December 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How many GB of RAM supports SuSE 9.2 Pro kernel 2.6.xx ?
by Juan Pablo Zagorodny 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

(I could not find the precise number on internet...) Does anybody knows? How much RAM support the SuSE 9.2 Professional kernels 2.6.xx , as maximum, over an AMD 64-bits installation? Is there any known issue / trick to get all of the RAM available on systems with 8 GB or more ? Someone surely has one such system, I would appreciate your comments! thanks much ! JPZ ______________________________________________ please use : <juan.zagorodny(a)uni-konstanz.de> Fachbereich fuer Physik, Universitaet Konstanz, Universitaetsstr.10, Fach M 686, 78457 Konstanz, Germany Phone: +49 7531 88 3825 ______________________________________________

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WiFi Problem
by Anirban Biswas 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Hi I am having problem to setting up my WiFi Card. My Card is BCM4306 802.11b/g as detected by Yast Hardwar info. Though theNetwork interface only detected by LAN card so I manually Configured the WLAN Card as direct PCI based WLAN Card. But still Kwifimanager can not detect any network. So please help me how to setup WLAN or give me some link. TIA Anirban Biswas -- If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah.

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[Fwd: Re: [suse-amd64] Dual Opteron crashes with Kernel Panic / Dump of the panic]
by Andreas Wahlert 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Hi @ all, there are any news on this opteron crash?? There are much more machines with this prob and SuSE 9.2. After a Bios Patch from FSC the machine runs fine under SuSE 9.1. regards from germany Andreas Wahlert

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64-bit Firefox and Java plugin
by Joe Georger 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

I d/l'ed the blackdown 64-bit jre 1.4.2 and I still cannot get the following site to work: www.rockauto.com (click on big red button) Instead of gettng a missing plugin I now get just a grey box with a red x in the corner.... I created symlink in the firefox plugin directory as instructed.... Any ideas?

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pthread differences
by Simon Nattrass 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

On SLES 64 there are two versions of the library libpthread.a - /usr/lib64/libpthread.a & /usr/lib64/nptl/libpthread.a. What's the difference? I'm guessing the later maybe implements the Native POSIX Thread Library while the former uses what? ? (LinuxThreads?, Next Generation POSIX Threads?). Rgds, Simon

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VMware shared folders
by Leonard mckinley 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Has anyone gotten shared folders to work with a 64-bit host? vmtools installed fine, but if you try to read a host file (e.g. via cp or cat) on the guest, the command never terminates as the stream VMware is providing is infinitely long. If you look at what it's reading (via cat), VMware is repeatedly inserting copies of the original file into the virtual file, one right after the other, ad infinitem. Any thoughts? Environment: Host: SuSE 9.2 64-bit (x86_64) Guest: SuSE 9.2 32-bit VMware: 4.5.2 Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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USB 2.0
by Jason Vertrees 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

Howdy, I've read this list, linux-usb, suse sdb USB2.0 page and read the /usr/share/docs on USB2, but I'm still having problems. The problem is that my USB 2.0 device (SanDisk Cruzer Ti, 512MB) won't get a device mapped to it (say, /dev/sdb1) so I can mount and use it. The system is SuSe 9.1 with a homemade 2.6.9 kernel. I have a USB 2.0 compliant MSI K8T800 motherboard with dual Opteron 240s (VIA 8237). The SanDisk works on my other dual Opteron machine, at school, but it uses an iWill motherboard, not MSI. Short: 'lsmod' shows the modules installed. 'dmesg' sees the drive upon insertion, but no /dev/sdb1 or similar is offered. 'usbview & usbtree.pl & lsusb' show the device attached with all appropriate info which is exactly what I see in /proc/bus/usb/devices/... 'fdisk -l' does NOT list the drive. 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't show the drive either. It does not get mapped to anything in /media. Upon drive insertion, the light flashes quickly, then goes out. 'usbview' likes me to slowly insert the drive. :) Tried with and without APIC, ACPI. BIOS recognizes the drive if I coldplug it. I think it caused boot problems though. (Need to retry.) Have the latest BIOS from MSI. usbfs has appropriate entry in /etc/fstab. Detailed: Compiled modules for vfat, ntfs, sg, echi_hcd/ohci_hcd (yes, even tried with and without the VIA specific module), usbcore and usb-storage as explained in the docs. Hotplug is installed and loads fine. (Tried w/o hotplug, as that helped some people.) I even added the appropriate line for my drive into usb.handmap. ehci_hcd is loaded early as per SuSe instructions. Also turned on multiple LUNs as per instructions. # dmesg ... ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: port 4 high speed ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: GetStatus port 4 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using address 7 usb 4-4: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 4-4: default language 0x0409 usb 4-4: Product: Cruzer Titanium usb 4-4: Manufacturer: SanDisk Corporation usb 4-4: SerialNumber: 00000000000000094643 usb 4-4: hotplug usb 4-4: adding 4-4:1.0 (config #1, interface 0) usb 4-4:1.0: hotplug # ~/usbtree.pl /: Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/6p, 480M |__ Port 4: Dev 7, If 0, Class=stor., Driver=none, 480M /: Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M /: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M /: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M # lsmod Module Size Used by usb_storage 105232 0 ehci_hcd 40964 0 uhci_hcd 31128 0 usbcore 121984 5 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd pciehp 92648 0 pci_hotplug 11396 1 pciehp vfat 13184 0 fat 43808 1 vfat ... sg 33976 0 #cat /proc/interrupts #value for CPU1 increased upon drive insertion. ... 185: 509 995 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd So, it appears that the system sees it, but won't let me use it? Thanks for any help/ideas! -- Jason -- Jason Vertrees BSCB Graduate Student @ UTMB, Galveston javertre(a)utmb.edu :: http://www.bscb.utmb.edu

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RE: [suse-amd64] BlueTooth devices in SuSE 9.2
by James D. Parra 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hello, Thank you, but that didn't work. Not after a reboot either. Any other thoughts? Many thanks, ~James did you put << 0000 >> in the authentication box in YaST Bluetooth? My GPS locked on quickly after i did that. Most peripherals do not do key based authentication, and apparently 0000 is the null key. This was on a 32-bit SuSE 9.2. I haven't gotten 64-bit to work yet melissa James D. Parra wrote: >Hello, > >Have an Acer 3400 and can't seem to get the BlueTooth keyboard and mouse >configured to work. > >Is a Yast Bluetooth pin needed? Looked in KDE Control Center under OBEX >devices, but couldn't find anything there. Also Konquer BlueTooth sees the >BlueTooth devices (keyboard & mouse), but they don't work. I get an >"Unknown bluetooth profile" message. > >Anyone have any ideas? Thank you in advance. > >James > > > >

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BlueTooth devices in SuSE 9.2
by James D. Parra 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hello, Have an Acer 3400 and can't seem to get the BlueTooth keyboard and mouse configured to work. Is a Yast Bluetooth pin needed? Looked in KDE Control Center under OBEX devices, but couldn't find anything there. Also Konquer BlueTooth sees the BlueTooth devices (keyboard & mouse), but they don't work. I get an "Unknown bluetooth profile" message. Anyone have any ideas? Thank you in advance. James

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Mysterious shutdown
by Örn Hansen 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi, I've recently experience mysterious shutdown on my AMD64 system. Just now, after the computer had been on, playing music (the only thing being done on it), it suddenly shut itself off. I have to "unplug and replug" the powersupply to have the computer start again. Is it possible, that some "hardware" in the system is causing this, the memory in the computer are two brand new ... two kingston 512Mb modules, the hard disk is also new, a SATA one. The CPU was bough earlier this year, the system being run is SuSE 9.2, with the latest upgrades from apt4rpm (gwdg.de). Personally, I'm thinking "powersupply" ... has anyone run into this behaviour? Örn

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