December 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Mobo sugggestions for suse 9.2 with 4gb unregistered 184 pim memory?
by bob sandefur 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi I would like to upgrade my pentium 4.0 2.0GH 3GB pc2700 184 pin unregistered ram to a 4gb AMD64 machine by buying 1 more 1gb stick and getting a new mobo and and cpu. Is any one running susu 9.2 on such a unit? If so what is your mobo and processor? 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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How to create an ext3 filesystem above 2T
by Patrick Freeman 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

I am trying to create a single filesystem out of an 8TB iscsi clustered volume. Ext3 is supposed to go up to 16TB with a 4k block size but only does 2TB. XFS does the same thing (at least both of them (XFS and ext3) report 1.9TB by running a "df -h" even though they did not complain during formatting (of the 8TB volume)). Specifying a larger block size in XFS creates an invalid filesystem (since from the XFS man page and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt - we see that block size is upper bound by memory page size and currently "fixed" at 4kB). So this brings me to my series of questions: 1) Since Ext3 is supposed to go up to 16TB with a 4kB block size - am I experiencing something else when I see that the df output shows 2TB? 2) Is this the same with XFS? i.e. is the limit for a 4kB memory page size (and thus block size) actually higher than 2TB and I am seeing some other kind of problem? 3) Additionally, it seems that formatting an iscsi volume with XFS causes lots of errors and OOPSes (like "Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page 0000010001a10578)" ). I am using the XFS version 2.6.3 on a 2.6.8.1 kernel (source from kernel.org) and linux-iscsi-4.0.1.10 (the only kernel/driver combo I could actually get to work - the 4.0.1 that ships with 9.1 hangs when starting the iscsid). Any help on these questions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Patrick W. Freeman Systems Specialist DATAllegro, Inc ... Data at the speed of business

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RE: [suse-amd64] suse 9.2 install kernel panic
by Juan Pablo Zagorodny 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

-- Hi there I just had the same problem as Mark refers (Tyan S2882 Thunder K8X PRO, 2 x Opteron 248, 4 x 2 GB RAM modules = 8 GB total RAM ) the SuSE 9.2 installer (DVD just out of the green box) does not boot, not even in rescue mode. I removed 2 RAM modules (= 4GB) out of the machine, then the installer booted OK and I was able to install our loved OpSys. Afterwards, I inserted the 2 modules back again, and the machine did not booted. Actually grub boots the menu screen, but after selecting either choice, total hangt, black screen. I tried the kernel options "mem=4096" and "mem=2048" as suggested in this thread below, but it did not work. Question: Is there a maximum RAM memory that the Kernel 2.6.8.[...] or 2.6.9. can handle? Any Idea? Thanks!! Juan Pablo Zagorodny Message-ID: <8CA8D92FACEB5447AB1ABA12B13A54CEA09B2D(a)exchange-2.comtrol.com> From: Kevin.Wilson(a)comtrol.com Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:41:56 -0600 Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] suse 9.2 install kernel panic You're welcome. Now that you system is installed with the smp kernel you may be able to remove it. Would be interesting to know if the smp kernel can handle > 5GB of ram. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Horton [mailto:mark@nostromo.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:38 AM To: Kevin Wilson Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] suse 9.2 install kernel panic This did the trick. I added mem=2048m to the kernel options and it installed fine. Thanks much. Mark Kevin.Wilson(a)comtrol.com wrote: > It looks like a problem with RAM amounts > 4GB. I have 4GB installed but > ~800 is reserved by the bios so the problem doesn't occur on my system. > Enter mem=2048 as a boot parm and see what happens. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Horton [mailto:mark@nostromo.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:28 AM > To: SuSe 64-bit ML > Subject: [suse-amd64] suse 9.2 install kernel panic > > > Just received Suse 9.2 and I'm getting a kernel panic when I try to > install it on my Opteron system. It happens right away, after selecting > "Installation". Although I don't see the kernel panic unless I select > text install. If I don't select text install the screen just goes > blank. I've tried tons of different kernel params, such as turning off > ACPI, APM, etc... > > I'm using a Tyan S2885 with 8GB ram and 2 x opteron 248 processors. I > can install 9.1 and 9.0 fine so I'm not sure what's wrong. Does anyone > have any suggestions on how to trouble shoot or solve this problem? > > Mark > ______________________________________________ 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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MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum 54G Problems én massé
by Johan Nielsen 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

From a former mail in here Contrary to 9.1 on a P4C800 board it did see the first 2 HD's (seagate 200GB's SATA) so at least I don't have to have an old ATA drive around to get to "play" like back then. (I have 6 more of those 200GB drives waiting to get busy). I have an Asus V9520 V Suite (works out of the box with basic X.org) Standard mouse / old IBM 1 ton keyboard that just wont die (and needs a cleaning). The good old 19" Daewoo 901D is doing fine for the last 5-7 years. above works and the DVD-burner works so burned out the attached files. The part that doesn't work from a 9.2 out of the box point of view. Hmm ..... welllllll ... that's a long list .... but I can't connect to the net with that PC ;-) Yast detects one of the on-board nics (realtek 8169) sets it up and then: dhcpcd still waiting for data (forever) Compared the boot process on the fly and looks like 2'nd boot makes the nVidia on board NIC come alive and the two of them swap position (eth0 / eth1) But have a look at the attached files it's all documented there Floppy dead for now (don't worry .... about that the burner works). The 3'rd and 4'th SATA port on the board it's a plain no show. Any action with the Promise SATA II TX4 is just a dream for now I guess. (And I only need "ordinary" access) I'all add a drive to the sata controller to see if responds (an earlier attempt gave a no show though). Johan First boot.msg lsmod (list)

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Re: [suse-amd64] k3b and SuSE 9.1 AMD64 (kernel 2.6.8) : DVD ok, CD not ok
by patheve2 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi Andreas Just for information, the k3b update I am using is a 0.11.12-4.1 So I will download the 0.11.12-4.2.4. Before I did "chmod rws /usr/bin/cdrecord" as it is with SuSE 9.0 : no success. So I hope that the problem will be solved with this new update. Regards Pascal ============================= patheve2 <patheve2(a)tele2.fr> writes: /> Hi Matt, Hi Andreas / /> / /> / /> Yes, there is a reason for using of the k3b v0.11.12-4. I use a SuSE / /> 9.1 with only the kernel 2.6.8-24.5 coming from the SuSE 9.2 (this is / /> for the PCMCIA cards 16bits). There is no update of KDE (a 3.2) and / /> when I installed the k3b-0.11.17, I could not get the use of it : the GUI / /> crashed during loading of k3b. That's why I had to installed this 0.11.12-4, / /> an update for SuSE 9.1. I suppose that the 0.11.17 requires the kde 3.3 / You should get the k3b-0.11.12.2.4 from our ftp side. That one has been tested with 9.1 and the update kernel and should work fine, Andreas /> libs. This evening, I have seen the same problem with a SuSE 9.1 for / /> i586 with a kernel 2.6.8. So this problem is not due to x86_64 :-) ! / /> I have not such a problem with SuSE 9.0 (KDE 3.1 and k3b 0.10.xx). / /> That's curious : why DVD ok, not CD ? Perharps a problem with crdrecord / /> and status for user-group-other ? / /> / /> Regards / /> / /> Pascal /

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Re: [suse-amd64] 9.2 and YOU - seems to be broken here
by melissad 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Thank-you, Eugene, Martin, Sid. I will try that driver. Am having the same problems however with a simple vanilla ATA --- no SCSI. Martin, have used both Reiser and EXT3. William, note that I did not install patches during the install. After the install, tried both automatic patch selection and manual (selecting just YaST and the kernel. It did install on the ATA system and reboot and complete, when I skipped the patch installation during the install. It ran sitting still all day. I loaded a bynch of monitoring tools, copied files from a CD, opened and saved in OOffice, rebooted warm and cold several times. But as soon as YOU started downloading patches, the freezes and reboots started atain The successful install was the defautlt partitioning, one swap and a 79GB << / >>. I am really clueless. This has happened both with the 6-bit and the 32 bit versions. Been using SuSE since 6.4 and this is the first major insoluable I have had. Am tending to believe with Sid that this 9.2 is alpha. Novell is trying to integrate, work SLES, develop the Novell Open Enterprise Server with SLES and Novell middleware, and put out the Novell Linux desktop for the enterprise customer. Maybe 9.2 is a "Fedora-like" alpha-beta hacker's version for Novell. If so, they are missing it. melissa Eugene Chu wrote: >I haven't install Suse 9.2 yet, but in all the other systems I installed >in the past, the Adaptec 29160 uses the AIC7xxx driver, not the AIC79xx. >How did it work with AIC79xx in your installtion? > >eyc > > > >

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Re: [suse-amd64] k3b and SuSE 9.1 AMD64 (kernel 2.6.8) : DVD ok, CD not ok
by patheve2 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi Matt, Hi Andreas Yes, there is a reason for using of the k3b v0.11.12-4. I use a SuSE 9.1 with only the kernel 2.6.8-24.5 coming from the SuSE 9.2 (this is for the PCMCIA cards 16bits). There is no update of KDE (a 3.2) and when I installed the k3b-0.11.17, I could not get the use of it : the GUI crashed during loading of k3b. That's why I had to installed this 0.11.12-4, an update for SuSE 9.1. I suppose that the 0.11.17 requires the kde 3.3 libs. This evening, I have seen the same problem with a SuSE 9.1 for i586 with a kernel 2.6.8. So this problem is not due to x86_64 :-) ! I have not such a problem with SuSE 9.0 (KDE 3.1 and k3b 0.10.xx). That's curious : why DVD ok, not CD ? Perharps a problem with crdrecord and status for user-group-other ? Regards Pascal =============================== Hi Pascal, funny error, indeed! Sorry, no solution, but a question: Is there a special reason for you to use k3b v0.11.12-4 and not the current version k3b-0.11.17? Before trying to fix k3b v0.11.12 it might make sense to upgrade first, and see if the error is not fixed in the meantime. Then I would run k3b-setup (not in the SuSE version) to let it set the permissions correctly. You seem to be using 9.2 now, there is a k3b RPM on packman for suse92-x86_64 HTH, Matt

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RE: [suse-amd64] big machine
by Pettini, Don 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi Steve, I have been using the Tyan dual opteron for a while along with some IBM's running 32/64 bit modes, usually SLES 9 not pro 9.2 though. They have a larger model -- http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qspro.html http://www.iwillusa.com/products/ProductDetail.asp?vID=192 These two boards have the processor/memory you require. The price of the CPU's are substantially more than a dual processor configuration, as you move up to the 854 processor. You ask what else to consider. Can you describe the application flow in more detail? Can you talk about what storage architecture you intend on using. Don -----Original Message----- From: Steve Potter [mailto:geopagan@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 1:50 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] big machine We're about to start looking for a big machine (compared to the ones that we have now). We're thinking about something with 4 processors and 16 or 32GB RAM. Are there any motherboards and/or configurations that we need to be careful to avoid because they won't work with SuSE 9.2? Any other tips on selecting a big machine? The machine will be running EDA jobs (sometimes concurrently, but only a few at once), each reading in a ton of data and manipulating it in memory, then writing it back out. Thanks, Steve Potter -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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PCMCIA 16 bits card with kernel 2.4.21 and 2.6.8 AMD64 (more infos)
by patheve2 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hello again Matt At first, I tested my Com One modem card MC277 with WinXP on my laptop (WinXP, SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1). Sure, it works without driver. I had a look in the hardware profil. WinXp gives this : - first socket : memory ranges : fd200000-fd200fff , feaf7000-feaf7fff , fb200000-fd1fffff, feafc000-feafcfff I/O ranges : dc00-dcff , d400-d4ff - second socket : memory ranges : fa200000-fa200fff , feaf5000-feaf5fff , fdaf5000-feaf4fff , feaf6000-feaf6ffff I/O ranges : d000-d0ff , cc00-ccff - PCI bridge : I/O range : b000-dfff memory range : f8a00000-feafffff (NB : same info than with lspci -v) After pluggin of the MC227, WinXP "says" about it : IRQ: 09 I/O Range : c8f8-c8ff port : COM5 driver : serial.sys, modem.sys In case of the Hayes modem card, the port is COM4 instead of COM5 and there is a 3rd driver : hayes.sys So, why not to use these data in the config.opts file ? For memory : fa200000-feafcfff, for I/O : b000-dcff . I did it but with no success. I don't know which values to use for I/O and memory . I tried with the range of PCI bridge : no success. No more hope ? And a curious behaviour during the shutdown of the laptop : the process fails at the stopping of the PCMCIA service when a modem card is plugged and no way after for reaching a complet shutdown. I have to switch off the laptop with the button. Regards Pascal ============================================ On Tuesday 23 November 2004 04:34, patheve2 wrote: /> Hello / /> / /> Yes, I confirm that the infos I gave are the right ones for / /> kernel 2.6.8 . For no confusion (right english word ?) I join the / /> 3 files : serial.opts, config and config.opts. I used these for he / /> following tests. Curious behaviour of the modem card, in particular / /> the Com One which should work according this website : / /> http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_ci10478.html / /> So, with these below details, I hope that it will help you to find the / /> reason why the modem cards are so "hard" to work properly :-) / /> / /> Regards / /> / /> Pascal / /> / /> 1/ case of the Com Oen card MC227 (modem) / /> So, before pluggin : / /> / /> - lsmod : / /> / /> ds 21128 4 / /> yenta_socket 21248 0 / /> pcmcia_core 66188 2 ds,yenta_socket / /> / /> And after pluggin : / /> / /> - dmesg : / /> cs: memory probe 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000: excluding 0xf8a00000-0xfa4f3fff / /> 0xfadf0000-0xfb26dfff 0xfb6ec000-0xfd65dfff / this is *not* good. On my system serial_cs says which serial port it did assign to the card (I'm not at the system, so I cannot quote the exact message). Once it worked, it did not mention the memory ranges, which it did scan, anymore. This looks as if you insert the card, then cs gets started, scans the memory, but does not find anything. Thus the card does not get a serial port assigned. You need to work on the memory / port ranges, as long as there is no serial port assigned to your card by serial_cs. (If the card does not need a special driver, then of course serial_cs is irrelevant, but that driver would need to get loaded). /> / /> - more /var/log/messages under root login : / /> / /> Nov 22 21:37:13 snidre kernel: cs: memory probe 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000: / /> excluding 0xf8a00000-0xfa4f3fff 0xfadf0000-0xfb26dfff 0xfb6ec000-0xfd65dfff / /> Nov 22 21:37:13 snidre cardmgr[2816]: socket 0: Serial or Modem / /> / /> - lsmod : / /> serial_cs 11176 1 / /> ds 21128 5 serial_cs / /> yenta_socket 21248 1 / /> pcmcia_core 66188 3 serial_cs,ds,yenta_socket / /> / /> - ls -al /dev/mod* : / /> / /> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 22 21:37 /dev/modem -> /dev/cua4 / /> / /> / /> 2/ case of the Hayes Optima288 card (modem) : / /> / /> - more /var/log/messages under root login (not enough data with only / /> dmesg) : / /> / /> Nov 22 21:44:28 snidre cardmgr[2816]: socket 0: Hayes Optima 288 / /> Nov 22 21:44:29 snidre kernel: ttyS5 at I/O 0xd000 (irq = 9) is a 16450 / Here ttyS5 seems to get assigned. I wonder why dmesg does not show it. Is there really no mention of ttyS5 in dmesg? /> / /> - lsmod : / /> / /> serial_cs 11176 1 / /> ds 21128 5 serial_cs / /> yenta_socket 21248 1 / /> pcmcia_core 66188 3 serial_cs,ds,yenta_socket / /> / /> - ls -al /dev/mod* : / /> / /> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 22 21:44 /dev/modem -> /dev/cua5 / I do not think that /dev/cua5 is the good device. Try to make a link /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS5 instead, and try to talk to the modem (minicom should be OK, or dial with kppp) If this does not work, then your back at the problem that serial_cs does not read your card correctly. Sorry, in a rush, the car is leaving. HTH, Matt

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Problems compiling ivtv
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

I'm trying to compile the ivtv driver on my dual opteron with 2.6.5-7.111.5-smp If I edit the Makefile to have -march=opteron -mcpu=opteron, I get:- gcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -I/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-smp/build/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=opteron -mcpu=opteron -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -include /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-smp/build/include/linux/modversions.h -DNEW_I2C -c -o msp3400.o msp3400.c cc1: error: bad value (opteron) for -march= switch cc1: error: bad value (opteron) for -mcpu= switch make: *** [msp3400.o] Error 1 I note that /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-smp/build/include/linux/modversions.h doesn't exist. If I edit the Makefile to have -march=k8 -mcpu=k8, I get:- gcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -I/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-smp/build/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=k8 -mcpu=k8 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -include /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-smp/build/include/linux/modversions.h -DNEW_I2C -c -o msp3400.o msp3400.c<command line>:10323939:1: /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-smp/build/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:904, from /usr/include/linux/videodev.h:8, from msp3400.c:46: /usr/include/linux/fs.h: In function `file_accessed': /usr/include/linux/fs.h:977: error: `O_NOATIME' undeclared (first use in this function)/usr/include/linux/fs.h:977: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once/usr/include/linux/fs.h:977: error: for each function it appears in.) msp3400.c: In function `msp3400c_set_scart': msp3400.c:344: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c: In function `msp3400c_setmode': msp3400.c:408: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c: In function `msp3400c_setstereo': msp3400.c:481: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c: In function `msp3400c_restore_dfp': msp3400.c:609: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c: In function `autodetect_stereo': msp3400.c:637: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c: In function `watch_stereo': msp3400.c:737: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c: In function `msp3400c_thread': msp3400.c:756: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c:761: error: too few arguments to function `daemonize' msp3400.c:765: error: structure has no member named `sigmask_lock' msp3400.c:767: error: structure has no member named `sigmask_lock' msp3400.c: In function `msp3410d_thread': msp3400.c:1011: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c:1014: error: too few arguments to function `daemonize' msp3400.c:1018: error: structure has no member named `sigmask_lock' msp3400.c:1020: error: structure has no member named `sigmask_lock' msp3400.c: In function `msp_attach': msp3400.c:1282: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c:1333: warning: `MOD_INC_USE_COUNT' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/linux/module.h:516) msp3400.c: In function `msp_detach': msp3400.c:1357: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c:1383: warning: `MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/linux/module.h:528) msp3400.c: In function `msp_probe': msp3400.c:1390: warning: passing arg 3 of `i2c_probe' from incompatible pointer type msp3400.c: In function `msp_wake_thread': msp3400.c:1396: error: structure has no member named `data' msp3400.c: In function `msp_command': msp3400.c:1408: error: structure has no member named `data' make: *** [msp3400.o] Error 1 Can anyone suggest what needs to be done? Thanks. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

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