May 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 9.1 on ftp sites (and mirrors)
by Milan Gabor 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi! Does anyone know, when can we expect SuSE 9.1 will be available on ftp sites? Last info was on 22.4.2004 that ftp version will be published in few days. MIlan

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S-ATA 3114, SuSE 9.0 and more than 2 disks
by Rainer Koenig 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi, actually I'm testing S-ATA support on a CELSIUS V810 dual opteron workstation with several distributions. Now it came out, that SuSE 9.1 works very nice, but SuSE 9.0 dies when more than 2 S-ATA disks are attached to the Silicon Image 3114 controller. The differences I found in the kernel are: SuSE 9.0: Kernel 2.4.21-215-smp with sata-sil module version 0.52 SuSE 9.1: Kernel 2.6.5-52-smp with sata-sil module version 0.54 So I guess the problem is caused by "features" in the older version of the sata_sil module. I tried to just copy the newer to the place of the older and recompile the 2.4.21-215 kernel with that, but its not that simple. Are there any intentions from SuSE to fix that bug and provide an updated 2.4.21 kernel for the SuSE 9.0 for AMD64 or do I have to practise kernel hacking on my own? :-) Regards Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Fujitsu-Siemens VP BC E SW OS Phone: +49-821-804-3321 Fax: +49-821-804-2131

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video Player (Xine or MPlayer)
by Tim Oliver Wagner 09 May '04

09 May '04

Hi List, I tried to compile and install the newest packages of Xine and MPlayer. In both cases I had some Errors. Did someone installed Xine or MPlayer with 64 bit processor with success? If so, wich version? I hope someone can help me. tia OLI PS: I need to watch dvds and avis. dvdcss, ... are no problem to compile and install ... but the kaffeine from SuSE will not play dvds ... :-(

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Dual-Opteron w/ 8GB RAM boot problem
by Bryan Stillwell 08 May '04

08 May '04

I installed SuSE 9.0 for x86_64 on the following box but I'm having boot problems when the machine is loaded with 8GB of RAM: Dual Opteron 248 8GB RAM (in 8 1GB sticks) Tyan K8W (S2885) - BIOS Rev 1.02 Adaptec 29320 If I take out half the RAM so that I only have 4GB total in the system, everything works fine. However, if the full 8GB are in I get somewhat random errors (memory corruption?): Run 1: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). linuxrc[12]: segfault at 00000000ffffff99 rip 000000000040c428 rsp 0000007fbffff860 error 6 VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or 08:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Run 2: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 crc errorVFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or 08:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Run 3: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU1, eip ffffffff8012423c, registers: CPU 1 Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8012423c>[{.text.lock.fork+27} RSP: 0000:00000100ca8f1d58 EFLAGS: 00000086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000101ffd11e38 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000100ca8f1d68 RDI: 00000101ffd11e40 RBP: 00000100ca8f0000 R08: ffffffff803c7b00 R09: 00000101ffd12e00 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000080000000 R12: 00000101ffd11e40 R13: 00000100ca8f1d68 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff804bbb00(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000ca902000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=100ca8f1000) Stack: 00000100ca8f1d58 0000000000000000 Call Trace: Code: f3 90 7f f9 e9 e7 e5 ff ff 80 3f 00 f3 90 7e f9 e9 18 e6 ff console shuts up ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've tried installing on a Rioworks Arima HDAMA machine with 8GB RAM and the same SCSI card, and it worked fine. So I'm thinking that there's a driver issue with the Tyan board. BTW, I have a sister machine with the same Tyan board, and it also experiences the same problem. Bryan -- Aspen Systems, Inc. | http://www.aspsys.com/ Production Engineer | Phone: (303)431-4606 bryans(a)aspsys.com | Fax: (303)431-7196

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dpt_i2o with 2.6.4 kernel ?
by Oliver Gerstlauer 08 May '04

08 May '04

Hi, we have Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S PRO with an Adaptec 2015S RAID controller installed. Up to now we run the SUSE 9.0 with a self compiled dpt_i20 driver version dpt_i2o-2.5.0-2301 (the link was already posted in this mailing list). We attached a 500GB RAID 5 and used that the last 5 months without any problems. Now we try to upgrade (reinstall) the machine with SUSE 9.1 kernel 2.6.4-54.3. The system is installed on a IDE hard drive and we also successfully using a SATA drive with the Sil3114 controller (no raid). Has anybody a dpt_i2o module version that compiles with the kernel 2.6.4 that we can try out. We found a zip file on the net dpt_i2o-2.5.0-2331.tgz but there is the dpt_i2o.c file missing. Oli

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Does SuSE 9.1 Professional AMD64 support 4-way opteron platforms?
by Adrian Wu 08 May '04

08 May '04

Hi all, Just wondering if we can run 9.1 Prof on a 4-way box. Have anyone actually tried it? Thanks, adrian

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Re: [suse-amd64] Further adventures
by chu＠tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov 07 May '04

07 May '04

Hi Folks, I got no replies to my previous question, so I tried a few things on my own, and fortunately did not burn anything up. I looked at /proc/modules to see what there was when the system first boots up, and again after I used YAST to load what it thinks are the necessary modules to support the Adaptec 29160 HBA. Funny thing is YAST knows that the correct module is aic7xxx, but for some reason it is not automatically loaded on boot up. Other modules that YAST loads ar st, sg, and I think sr_mod. I first modified /etc/modules.conf to change the line alias scsi_hostadapter off to alias scsi_hostadapter on This got the system to load the st, sg, and sr_mod automatically on startup, but still no aic7xxx. I figured out the modprobe command that I need to run, and created a file in /etc/init.d to run it to install the aic7xxx module. I created a link in /etc/init.d/bootd to start it as early in the boot as possible. Now everything seems to be OK on startup; the modules are loaded so the by the time init gets to fscking the files in /etc/fstab, they are all accessible. I still don't understand why I had to do this, and any information on this would be greatly appreciated. eyc

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9.1 - amd64 - sata - no DVD
by Ron Lau 07 May '04

07 May '04

CRAP! I have this cool shuttle pc, with an sata hd, and a CD-R, but no DVD drive. I have been waiting patiently for a linux distro that supports silicon image's SATA and is for AMD64 systems, and the live 9.1 CD proved suse is it! GREAT! but the amd64 stuff is on a single DVD only!!!!!! Is there a place I can download CD isos for 9.1 AMD64? If not, why not? Who is the all knowing sage that determined you can't have an AMD64 pc with out a DVD? PLEASE HELP!!!!! p.s. I can hook my pc into a network and install the AMD64 version from there, but I need a CD to boot from cause I don't have a floppy drive, although I can hook one up if I had to.

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megaraid with 8GB ram
by Mark Horton 07 May '04

07 May '04

I wanted to confirm something I saw earlier. I cannot boot with 8GB of ram using the 'megaraid' driver. I switched to the 'megaraid2' driver and it boots up fine. This is reproducible by simply going into yast and setting the hard disk controller module to 'megaraid'. Booting will then fail. I can reboot with kernel option 'maxcpus=0' to get back into the system and then change the driver back to 'megaraid2'. I have no problem using the megaraid2 driver so this isn't a complaint. My system is fast and stable and overall I'm very pleased. I mention this primarily because I noticed the 9.0 installer by default uses the 'megaraid' driver, not 'megaraid2'. I'm using suse pro 9.0. Mark

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Re: [suse-amd64] Max FS size?
by Andi Kleen 07 May '04

07 May '04

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:01:05PM +0200, Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com wrote: > This is the issue that I was referring to.... Was there a bug in parted > with partitions (not filesystems.... partitions on disk) greater than 1 TB > ? Ah yes, I forgot the parted issue. But when parted does not work you can always use fdisk to create your partitions. -Andi

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