March 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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Dvdauthor problems...
by Larry_Prikockis 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Has anyone else had success using the dvdauthor program (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net) to create dvd menus? My efforts keep failing with the spumux program (part of dvdauthor) failing with: INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8 INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8 ERR: Cannot convert UTF8 string 'buttonsone.png': Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character I've tried every variation of setting the Locale to UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, etc but no luck... Using all the same software on a older AMD computer running a 32-bit version of linux, I have no problems... I don't know a lot about character encodings, so I'm a bit lost here and am hoping someone else with an AMD64 has gotten these programs working with SuSE linux. For what it's worth, I've tracked down the portion of the code that fails (and produces the above error) to be related to a call to the 'iconv' program. Any clues, hints, virtual kicks-to-the-head, etc would be appreciated.... Larry Prikockis

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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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Opteron Board preference ....
by William A. Mahaffey III 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

.... I am getting close to trying to build an Opteron based machine as a compute node on my LAN, set up to run w/o monitor, keybd, mouse, & not a file server, just a (fast) CPU & lots of RAM. I have narrowed down to either ASUS SK8V or TYAN Tomcat K8S (both available @ newegg.com). Does anyone have any strong (preferably firsthand :-)) opinions, yea or nay, about either of these boards ? Thanks in advance.

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Nvidia AMD64 1.0-5332 trouble
by Jeroen Leijen 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Has anyone got X running using the Nvidia AMD64 1.0-5332 drivers? I compiled and installed the drivers according the instructions as supplied by nvidia. On my system (suse 9.0, k_deflt 2.4.21.201.x86_64, msi k8t neo fisr, athlon 64 3000, msi geforce fx5200) sax2 shows only a blank screen. Thanks Jeroen Amsterdam

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dvd+rw-tools vs. SLES*/AMD64
by Stephen Williams 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

OK, got my fnacy new DVD writer, and I'm able to mount CD-ROMS on it, and I can (miraculously) play DVD videos using xine. But I'm trying to get dvd+rw-tools to run, to no avail. Things like dvd+rw-mediainfo and dvd+rw-format seem to work, but when I try to write a simple ISO9660 image with growisofs it ends with an I/O error message. The long list of pointer/integer size warnings when compiling the tools did not give me warm fuzzies. Has this worked for anybody on an AMD64? Details: /usr/local/bin/dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/cdrecorder INQUIRY: [SONY ][DVD RW DRU-530A ][1.0d] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 14h, DVD-RW Sequential Media ID: SONY000000U9 GET PERFORMANCE: Speed Descriptor#0: 00/256047 Reading(a)4.0x Writing(a)1.0x READ DVD STRUCTURE[#10h]: Media Book Type: 32h, DVD-RW book [revision 2] Legacy lead-out at: 2298496*2KB=4707319808 READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: 32h, DVD-RW book [revision 2] Last border-out at: 2298496*2KB=4707319808 READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: complete Number of Sessions: 1 State of Last Session: complete Number of Tracks: 1 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: complete Track Start Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 0*2KB Track Size: 256048*2KB FABRICATED TOC: Track#1 : 14@0 Track#AA : 14@256048 Multi-session Info: #1@0 -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at XXXXXXXXXX But I have promises to keep, http://www.XXXXXXXXXX and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."

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[suse-amd64] SATA on SLES8
by Black, Alain 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I am getting the following entries in the /var/log/messages file. The entries are in reference to my 12 port 3Ware SATA RAID card. I tried a 11 disk RAID set (with one hot spare) which I've been told is not supported with the kernel provided with SLES8. I've moved to smaller RAID sets, but the system will still hang after writing more than 8GB to the RAID sets. Please let me know if I have not provided enough information for this to make sense. Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: INFO: Initialization started: Unit #5. Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ---------- Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.21-207-smp Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: Loaded 14963 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.21-207-smp. Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.21. Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: Symbol #nls_iso8859-1, value a013c000 Mar 31 08:02:10 bsiarc1 kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry. Mar 31 08:03:22 bsiarc1 kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: ERROR: Drive error: Port #5. Mar 31 08:03:22 bsiarc1 kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING: Sector repair occurred: Port #5. Mar 31 08:03:32 bsiarc1 kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: ERROR: Drive error: Port #5. Mar 31 08:03:32 bsiarc1 kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING: Sector repair occurred: Port #5. Mar 31 08:03:41 bsiarc1 kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: ERROR: Drive error: Port #5. Mar 31 08:03:41 bsiarc1 kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING: Sector repair occurred: Port #5. -Alain.

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Kernel for Vmware on x64
by gareths.rees 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

I was wanting to run vmware workstation 4 on my SUSE 9.0 x86 box, what kernel should I be running? - Gareth

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SCSI problem on Tyan Thunder 2882
by Arno Seitzinger 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Hi NG, I have a problem with a 4 disk raid0 on a dual opteron tyan board. When copying large files, the kernel reports 'scsi0 transmission error detected' Where do I start sorting out the problems? Software or hardware problem? The board is a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882, the drives are Fujitsu MAS3367NP. OS is Suse Linux 9.0 64bit The scsi controller is an on board aic7902w dual channel u320 scsi controller. In the bios, I enabled the termination. All 4 drives are connected to the scsi-a connector, there is a termination board at the last drive and the jumper on the drive is set to provide terminal power I placed the complete error messages at www.lucienet.de/scsiprob.txt Any help will be appreciated Arno

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Online update signature check failure
by Michael Madore 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to run the online update for SuSE 9.0 professional: Signature check for patch info file failed. Cannot load patch information. Patch: fetchmstfonts-3 I get the same result from all the mirrors I've tried, as well as the SuSE server. I also tried running the update from a local directory from which I removed the fetchmstfonts patch file. Yast2 then gives the same error message about the lsh package. Mike

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