January 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

cross-compiling for ix86
by Arjen Runsink 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Hi, Does anyone in here know of a way to build rpms for ix86 machines? Or actually to setup a nice build environment? I am trying to build the openpkg rpms for kolab. But the only fast machine is and AMD64. So far I have not succeeded. BB, Arjen

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Re: [suse-amd64] Acroread 5.010-4.1 Broken
by Scott Leighton 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

On Sunday 23 January 2005 11:46 am, you wrote: > On Sunday 23 January 2005 14:32, Scott Leighton wrote: > > I should add that acroread 5.010-4.1 is working fine here on > > 9.2, no symptoms like you describe. > > Could you try > > http://myweb.absa.co.za/g.landry/uTube2.htm > > There is a link to a pdf right below the schematic picture. When I open > the link I get the problem. If I save the pdf as a file and open it, it > works fine. > > I tried deleting the prefs, no difference. I tried it both ways, from the link and after saving it. Works perfectly here both ways. Since you are having the issue only from the browser, perhaps the problem is in the configuration of the acroread plugin ? Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.8-24.10-default x86_64

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Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra
by rrpalma＠synopsis.ws 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Thanks Erich. What nVidia card do you use on your S2885? So I assume you recommend I upgrade the Tyan's BIOS to the latest version? Regards, ________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 email : rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws -----Erich Boleyn <erich(a)uruk.org> wrote: ----- To: Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com From: Erich Boleyn <erich(a)uruk.org> Date: 01/24/2005 06:39PM cc: rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws, Ken Siersma <siersmak(a)ekkinc.com>, suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com wrote: > The power supplies in these machines are 550W > > I can't give you any real definitive answer on 9.2, as I have just started > to try it out. However, everytime I have tried upgrading my BIOS, I run > into problems that make me drop back to v1.02 until I can get some time to > just work on this machine steadily to try and figure things out ... > > I've also got some font issues on 9.2 (even on the 32-bit version on a > Pentium4), possibly due to the move from XFree86 to Xorg in 9.2 ? I just > can't make the jump yet, until several little issues get worked out so that > my workstation will be usable on 9.2.... Hmm... I was just reading this thread. I have a Tyan 2885 (Thunder K8W) and 2882 (Thunder K8S Pro), with with 2 processors each, and at different times run with 4GB, 6GB, and 8GB. BIOS versions: -- Tyan 2885 required version 2.02 before the kernels and NVidia drivers just worked out of box. Earlier Suse Pro 9 kernels don't work with 1.X BIOSes and lots of RAM due to MTRR mapping problems. -- Tyan 2882 has always worked but I had at least the 2.02 version of it's BIOS (which is different from the Tyan 2885's versions BTW). With the caveat that for newer kernels I've been disabling the USB controller because of the memory conflict issue (I haven't tried to see if it works on current kernels, too lazy ;-), I have run (all 64-bit versions): -- Suse Pro 9 (should use at least the -193 service pack kernel), 9.1 (unpatched version would eventually crash with an X issue), and 9.2. -- Some SLES 8 & 9. SLES 8 worked in general but I wouldn't trust the unpatched compilers from SLES 8, I had problems with them. -- Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3. All with various kernel update versions. The "current" update versions for all the above as of a month or so ago were working OK except not even trying to use SLES 8 anymore since it was so early in the 64-bit Linux cycle. I work with a lot of different versions at work at AMD and recreationally at home. On the 2885 I have an NVidia card and have been using the NVidia drivers with few problems. The current drivers solved any I'd had. YMMV. -- Erich Stefan Boleyn http://www.uruk.org/ "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"

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Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra
by rrpalma＠synopsis.ws 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hello Kevin / Ken, Thanks for both of your replies. I'm only planning on having just 2 GB RAM. So I would assume any possible conflicts / problems are due to the version of the BIOS and the kernel version? Not any problems between the Tyan motherboard and the nVidia card? So I should not upgrade the BIOS if I want to use SuSE 9.2? BTW: What sise PSU yo have? Thank you VERY MUCH again... ________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 email : rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws -----Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com wrote: ----- To: Ken Siersma <siersmak(a)ekkinc.com> From: Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com Date: 01/24/2005 12:22PM cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra I have one of those in my office ( Tyan S2885, Nvidia 6800 Ultra). We are running the Tyan S2885/Nvidia combo with 16 Gb of memory in production, but we are still running Suse 9.0 and an older BIOS for the motherboard for production work: v1.02 BIOS SuSE 9.0 ( I am running the 2.4.21-193 or 2.4.21-243 kernel) Nvidia 1.0-6629 driver I have tried loading Suse 9.1 and 9.2 to get to the 2.6 kernel, but in the little bit of testing that I have been able to do, going to the new v2.02 BIOS for this board made the system unable to boot Suse 9.1, and had to do some contortions to get 9.2 to boot. Have been doing some testing this morning, and the v2.02 BIOS, Suse 9.2, Nvidia combo has been very unstable. Anytime I try to run my OpenGL testing program, either the X server locks up, or I get a screen full of garbage and have to reset the machine. Don't know if it is specific to Suse or not, but I may try Fedora to see if I have the same problems.... Kevin Gassiot Advanced Systems Group Visualization Systems Support Veritas DGC 10300 Town Park Dr. Houston, Texas 77072 832-351-8978 kevin_gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com Ken Siersma com> To suse-amd64(a)suse.com 01/24/2005 11:03 cc AM Subject Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws wrote: > >Hello, >Anybody tried the above combination, with a dual Opteron config? I'm >thinking about putting up a system based on Tyan S2885 (thunder K8W) and >the graphics card I like the most is the BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC. Any >ideas? >Thanks in advance for your help. > > >________________________________________ >Ricardo R Palma > >SYNOPSIS SA >Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 >email : rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws > >www.synopsis.ws > > > > If you are thinking about ever having 4 or more GB of RAM, I'd stay away from the Tyan S2885 - see my thread 'System memory missing - AGP card taking it?' -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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GIMP packages don't work with jpegs on 9.2
by Joel Wiramu Pauling 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

GIMP 2 on suse has problems opening jpegs which contain exif data in a certain form (I have problems with all pictures taken from my digimaster (sony) 4.2 megapixel cam. I get the jpeg plugin segfaulting every time I open a jpeg (old version does not do this) I have tried compiling from scratch and trying more recent apt versions. Other people on #gimp do not seem to have this problem. Anyone suggest a fix? (can provide backtrace/strace if requested + sample image that causes issue). As a workaround I have found that resizing/converting to png in a differnt program will fix the issue which lead me to beleive it's the exif data. I will try compiling without exif support tonight and see if that fixes it. Kind regards Joel W

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SerialATA disk
by Michaÿffffb3 Woÿffff9fniak 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hello world ;) Did anybody encounter any problems with installing SuSE 9.2 x86_64 on a system with a SerialATA HD? I have a Seagate Barracuda 120GB on SerialATA as my only disk, and SuSE fails to install (in yast I get a message that no disks had been found). I have tried normal, ACPI-less and failsafe installation modes with RAID Enabled, then Disabled in BIOS. I could not find any "Compatybility mode" or similar BIOS option though. sata_nv module loads nice and easy, but: ata1: no disks found ata2: ata failed to reply within 30sec (these are what I remembered - if those messages are not precise enough, I shall get the exact ones when I try to install SuSE again). The system: Athlon64 2800+ Gigabyte K8Triton 2x256 DDR400 GF FX5500 Seagate Barracuda 120GB SerialATA The disk is fine, as I have a WinXP installed and running on it; it's partitioned as follows: 20GB (20480MB) - NTFS (WinXP) ~100GB unallocated/unformatted - this is the space for GNU/Linux, as it is to be the main system. Thanks in advance Mike ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [suse-amd64] AMD 64, X.org and multihead
by Klaus Singvogel 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Markus Feilner wrote: > Hello List, > has anybody managed to get a ATI grafixcard with multihead support working on > suse 9.2 (X.org) on AMD 64? Sorry, but not me. > I'm close to surrender with my radeon 9000 and newest drivers. > My setup includes a DVI TFT display as primary and an analog TFT as secondary. > I followed the readme and the howto from ATI, (several times), but when > "startx" the primary display (dvi) stops immediately, syaing "entering sleep > mode". > IU managed to make the secondary display work, but only without dri and glx. > (videos are only blue, no 3D support) > In my logfile it says something like: > XFree86.0.log:(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not > found) You cannot run drivers developed by NVIDIA with ATI cards. Please check your X.org configuration and remove those NVIDIA drivers. > which is funny, because it's a radeon - or is this a misunderstanding ? I looks like a bug. Maybe you run Yast Online Update and selected fetchnvidia.sh once? > but X stops wiith various configurations because of missing screens or > displays - in fact I never managed to get a working config with the > fglrxconfig tool, I always had to fix XF86Config by hand. > > (apart from the typo bug Keyboard->keyboard in the driver line) :-( > > any ideas/hints? Have a closer look here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse92/x86_64/fglrx/8.… or here: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html to get x86_64 supported drivers for ATI cards. > I would also appreciate hints about working multihead configurations with > other grafixcards on AMD64 platform, because i really like this hardware, but > I feel very sad about the bad quality of ATI drivers ... or my incapability > to make them work properly. > Thanks! Have a look at this SDB article, which gives you first hints about dualhead configuration: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2001/01/pohletz_matroxg450.html Note: This is a Matrox G450 configuration, and either that it is (old) XFree86 configuration. But XF86 doesn't differ much from X.org configuration. Best regards, Klaus. -- Klaus Singvogel SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 E-Mail: Klaus.Singvogel(a)SuSE.de 90409 Nuernberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740530 Germany GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D 1994-06-27

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System memory missing - AGP card taking it?
by Ken Siersma 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Sorry if this is not specifically an X86-64 question. I have a Dual Opteron 250 with 4 GB of RAM with an NVIDIA QuadroFX 1100 card, with Suse 9.1 X86-64 installed with updates (kernel version 2.5.5-7.111.19-smp). The BIOS recognizes all 4 GB of RAM, but the OS only sees 3.26GB. I've been told this is because the video card is taking up system memory. But could it really be taking up this much? Changing the AGP aperture size in the BIOS does affect how much RAM is occupied by the video card. Currently it is set to 32 MB. If I set it to the maximum of 512 MB, a measly 2.4GB are available. I also thought this was strange - if I set the AGP aperture to 32 MB, and then try 1, 2, 3, and 4 GB, I see different percentages of system memory being unavailable. Here's what I see: 1 GB -> 91.8% 2 GB -> 95.2% 3 GB -> 96.4% 4 GB -> 81.5% Is their anything I can do in Suse to give me back more of my system RAM? Seems like that last GB was a waste of money... Thanks for any help you can offer. Ken

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RE: [suse-amd64] nforce 250 - nvidia's sata controller
by Ronald Lau 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

This post is just for anyones info incase they are interested. No smart ass coments about how much of a newbie I am. As I said, SuSE 9.2 cannot find the SATA HD I have in this box. I tried everyones suggestions. (there doesn't seem to be any way to change to legacy mode in the bios. [phoenix V6.00PG]) It does however, see the network adapter. I put in a 9.1 netowrk install CD, and it DOES see the SATA HD, but not the network adaper. And, stragely enough, it found it without the nvidia sata module loaded. Only the Generic Mid-Level SCSI Driver, SCSI disk driver, and SCSI CDROM drivers were loaded. I tried unloading the nv_sata and all the scsi modules, and reloading only the scsi ones, but that didn't work. Other stuff is that the shuttle sn85g4 V3 has one of thoes 8 in one memory card readers. SuSE 9.2 maps them to as SCSI drives. SuSE 9.2 does not. )I already tried installing 9.2 with it disconnected.) In 9.2, I looked at the kernel output (virt terminal 4) and when I load and unload the sata_nv (or was it nv_sata), the module loads, but it never finds the HD. from nv forum advice, I also DL the Ubuntu distro, and it found the HD no problem, but I didn;t install it because I don't know enough about it. Anyway, I guess I'll just put suse 9.1 32bit on it, since I need a working network to install the 64bit version from FTP. Really, whats the deal with no CD's for 64 bit? -----Original Message----- From: Ron Lau To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Sent: 1/13/2005 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] nforce 250 - nvidia's sata controller Importance: Low I tried the acpi off thing, still no SATA HD found. I tried to install suse 9.2 manually, and loaded the sata_nv module. YaST still did not see the SATA HD. Some other info, in case anyone cares... The HD already has win2k pro, and a fully functional suse 9.1amd64 on it, from when it was installed in the original shuttle that had a silicon image sata controller. I can still get grub up, but when I select suse 9.1, I get a /dev/sda not found error. This motherboard/chipset is so new that Shuttle's website doesn't even mention it, and the manuals that came with it are for the old nforce3 150 chipsets. On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:57 -0600, Doug B wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 07:26 pm, Ronald Lau wrote: > > I tried to install 9.2 on a Shuttle sn85g4 V3: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=56-101-462& > >depa=0 > > > > which replaced the silicon image sata controller with nvidia's own. > > > > Everything is picked up except for the SATA hard drive. > > > > Is there even a linux driver for the nvidia sata controller? > > > > nVidia has nForce drivers as well as video drivers at their website, but > I didn't need them for my nForce 250 chipset. I did need a bios > upgrade and installed with acpi disabled. You might try no acpi first, > then bios upgrade, then nVidias drivers if the other options fail. > > Doug -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra
by rrpalma＠synopsis.ws 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hello, Anybody tried the above combination, with a dual Opteron config? I'm thinking about putting up a system based on Tyan S2885 (thunder K8W) and the graphics card I like the most is the BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. ________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 email : rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws

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