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Re: [suse-amd64] Mystery crashes
by David Pyke 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Nevermind, I'm stupid... On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:41, David Pyke wrote: > Can anyone tell me why hdparm -T /dev/md0 would give me: > > /dev/md0: > read() hit EOF - device too small > > I have 2 gig of memory on a SK8N board... > > > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 14:57, Mark Horton wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't have a solution, but I was wondering about your > > DDR400 with a 242 CPU. My understanding is that this would run at > > DDR333. Do you have any idea if you are getting DDR400 speed? I'm not > > even sure how to determine this. I have used hdparm -T for some sort of > > rough estimate. I'd be curious what your results are. > > > > Here's mine with a dual 240 DDR333 system: > > > > hdparm -T /dev/md0 > > > > /dev/md0: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 2680 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1339.33 MB/sec > > > > This result is fairly average for my system... sometimes its lower > > sometimes its higher. > > > > Mark > > > > > > Eugene de Villiers wrote: > > > My dual opteron 242 K8W thunder with 4Gb of DDR400 Reg ECC has been > > > running Suse 9.0 for a couple of weeks now. > > > Everything seems to be working fine and memtest showed no problems. > > > > > > Unfortunately, every few days or so (it has happened 3 times now), the > > > system just freezes up, and I mean completely. No logins, no escapes, no > > > keyboard or mouse response at all. > > > It still responds to pings though, which is strange since no other > > > remote operations are successful. > > > > > > There are no messages in the logs (at least the ones I've checked), so I > > > assume its probably hardware related. Any advice/checks I can try? > > > > > > Its not debilitating since, but it sure is worrisome. > > > > > > Eugene > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > G-string or thermal underwear? Find out at MSN Weather! > > > http://www.msn.co.za/weather/ > > > > > > -- ___________________ We stopped striving to be unique when politically correct people inadvertently made "special" a bad thing.

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Re: [suse-amd64] Mystery crashes
by Eugene de Villiers 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hmm, this sounds reasonable. I am currently using the 0.01b beta BIOS, which is quite old. I am however a tad leery to flash again, since last time I did it my root mount point was deleted with disasterous consequences. Has anybody updates to the 2885 v1.02 bios for the K8W? Does it solve the memory hole problem from pre 0.01b? More importantly, did it delete your mount points? >From: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de> >To: "Eugene de Villiers" <edevilliers(a)hotmail.com> >CC: suse-amd64(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Mystery crashes >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:15:44 +0100 > >"Eugene de Villiers" <edevilliers(a)hotmail.com> writes: > > > My dual opteron 242 K8W thunder with 4Gb of DDR400 Reg ECC has been > > running Suse 9.0 for a couple of weeks now. > > Everything seems to be working fine and memtest showed no problems. > > > > Unfortunately, every few days or so (it has happened 3 times now), the > > system just freezes up, and I mean completely. No logins, no escapes, > > no keyboard or mouse response at all. > > It still responds to pings though, which is strange since no other > > remote operations are successful. > > > > There are no messages in the logs (at least the ones I've checked), so > > I assume its probably hardware related. Any advice/checks I can try? > >Just the obvious thing: Do you run the latest BIOS? > >Andreas >-- > Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj > SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 ><< attach3 >> _________________________________________________________________ Get accurate, multi-day weather forecasts for your area at MSN Weather! http://www.msn.co.za/weather/

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Re: [suse-amd64] Installation of Suse 9 for AMD64
by francisco.vegas＠ksb.com 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hy, I didn´t got any replies to my problem ... Is anyone aware of my problem ? I think I'am not too far from the solution but I'am still sticking in step three ( look below ) Any comments will be appreciated ... Regards Francisco -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hy, >> I'am back to report my experiences by installing Suse 9 AMD64 on >> my K8V deluxe with two 1614c drives system ... >What exactly are you doing? With which disk are you booting? Per first, I'am booting from the ISO CD ... OK, a little summary from my experiences from the last few weeks ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I booted with the Original Suse DVD ... Result: No installation possible with SATA Decision: Prepare the new ISO CD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. I booted with the new ISO CD with idle=poll Result: I achieved YAST but no recognition of SATA Decision: Try this rcLinux menu and select SATA driver -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. I select the VIA SATA Driver from rcLinux and boot Result: Now YAST did recognize my drives, but going on in the installation process with the SUSE proposal is not possible. Also manual config of the drive leads to the same message. This message indicates, that there is a modification needed before the install process can go on ... Decision: Any ideas ... ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don´t know if the problem is in partitioning my drive. As I formerly said: I've got two Samsung Spinpoint 1614c 160 GB SATA drives. Both are partitioned in each two partitions. C: WinXP NTFS ~75 GB F: empty FAT32 ~75 GB G: empty FAT32 ~75 GB H: empty FAT32 ~75 GB As you may see, I obviously have no problem in reserving a whole drive for Linux. I also have no technical explanation, but I think changing the partition data will not solve my problem ... What do you think ? Any comments will be appreciated !!!!! Regards Francisco

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SATA works as hde under 2.6
by Mike Rosing 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hello world, I have successfully compiled 2.6.3 kernel with via82cxxx driver and the absolute minimum scsi the menuconfig will let me get away with (seems to need it for booting...) and I got yast to partition and format my SATA drive as hde1 and hde2. Under the 2.4 kernel, the serial sata would not work with 3 drives attached, and it would hang with the Patch-CD when I tried to load serial sata drivers. It's been a frustrating 3 weeks getting first Mandrake and then SuSE to work with an FIC k8-800t motherboard. I reported before I got nothing but a black screen for failure. I fixed that by turning on the logo and VGA support during boot, and then I read the /var/log/boot.msg file to figure out where I was going wrong with other things. I also stupidly had placed Reiserfs as a module, but changing that to built in to the kernel allowed the system to full boot. So now I've got a few minor things to fix, but it looks like I now have a fully functional AMD64 linux system ready to write code on using some nice fast sata drives. What is interesting is that the bios reports the sata connectors as being able to talk to only one drive each, but the linux driver reports looking for 2 drives on each connector. So sata-0 is ide2 and has hde and hdf, and sata-1 is ide3 with hdg and hdh. I've only got one drive, so it's hde. And it works, so I'm happy now!!! Patience, persistance, truth, Dr. mike

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RE: [suse-amd64] *** All of mmx dependent parts will be disabled *** *** All of sse mmx dependent parts will be disabled ***
by richard.brunner＠amd.com 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

MMX, 3dNow!, x87, SSE, SSE2 are all available on AMD64 CPUs. Little Blue men from Intel are not ;-) ] -Rich ... ] AMD Fellow ] richard.brunner at amd com > -----Original Message----- > From: David Liontooth [mailto:liontooth@cogweb.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:36 AM > To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com > Subject: [suse-amd64] *** All of mmx dependent parts will be > disabled *** *** All of sse mmx dependent parts will be disabled *** > > > I got transcode compiled (thanks Philipp) and it works fine > -- but slow. > The two 1.4GHz Opterons crank out a fps just barely above a single > 1.2GHz P4 (6 fps vs 5). How disappointing! > > I notice that optimizing flags are disabled: > > *** All of mmx dependent parts will be disabled *** > *** All of sse dependent parts will be disabled *** > > This is the output from transcode configure. > > Are these functions not present in the AMD64 CPU? > > Cheers, > David > > > -- > Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe > For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com > >

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Can 9.0-PatchCD.iso be used to install without DVD?
by BARON, JEFFREY (SBCSI) 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Hello All, I've not seen this question answered yet. I was wondering if it's possible to use the 9.0-PatchCD.iso to install via FTP or some other method, like burning everything under /pub/suse/x86_64/9.0/ to DVD? Thanks in advance.

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Re: [suse-amd64] FSC D1607 sound / network problems
by Juergen Schiewe 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Am Sonntag, 22. Februar 2004 17:12 schrieb Jan Haul: > On my D1607, the sound does not work as well - I "solved" the problem by > installing a soundblaster gathering dust, planning to look into it when > I have nothing better to do (fat chance!) > > The on-board Ethernet does not work, at least with the stock SuSE > kernel. The driver loads, but no reliable connection. Again, an Ethernet > card got me up and running. Sounds great - and based on the support we can expect from FSC: > für Linux leisten wir leider keinen Support. > > Mit freundlichen Gruessen > > ### ##### > -- > Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH > Technischer Support there is more to come. tks for the info Juergen

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Re: [suse-amd64] Compiling NVIDIA driver on AMD64
by Andreas Jaeger 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Juergen Schiewe <juergen.schiewe(a)epost.de> writes: > Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2004 14:08 schrieben Sie: >> This does not look right. You're running a 32-bit kernel! >> You need the 64-bit SUSE Linux 9.0, > > Hmm. Sure ? > uname -a > Linux linux 2.4.21-166-athlon #1 Thu Dec 18 18:24:05 UTC 2003 i686 athlon i386 This is a 32-bit kernel. It might run on AMD64, but you're trying to compile the 64-bit Nvidia module A 64-bit kernel should have something like (this is my self-compiled kernel): $ uname -a Linux gromit 2.4.21-202-default #1 Fri Feb 20 08:12:57 UTC 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > GNU/Linux > I installed from the SUSE 9 prof upgrade DVD. Which is a 32-bit product that runs fine on AMD64 but does not take full advantage of the architecture, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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npower network card
by stuart＠idelta.co.uk 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

I've just installed and everything is OK except YAST is not recognising the network card. It's reported in hardware config - network card - driver - ... - modprobe nvnet It's in a shuttle xpc Does this mean I have to download the nforce drivers from the nvidia site and compile? Any advice appreciated... S

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Compiling NVIDIA driver on AMD64
by Juergen Schiewe 21 Feb '04

21 Feb '04

I tried to follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/nvidia/ nvidia-gfx-AMD64-HOWTO.txt but in phase 4 when compiling the patched kernel modules I get the following compiler error: cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -mcmodel=kernel -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=4499 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNV_64_BITS -DNVCPU_X86_64 -mno-red-zone -DREMAP_PAGE_RANGE_4 -I. -I/lib/modules/2.4.21-166-athlon/build/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c cc1: error: code model `kernel' not supported in the 32 bit mode make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 options missing, wrong compiler, if the latter where do i get an AMD64 version of GCC - should I bootstrap ? any pointers welcome Juergen

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