November 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SATA controllers
by Örn Hansen 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I just got myself a Seagate SATA drive and after some sweating I managed to get it working as my primary boot drive, wasn't easy with the old 9.1 thought. Now, I'm trying to figure out where it's best to stick it. I got a MSI NEO mainboard, and there are two controllers on it. A 8237 based one, and a promise 378 one. The 8237 also controlles the IDE drives, and I have a DVD ROM and a DVD Writer connected to those. I'm toying with the idea of having the DVD Rom on one channel (IDE0) and the DVD Writer on the other (IDE1). And now my "wondering" on the subject. Isn't it better to use the promise for the sata hard disk? The DVD's are connected to the 8237, and I believe that it's the same controller that controls the sata and ide drives on the 8237 (I may be wrong), thus wouldn't I get a net gain by connecting it to the 387? and then, has anyone had any bad experiences with the promise driver ... think I heard some, but not sure.

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Re: [suse-amd64] suse 9.2 and nvidia GL
by Brad Bourn 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Another thing I noticed is that after the powersave does something (not sure if it is stand-by or hibernation) the screen won't come back. It will flicker a little then stay black. Switching to virtual terminal and back does the trick.... (Ctrl-Alt-F1, Alt-F7) B-) On Monday 01 November 2004 12:02 pm, Uwe Pannecke wrote: > Hi Brad, > > > I had / have the same thing happening to me. I noticed that all I had to > > do was manually 'modprobe nvidia', then it would start. > > yes, this did it for me also. > Thank You for the hint! > > Kindly regards > > Uwe

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Re: [suse-amd64] Sound on ASUS K8V motherboard, SuSE 9.1
by Pierre Patino 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Chuck Gibke wrote: >>>Hello >>> >>> > >I've been completely unsuccessful in getting sound to work on this >motherboard. YaST cannot see it at all. However, several people have >reported "no problems". Is this with or without tweaking the >configuration? What sound driver are you using? According to the >documentation, the sound chip is AD1980. Can anyone help this poor sap? > >Cheers << > >I had a similar problem with 9.0 and a K8V deluxe - it appeared that the >sound was set up & configured but nothing was coming through the speakers. >Someone on this list recommended going into the audio control panel via >YAST and setting all the volume controls to 100 (there are a bunch) and >then adjusting the ones you needed. This worked for me - I had sound after >that. I have no idea which combination triggered the solution - I just >shotgunned it. > >However, I have a plain K8V now on another box with 9.1 but I haven't had >time to play with it (no speakers connected), so I don't know exactly about >that one. > >Good luck. > >......Chuck > > Hmmmm.. In my case, YaST doesn't even see the sound hardware. This is what hwifo says about the sound device: UniqueID=Ssy1.KzJ6TO9PmfB HWClass=sound Model=Asustek A7V600 motherboard (ADI AD1980 codec [SoundMAX]) Configured=yes Available=no Needed=no Active=unknown Bus=0x4 Slot=0x11 Function=0x5 BaseClass=0x4 SubClass=0x1 VendorID=1106 DeviceID=3059 SubVendorID=1043 SubDeviceID=80b0 RevisionID=0x60 DeviceName=VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller VendorName=VIA Technologies, Inc. SubDeviceName=A7V600 motherboard (ADI AD1980 codec [SoundMAX]) SubVendorName=Asustek Computer, Inc. Drivers=VIA 82xx Audio SysfsID=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.5 SysfsBusID=0000:00:11.5 HWClassList=00800020000000 Res.IO=0xc800,0x100,1,3 Res.Interrupts=22,0,1 > > > > >

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new install on AMD64 x86 with "slight" X-windows problem
by ozymandias＠pt-cruiser.net 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Ok, so I finally got all the bits and pieces I wanted for my 64 bit box together and have run into a slight problem. My 19" Monitor is capable of displaying 1280x1024, but only @ 75Hz. Yast seemed to detect the correct frequency range while I was installing, but when X/KDE started up my monitor reported that they sync rate was out of range. I switched to a terminal and logged in then ran YAST in text mode, but seem to be unable to change the refresh rates reported that are probed. How can I change the default refresh rate that X/KDE uses? I amsume that there is a config file I can edit while logged into a terminal, but after (a very short) google attempt I could not locate an answer. thanks Lance

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network install from 9.2 dvd media
by Brad Bourn 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have copied the DVD media for 9.2 to my harddrive. This weekend I tried to do a network install and had the following issues. 1.) No boot.iso on the DVD's. so I downloaded 9.1's boot.iso 2.) The boot.iso didn't automatically detect the network card. I had to do a manual install, manual kernel module load for the card. 3.) The setup went just fine until it got to the figuring out packages. Then it failed every time determining the default packages to install. Can anyone help me with this? B-)

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What is an equiv. nVidia card for the ATI 9000?
by Tom Emerson 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;) I currently have an ATI 9000 ["powered by" rather than "built by"], and I'm wondering what the closest rough equivalent is in the nvidia line -- an unusually helpful Fry's guy tells me it would be about the same as a 5500 series card [seems he plays games too... :) ] Depending on brand, the cost seems to range from $90 to $150. They had one [returned] 5700 "LE" board for about $10 more, and then everything jumps to the 6800 series at $300 or $400 [with the higher price going for twice the memory at 1ghz memory speed vs. 700mhz] Since I've just upgraded to a 64 bit system, I'm a little hesitant to dump another $400 into this [kind of makes the overall cost of my upgrade sound less fantastic, since this will push it into the $1600+ range] I'd really like to stick with ATI, but if the drivers aren't there, well, it gets to be time to move on... :(

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regular crashing on 9.1
by Edwin Heath 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

My system seems to have become really unstable lately with applications crashing with sigsev or the whole system freezing (even at runlevel 3 in bash) I'm running: Linux espresso 2.6.5-7.111-default #1 Wed Oct 13 15:45:13 UTC 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have seen errors like the one below on the console quite a few time recently. bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'artsd', page 0000010001b6f1b8) flags:0x20100014 mapping:000001003df96630 mapped:0 count:0 private:0x00000000 Backtrace: Call Trace:<ffffffff80159788>{bad_page+120} <ffffffff80159b2f>{free_hot_cold_page+127} <ffffffff801634f8>{unmap_page_range+712} <ffffffff801636f0>{unmap_vmas+320} <ffffffff8016622a>{exit_mmap+106} <ffffffff80133964>{mmput+68} <ffffffff801379d1>{do_exit+497} <ffffffff801382f9>{do_group_exit+169} <ffffffff801103a4>{system_call+124} Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed heres a few more examples: Oct 25 12:23:58 espresso kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'yast2', page 0000010001d6ab78) Oct 25 12:24:56 espresso kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'sh', page 0000010001ceeaf8) Oct 25 15:34:52 espresso kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'firefox-bin', page 00000100010cc538) Oct 25 15:34:53 espresso kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'X', page 0000010001d0b8f8) Oct 29 21:41:24 espresso kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'online_update', page 000001000184f158) Oct 31 13:32:47 espresso kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'K03cron', page 0000010001d4f7b8) Oct 31 13:53:54 espresso kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'artsd', page 0000010001b6f1b8) Does this look like a hardware problem or is it something I've broken? I should be getting 9.2 in a few days :) so do I just give up on this install or does it look fixable. I've not seen the same issues on the 32bit install on the same box but then I don't use it much. Any ideas? Ed

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