October 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How do I get enough "juice" for my AMD64 bit based system getting ready for SuSE 9.2 ;-)
by Johan Nielsen 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

As I plan to make a nice "little" numbercruncher of a AMD 64 bit system My head just hit the wall. I would like the system to be able to take around 10 to 20 harddrives. This will be needed because of the amount of testdata and for temporary backups. Now this will need to have some power to make that possible. I would like to avoid a RACK system as they are quite expensive (yes money does matter to some extent ;-) ). OK I'm not a wizard in power supplies so I need some help on this (very badly) Have any of you out there seen something like this available in europe (OK or elsewhere) and do you have any idea how much such a cute thing would cost: If there's alternatives to this solution I'm all ears/yours. A list http://www.zippy.com.tw/P_PRODUCT_LIST.asp?pcp_rfnbr=10&pcp_name=N%2b1%20Re… One specific: I think this one would make most sense ;-) 1000W http://www.zippy.com.tw/P_product_detail.asp?lv_rfnbr=2&pp_rfnbr=1154&pcp_r… 1300W http://www.zippy.com.tw/P_product_detail.asp?lv_rfnbr=2&pp_rfnbr=1155&pcp_r… Thanks a lot for any suggestion/advice Johan

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ASUS SK8V Memory config on suse 9.1 a bit off topic
by bob sandefur 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hi My tyan s2850 mobo died (broken keyboard connector) so I bought a asus sk8v. I works fine on 9.1 but I would like to add 2 2g memory sticks to my 2 1g kvr333x72rc25/1gb sticks. Questions are: anyone running 6gb on this mobo? If no any issues with 4gb systems Thanx Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite G-13 Lakewood, Co 80228 rsandefur(a)cam-llc.com 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14

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"segfault at ... " message when ...
by Kevin.Wilson＠comtrol.com 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

moving or copying files TO the 3ware sata raid controller mounted to directory. The error does not appear when you move a file from the raid disk to the IDE system disk. system drive = IDE: /dev/hda SATA = /dev/sda : Mount point = /satad kernel = 2.6.5-7.111-smp 3ware 9500S SATA RAID controller. 2.6 kernel sources driver [Message from /var/log/messages] Oct 21 04:43:06 lnxdb kernel: mv[4211]: segfault at 0000000000000400 rip 0000002a959f7e10 rsp 0000007fbfffe4b8 error 4

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?s about "<kernel version>-override" directory
by Kevin.Wilson＠comtrol.com 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

3ware was unable to get their 9500S SATA RAID Controller module source in the 2.6 kernel x86_64 tree in time. As a result I have a unsupported external module compiled from their sources using the kernel-syms to thwart kernel version dependence. I placed the module in the /lib/modules/<kernel version>-override directory since I cannot have a kernel update render my RAID array inaccessible. I could not find any detailed information relating to the use of this directory but I would hope someone here could inform me of the implications of doing so. Essentially this will be a production database server (very soon) and I need to be able to keep the system up to date using Y.O.U., will I have to bypass the kernel updates and do them manually in conjunction with the raid module rebuild? System = Dual AMD Opteron 64, 4GB RAM running SuSE 9.1 installed from distro disk. Thanks all for any help you may provide.

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sil3114 under 9.1
by Joe Georger 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

I have a Tyan S2885 with the sil3114 onboard raid controller. I have it working under Suse 9.0. My question is will it work under 9.1? Tyan's website has a driver for up to Suse 9.0, and Silicon Image's website only has drivers up to Suse 8.2! Thanks, Joe

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amd64 laptop choice
by Len Zaifman 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

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?? I can also look at a more customised system below Both laptops are based on: VIA K8T800+VT8235CE chipset: Should I comnsider any other lamd64 laptops? The laptop will be a dual boot OpenBSD 3.6 / Suse Linux 9.1 (and hopefully no windows) Customised solution: EUROCOM D400K PYTHON Summary Base System 15-inch XGA (1024-by-768 pixels) Wireless WLAN 802.11b/g WLAN; internal miniPCI; Intel® PRO Wireless 2200 Processor 3200+ AMD Athlon64 Mobile; 62W; 754-pin; 1MB cache Memory 1024MB (2x512MB) DDR333 PC2700 200pin - 1 SODIMM Video Module 64MB ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 Hard Drive 60GB (2.5'') 7,200rpm w/8MB cache Internal Card Reader 3-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MS/MMC) Optical Drive 4x Slot Super DVD Multi Drive (DVD-RAM/+RW/-RW; CD-RW; DVD/CD-ROM) with Software or System 17-inch Wide-Screen UltraBright WSXGA+ (1680-by-1050 pixels) - EUROCOM D470K PYTHON Wireless WLAN 802.11b/g WLAN; internal miniPCI; Intel® PRO Wireless 2200 Bluetooth Module Processor 3200+ AMD Athlon64 Mobile; 62W; 754-pin; 1MB cache Memory 1GB (2x 512MB) DDR333 PC2700 200pin - 2 SODIMM Hard Drive 60GB (2.5'') 7,200rpm w/8MB cache Operating System Keyboard (Language) Keyboard - U.S. English Internal Card Reader 4-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MS/MMC/MS-Pro) Optical Drive 4x Slot Super DVD Multi Drive (DVD-RAM/+RW/-RW; CD-RW; DVD/CD-ROM) with Software -- Len Zaifman Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems Centre for Computational Biology Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 leonardz(a)sickkids.ca (416)813-5513

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sound problems ...
by Rainer 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

hello, just installed suse 9.1 pro and while the test sound during install worked i don't hear anything now except the odd awful sound for an error message. followed the instructions for this problem at support db steps 1 and 2, answer yes, and skip to step 13 but at step 14 i don't get the expected message, kamix simply restarts with no sound. thanks

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32 bit API for sendmsg using AppleTalk fails with invalid argument
by Helmut Tschemernjak 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Hello, i am new to this list and look for some help regarding the sendmsg system call. I like to find out why the the sendmsg system call works for AppleTalk DDP sockets on Suse 9.1/ia32 and fails on a 64 bit Suse 9.1 OS using the 32 bit existing binary. I have tried to investigate where the 32bit API parameters gets converted into 64 bit. I believe there could be a binary API bug. Is the directory "linux/arch/x86_64/ia32" at good place to look? It looks like the kernel will do booth system calls 32 bit and 64 bit. Has somebody an idea where the 32 syscall parameters are getting converted into 64 bit for the sendmsg system call? I checked already the size of the struct sockaddr_at, it is identical on 32 and 64 bit systems (16 bytes). At the end I have included a pre-processed code sequence where the sendmsg fails with Invalid argument error code. Thanks Helmut Tschemernjak ------------- snip --- int DDPWrite(int skt, WDSElement *wdsPtr, AddrBlock dest, int type) { struct iovec iov[16]; register struct iovec *vp = iov; register int iovlen = 0; struct msghdr msg; uint8 typeCode; static struct sockaddr_netat sat = { 5 }; if (skt < 0 || skt > 256) { _stdfprintf(sfstderr, "DDPWrite: skt out of range\n"); return ddpSktErr; } sat.sat_addr.s_net = dest.aNet; sat.sat_addr.s_node = dest.aNode; sat.sat_port = dest.aSocket; typeCode = type; vp->iov_base = (caddr_t)&typeCode; vp->iov_len = sizeof(typeCode); vp++; iovlen++; msg.msg_name = (caddr_t)&sat; msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(sat); while (wdsPtr->entryLength) { vp->iov_base = (caddr_t)wdsPtr->entryPtr; vp->iov_len = wdsPtr->entryLength; vp++; wdsPtr++; iovlen++; if (iovlen > 16) return badBuffNum; } msg.msg_iov = iov; msg.msg_iovlen = iovlen; msg.msg_control = 0; msg.msg_controllen = 0; if (sendmsg(skt2fd[skt], &msg, 0) == -1) { toolStatsPtr->ddpSendErrs++; _stdperror("DDPWrite: sendmsg"); return (*__errno_location ()) == 11 ? wouldBlockErr : unixErr; } return noErr; }

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Re: [suse-amd64] Intel 64-bit compatible compiler for AMD64?
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

>In message from "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam(a)HiWAAY.net> (Sun, 17 >Oct 2004 23:18:27 -0500): >>Jyh-Shyong Ho wrote: >>>>Hi, >>>Recently Intel released 64-bit compatible compiler 8.1 which supports >>>both Intel 64-bit x86 and AMD x86-64 chips. I wonder who has actually >>>tried this new version of compiler on and AMD x86-64 system? >>>I downloaded the non-commercial version of the compiler and installed >>>on my Opteron system, however, only the 32-bit version can be >>>>>installed. ifc/ifort 8.1.023 creates 64-bit executable, but ifc 8.1.018 builds 32-bit executables only. And yes, all compilers modules itself (as the libraries also, if I remember correctly) are 32-bit. We has 8.1.023 installed on SuSE 9.0 for Opteron. >>Really ?!?!?! What version, etc. ? I just spent about 50 minutes last >>night (literally) downloading updated Linux Intel FORTRAN & C >>compilers >>(8.1.19 FORTRAN, 8.1.22 C), what else do I need to get ? BTW, a >>'32-bit' >>compiler might still be able to generate 64-bit code AOK, I *think* >>'32-bit' means it's a 32-bit app, 32-bit internal addressing, could >>still work OK to get 64-bit code .... Thanks in advance !!!! > I am not sure that there are "versions before 8.1.023" which are able to build 64-bit binaries. Pls look to ReleaseNotes. Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow > > >

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Re: [suse-amd64] Mellanox Infiniband on SuSE 9.0 - xp0 module, etc
by Bob Lee 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:51:42PM +0400, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > In message from Bob Lee <bob(a)pantasys.com> (Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:43:54 You might still try to build it, my trip through the make files indicated tests for 2.4 vs 2.6. YMMV, but its at least a vector > Thanks for your reply ! > I'm sorry, do you use 2.4 (which?) or 2.6 x86_64 kernel ? 2.6 x86_64 > Yours > Mikhail bob

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