February 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Playing DVDs on AMD64 system
by larry_prikockis＠natureserve.org 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Has anyone managed to get any DVD playing software running properly under SuSE 9 for the AMD64? I've got an ASUS K8V Deluxe MB and an NVIDIA GF5200FX video card, for what that's worth. I've been trying, with little success, to compile a working version of the 'Ogle' DVD player, but am running into all sorts of dependency issues with RPMs, and missing library issues compiling from source. If someone else has gotten this working, I'd be interested in hearing exactly what RPMs/source files you used and what steps you followed. Thanks in advance ----------------------------------------- Real programmers confuse Christmas and Halloween because DEC 25 = OCT 31

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memtest86+ to be included on future amd64 suse linux products?
by Andreas Bittner 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

hello there, i seem to have some bit errors in one of my memory modules on an asus k8v-d with two corsair cmx512-3200ll (xms3205v1.2) ddr 400mhz modules. memtest86 (on the suse linux 9.0) x86 media didnt recognize the board/hardware, but still reported the same failures, as the newer memtest86+ from http://www.memtest.org/ the memory module displays errors in test #5 at about 107mb and 123mb. the other module passes the tests just fine. the memtest86+ also supports the x86 platform, and correctly displays chipset and hardware information of the newer boards and amd64 platform. maybe suse will consider to include this into their amd64 products like they have the older memtest86 3.0 on their suse linux 9.0 for x86 media. thanks and cheers, andy

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via SATA
by kevin＠trotmans.com 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Have an Albatron with Via Southbridge Sata onboard. Install goes fine if I load sata_via mod and s98klin mod, but on reboot it apparently doesn't add the manually loaded mods to the conf cause it panics trying to mount the root disk (/dev/sda1 - rieser) and I never see anything about the SATA drive. I know there must be a kernel line for this, but I have no clue what it might be. Thankx.

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Rtl 8169 (msi k8t800 neo onboard NIC)
by Tom Keresztes 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Does rtl 8169 have support in suse 9.0 ? As I have seen, 2.6 series kernel have support for it, and I had problems with my linksys nic (ver4, with tulip driver) using ppp (only tested with suse 8.2 beta) Tom#

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kylix on suse9/amd64
by detlef oertel 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Hello, My kylix IDE is running on my suse9/amd64, but I always get a error if I compile a program with kylix. The error is: [Fehler] Falsches Dateiformat: libX11.so.6 possible english translation: [Error] wrong file format: libX11.so.6 I installed kylix with linux32 setup.sh and i start kylix with linux32 startdelphi my system is a suse9/amd64 kernel 2.4.21-201-default any hint for me ? thank you detlef oertel

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SATA problem
by David Green 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hi, I've tried installing Suse on my machine but it can't see the hard disk (SATA, Promise RAID controller) and understand that only Kernel 2.6 supports this. Since I can't install Linux I can't compile a new Kernel to see the disk drive (I've never compiled a Kernel before so would all be a bit of a learning curve anyway). I've considered buying a second EIDE hard disk and using this for Linux instead but still want to be able to boot into WinXP/2000 (I'm a developer and need all 3 systems) on the SATA drive. Can I do this by (say) creating a boot CD-ROM for Suse to load from, or somehow installing a boot loader on the EIDE drive that boots to the SATA drive. How would I go about doing this? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, David

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(online) Upgrade from 8.2 -> 9.0
by Kees Hoekzema 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hello list, Recently our opteron crashed and lost its filesystem, so i decided to install suse 9.0 instead of the old 8.2 it was still running. Unfortunatly only an 8.2 cd could boot the system, all the 9.0 boot-cd's hung at one point or another. So I decided to do a network install (i shared the 9.0 dvd with ftp from my laptop). Because i wanted to install 9.0 i pointed the installer to the ftp containing the 9.0 dvd. All went well, and the system is working fine again. But i cant use the online update. It is saying i'm running a 8.2 installation, so i used yast to upgrade it to 9.0 (from the same location as from where i installed it). This went well again, but still you says that im running a 8.2 install and tries to look for updates in the wrong ftp-dir. How do I tell yast that im running a 9.0 install and make him look in the right directory. -kees

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powernow_k8: Unknown parameter `" "'
by Henk Slager 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hi all, I am using an ASUS K8V Deluxe with 1005 BIOS, Cool 'n' Quiet enabled and running SuSE 9.0. It works well with kernel 2.4.21-149-default. However, using the same sysconfig files and the 2.6.3 kernel the above error is seen when running dmesg. A part from my .config file: # # CPU Frequency scaling # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_PROC_INTF=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_24_API=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y # # CPUFreq processor drivers # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8=m If I do 'modprobe powernow-k8' , the extra dmesg output is: powernow-k8: Found AMD64 processor supporting PowerNow (version 1.00.08a) powernow-k8: voltage stable in 100 usec, ramp voltage offset: 2, isochronous relief time: 3, maximum voltage step: 0 powernow-k8: pll lock time: 0x2, maxfid 0xc (2000 MHz), maxvid 0x0 powernow-k8: fid 0 invalid : 0x0 I've played with the config settings and looking into the 2.4.21 .config files but this is the best I can get. Does anybody know what is wrong here ? Henk.

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Boot from MD RAID possible?
by M. Ranjit Mathews 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

On Jan 22 2004, Andi Kleen wrote: The VIA and most other SATA RAID controllers are really software RAID. Linux doesn't usually support the format used by the Windows driver, but you can run the normal linux software MD RAID which works just fine. The few real SATA RAID controllers like 3ware are supported. If one uses MD RAID, would one be able to mirror the boot partition? Is it possible to create multiple MD RAIDs on 1 pair of disks such as separate RAID1s for /boot, / and an LVM vg and a RAID0 /space filesystem?

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enable the IOMMU
by Milan Gabor 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

HI! I have mptherboard from MSI K8T Master2 and I noticed, that booting up kernel writes this out: Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup Where can I find option to enable IOMMU. I tried to find it in BIOS settings, but I cannot find it. Any hint where is it hidden? MIlan

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