragt ein Kunde von uns: >>die Installation von SLES 9 auf den dual-Knoten funktioniert soweit >>einwandfrei; >>da 2 der Tyan's kein cdrom Laufwerk haben wuerde ich gerne die Installation >>per Boot-Diskette/Netzwerk versuchen; das Problem ist nur dass ich die .IMG >>Dateien fuer die Boot-Disketten nicht finden kann; laut Dokumentation >>muessten sich diese auf der ersten CD in /boot befinden, wo ich sie jedoch >>nicht finden kann. >>Wo kann man diese Disketten erhalten? Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, Boot-Disketten für x86_64 zu erzeugen oder die notwendigen Dateien notfalls auf einen Memory-Stick zu packen und die Installation von diesem zu booten? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Rainer König -- 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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asus K8N nForce3 250 on amd 64
by Coletta, Jason D 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

HI, Has anyone had success in getting an asus K8N nForce3 250 on amd 64? Thanks, Jason

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Re: Firefox and DISPLAY (was: Next SuSE 9.2 and AMD64 laptop)
by mmarion＠qualcomm.com 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

On 13 Oct, Reiner Steib wrote: > With DISPLAY is set to ":0.0", I got the errors (not reproducible; I > think it mostly happened after installing a Firefox extension during > the previous session), but with `DISPLAY="hostname:0.0" firefox' it > worked. Ah.. I'll try that too, haven't had a chance to even touch that computer in days. Sounds like a bug in firefox itself then too. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Well, what else is important to them? As far as stimulants go, both of our generations know the feeling of jonesing for product from Columbia; it's just that their product is coffee. -- Dennis Miller on GenX

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usb hard disk stalls while coping
by George Xylouris 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I plug in my usb hard disk and i manually mount the partition. After a number of files is copied to the disk, the disk stops copying and stalls ... Any suggestions I have the standard x86_64 kernel with the corresponting versions of hotplug, hwinfo, submount Thanx GX

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xlib or XDM troubles
by Roy F. Cabaniss 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

With SuSE 9.1 on an AMD64-3200 I've been trying to get some programs to run/install as su and I consistantly am encountering the following. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison) Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 yes I have been doing the xhost localhost command as a standard user. It's gotta be something simple but this a a problem I never encountered when I was using the 32 bit builds. -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss Associate Professor of Marketing University of Arkansas Monticello

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lockd failing for new cadence tool
by mmarion＠qualcomm.com 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Tool reports: TFW068 (S) A severe problem occurred while read locking the "/usr2/mmarion/cadence/tbdata/locks/globalData_itself" file. The system reason for this message is >>No locks available<<. Read locking has failed. TFW068 Oct 12 19:02:49 preto061 kernel: lockd/statd: failed to create /var/lib/nfs/sm/192.168.94.17: err=-13 Oct 12 19:02:49 preto061 kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.94.17 Lockd is running, I've verified this. Cadence says it's a suse thing, that Redhat works fine. Anyone seen this error and know a fix? Only hit I got on google was to another suse list that said make sure lockd is running.. which I've done. Oddly, I can't stop and restart lockd either. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Steven: "Are you ok?" Scott: "Yeah... it's just been a stressful week." Steven: "Yeah, and it's Tuesday morning." -- Boston Public

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kernel-smp
by Cameron Thorne 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

How much physical memory does kernel-smp-2.6.5 on x86-64 support? I have 4GiB physical memory, but SLES9 x86-64 is only reporting 3.5GiB. Any way around this? -- Cameron

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amd64 and ISA.
by Oleg Gusev 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Why is it impossible to enable ISA through the menuconfig interface ? I needed it for the NSC-IRCC IRDA module and ended up with the editing of Kconfig. Oleg.

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Re: [suse-amd64] kernel-smp
by Cameron Thorne 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

I had one bank (of three) of RAM configured as a hot-spare. I tried reconfiguring in the BIOS to just use all the available RAM, and now the smp kernel recognizes more There is about 225MiB missing now, vs. 512MiB missing as before, which I guess is justifiable per attached email that Kevin sent me. I wonder why more RAM is lost when less is available? -- Cameron

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Re: [suse-amd64] 64-bit laptop
by patheve2 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Hello About your first question : I wrote a previous mail about 64 bits laptop. It is in this mailing list of October. If you want to use a 64 bits linux such as Suse 9.1, you should verify if the video part of the laptop is supported by 64 bits drivers. The main video cards for laptop with Athlon64 are based on ATI or nVidia chipsets. ATI does not supply a 64 bits drivers. Only nVidia supplies such a driver. My ASUS L5D series laptop is built with a nVidia gForce 5650 video and a nVidia gForce 3 150Go chipset for Athlon64. The Acer Aspire 1511 (or 151x) is based on the same chipset, the video is a gForce 5700. The previous one, the 1501 used an ATI video card and a VIA chipset. These two laptop are available in France. Have a look on this website : http://www.amdboard.com You will see all the 64 bits laptop. Regards Pascal ================= I'm going to order a new 64-bit laptop today. I have 2 questions. 1.) what is the best model (tried and true) to purchase to run SuSE 9.1 + on? 2.) I'm sure this has already been discussed. I remember someone stating the syntax used to search this mailing list with google, can someone tell me again? Thanks in advance B-)

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Re: [suse-amd64] amd64 laptop choice
by Bodo Bauer 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 18:05 +0300, Gil Lizcano wrote: > Thanks for the recipe. Now, finally acpi works without freezing the system. > The problem is that the fun is continously working. I guess porbably because the system can not play > with the freq scaling (no /proc/cpufreq file). > > Any idea Did you update the kernel to the latest one released on YOU? BB

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Java and Mono on SuSE 9.2 64 bit?
by detlef.grittner＠t-online.de 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Will there be a 64 bit version of Java and Mono for the amd64 version of Suse 9.2? Or will the 32 bit version of Mono run on the 64 bit Suse 9.2? Maybe one of the content owners can shed a little bit light on this? :-) Best Wishes Detlef

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Next SuSE 9.2 and AMD64 laptop
by patheve2 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hello all I could read on the Novell website some news about the next SuSE 9.2 (perso or pro). The address (french pages) : http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/overview.html It should be available on next november. The kernel is a 2.6.8 made in Suse of course ! (2.6.8.1 exactly ?). If you have a look in the previous mails (previous months) about PCMCIA and AMD64 laptops, you will see that there is a problem with PC cards (modem for example) and kernel 2.6.5 (SuSE 9.1). My question is for the SuSE developpers : can you tell if this problem is solved ? I could read in some previous mails that it should be solved in the kernel 2.6.8.0. I downloaded the standard kernel sources but I never compiled it : I prefer to use a SuSE kernel with a SuSe distrib :-) (I did not take the time to do it in fact). thans for your answers Pascal

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update CD for SuSE 9.1 ?
by Joe Landman 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Folks: Is there an update CD for 9.1? One of my systems (Tyan S2880 based dual 246) is freezing hard when yast fires up. To even get yast to fire up, I have to force a manual install, as the install process locks up on floppy.1: get nvram_ (or at least, that is the last thing on the console). By going the manual route, at least I can get yast going, before it locks. I have tried the safe and noacpi methods. I have tried direct DVD installs and network installs. No luck. 9.0 was also hard to get onto the machine, as a direct DVD install did not work, but a manual->nfs install did. If there is no 9.1 update CD (for AMD64), how soon will 9.2 be available to install? We need 9.1 or better for a project we are working on, and we need to be done with the project around the first week of November. Thanks. Joe -- Joe Landman http://www.scalableinformatics.com

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SUSE 9.2 beta
by Graf, Markus 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hello Where I can download the beta 9.2 ? Markus > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Bodo Bauer [mailto:bb@suse.de] > Gesendet am: Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 13:30 > An: suse-amd64(a)suse.com > Betreff: Re: [suse-amd64] amd64 laptop choice > > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:43 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > "Len Zaifman" <leonardz(a)sickkids.ca> writes: > > > > > would like to replace a 4 year old Sony VAIO with a an > AMD64 laptop. What > > > experience is there ? What works? > > > > > > I looked at the AcerFerrari 3400 which looks good, except > for the broadcom > > > networking (both the 10/100/1000 RJ45 and the wireless > are broadcom ) > > > which I hear doesn't work well with OpenBSD. How does > this work on linux?? > > > > The Broadcom wlan card is not supported at all. > > > > Otherwise the AcerFerrari 3400 should work without problems, > > We tested the Acer Ferrari 3200 here. It is difficult to get > it working > with SuSE Linux 9.1, I have a recipe to fix it however. If anyone is > interested I'm happy to post it. 9.2 works out of the box. > No WLAN, but > NIC, BT, PCMCIA etc work well. > > BB > >

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modprobe error
by chu＠tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hello List, I have been running Oracle 9i on a dual-Opteron system running the following kernel: Linux cumae 2.4.21-226-smp #1 SMP Tue Jun 15 09:04:44 UTC 2004 x86_64 unknown and I've been getting a lot of these messages in /var/log/messages: Oct 10 10:40:09 cumae modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-65 Oct 10 10:40:52 cumae last message repeated 30 times ... Does anyone know what this might be? Does this have something to do with major IDs of device special files? Checking /dev, I see files with major number of 65 are SCSI disk devices. I am running an Escalade 7508 PATA RAID card, which presents its drives to the OS as SCSI devices. BUt I have not had any problems with it. Any information will be appreciated. eyc

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64-bit laptop
by Brad Bourn 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I'm going to order a new 64-bit laptop today. I have 2 questions. 1.) what is the best model (tried and true) to purchase to run SuSE 9.1 + on? 2.) I'm sure this has already been discussed. I remember someone stating the syntax used to search this mailing list with google, can someone tell me again? Thanks in advance B-)

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Help with HP Prolant DL145 Opteron Server install.
by Jeff Schoby 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Grabbed a copy of Suse 9.1 64 bit version from my favorite mirror and got set up for an http install. The boot.iso works just fine, but when you get into the install process where it's detecting the hardware and loading modules it wants to load an mptscsih module for the LSI pci-x scsi card that's in the server. If I let it try to load it it just sits there and basically locks up (except for the spinning clock busy pointer). If I don't let it try to load this module, it can't find the drives. If I change the module name it wants to load to mptbase, it still can't find the drives. Same thing happens with the 32 bit version of Suse 9.1, incidentally. Anyone successfully installed 9.1 on an HP Proliant DL145 Opteron server? -- Jeff Schoby Unix/Network Admin City of Columbia, Missouri 573.874.6320

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Re: [suse-amd64] 32-bit drivers?
by chu＠tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I think it is a basic requirement that the drivers of a 64 bit kernel must also be 64 bit. eyc >Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:54:21 +0100 (BST) >From: robin damion <duke_domani(a)yahoo.co.uk> >To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Subject: [suse-amd64] 32-bit drivers? > >This is probably a silly question but, since I'm rather a newbie in most >areas involved, I feel entitled to ask a few silly questions... > >In the absense (as far as I'm aware) of a 64-bit driver for my graphics >card (Radeon X800 Pro), can I use a 32-bit driver? > >Robin.

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Re: [suse-amd64] 64-bit libs and 32-bit libs
by Steve Potter 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

> > The autoconf family of tools are supposed to make things easier, but > > that's only true when they work right - and they never seem to work > > right in a 64-bit environment. > > The tools work right. IMHO, the real source of the problem > is an irrational /usr/lib8, /usr/lib16 environment. The tools work right? Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. They're supposed to use their knowledge of the host operating system to make it easy to create the correct Makefiles. Are you saying that autoconf is unable to build correct Makefiles on the SuSE 64-bit environment because it is not "UNIX-like"? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

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