October 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Headless initial booting
by Pierre Patino 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hello everyone I'm looking into the possibility of building a headless amd64 box. Said box would have its own hard disk and communicate to the outside world via Ethernet. Question: How would I configure it initially? Could it boot off a windows box the first time and then suck up an entire image from the windows system, format the hard drive and put the image there for future booting? Has anybody attempted this? Cheers

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RE: [suse-amd64] System slow after upgrade to 10...
by Scott, John 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

#-----Original Message----- #From: Kyle [mailto:doctorwhite@verizon.net] #Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:36 AM #To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com #Subject: [suse-amd64] System slow after upgrade to 10... # #Hello, # # I recently upgraded to OpenSuse 10 and my system is running very #slow. I cannot figure out why. I checked the processes with top and #did not see anything out of the ordinary or any processes #using 100% CPU #usage. Typing is very slow, startup is slow etc...what should I check? # #System: Acer Ferrari 4005 #AMD64 Turion #1 gb mem ddr400 #100 gb 5400 rpm hdd #etc... # #Kyle # I've got an HP nx6125 with the Turion chipset, 1GB ram, and have noticed the same thing. I can't really state the whole box is slow, just the some of the X related stuff. These are slow, but tolerable only because the graphics look good. I haven't had a chance to dig around yet (it's only been up a couple of days). So, I'm going to hazard a guess about a driver (or drivers) being an issue. Specualtion: it might be the driver for the ATI X300 since what I'm experiencing is gui related. I've seen complaints about the newer ATI cards/chipsets and Linux on various lists. I'll have a chance to check it out tonight. If it turns out to be the ATI, this'll be the first and last thing I buy with an ATI if it isn't easily fixed. John

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System slow after upgrade to 10...
by Kyle 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hello, I recently upgraded to OpenSuse 10 and my system is running very slow. I cannot figure out why. I checked the processes with top and did not see anything out of the ordinary or any processes using 100% CPU usage. Typing is very slow, startup is slow etc...what should I check? System: Acer Ferrari 4005 AMD64 Turion 1 gb mem ddr400 100 gb 5400 rpm hdd etc... Kyle

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Trouble installing SLES 9 on Tyan 2895
by Ricardo R Palma 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hello, We're trying to configure a K8WE / 2895, SCSI version, to run SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 in 32 bits (not 64). 1. First thing we did was upgrade the BIOS to 1.01 and configure BIOS so that OS=Linux; also disable both MAC bridges. 2. Then installed SLES 9 with no problem (however, SATA drives are seen as hde and hdg --funny, no SCSI installed for now) 3. Installed latest nvidia drivers for the chipset from nvidia's site; reconfigured network cards to use nvnet. 4. Then installed application software (specifically IBM WebSphere, since this is a development workstation, and WebSphere is supported on SLES 9). 5. Eveything is fine for a few days, computer is always on, but after a while, the system will just hang. Nothing can be done; only course of action is to turn off machine (data lost!!) Apparently this happens when there is a lot of network traffic (as when downloading large files). So we figured we might want to upgrade the BIOS. We installed 1.01T (beta). Problem with this approach is that SLES sees all memory, but only one CPU. We're quickly approaching our deadlines; other WS on the team (all Tyans 2875) work w/o a problem. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help! -- Ricardo R Palma <rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws> Synopsis SA

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java quiz
by Mike Roy 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hello everyone: I'm using a sevice called Lavalife to find my next true love. One of Lavalife's features is an online chat program using java. On my laptop I have both Windows XP Home and SuSE 9.3 (64-bit mode). Recently I downloaded java 5.0 (I think) and successfully installed it under windows so the chat program works properly. However, under Linux, I can't see the text I'm typing until I hit the 'enter' key. There are some small marks in the 'text box' but nothing readable appears until it goes into the chat window. I went to java.com and downloaded: jre-1_5_0_02-linux-amd64-rpm.bin I followed the install instructions and everything seemed to work OK. When I tried to 'confirm' the install from the java.com site (verify installation), it did find my java runtime environment but said it wasn't the latest flavor. It was, however, the latest flavor in the Linux lineup. Even with java installed, the invisible text problem still exists. Did I do something or not do something? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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RE: [suse-amd64] Broadcom
by Miller, Marc 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Have you tried ndiswrapper? -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:spotslayer@rgv.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 3:04 PM To: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Broadcom I hear you Gus. This is the same thing I uncovered when I did the original 9.2 x64 on this computer. The linuxant works real good. I have been able to plug a netgear pcmcia wireless card and use it to run kismet. I just needed to set the netgear card to run in the adhoc mode. This was a better way anyway as I could still surf the net via the built in and have kismet monitoring at the same time. David Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote: > David wrote: > >> I would like to upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0. With the 9.2 I had to >> purchase driverloader from linuxant. Does anyone know if Novell and >> 10.0 has a 64bit driver for the built in broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050 >> builtin wireless adapter? I have a HP pavillion laptop with a AMD64 >> Athlon. >> David >> > I have a Compaq Presario AMD64-based laptop, which is the twin brother > of the HP Pavillion (albeit usually a bit less expensive). It, too, > has the Broadcom wifi chipset. From what I understand, Broadcom has > given the open-source community the middle finger, so I don't see how > SuSE --or any other distribution-- can have drivers for their wifi > chipset. (I bought this laptop because it has an nVidia graphics card > and nVidia is thought to have excellent Linux support.) > > In its infinite wisdom, HP has done something else with these laptops, > at least the Compaq 3000-series and Pavillion 5000-series, both nVidia > based: they programmed the BIOS so that it accepts only the > peripherals HP wants! As I read in the pertinent boards, a few people > tried to install another micro-PCI wifi device with native Llinux > support (taking the laptop apart), but the BIOS rejected it. I > vaguely remember a link to the HP site discussing this matter; HP > claimed they did it to satisfy FCC regulations because, unlike a > cardbus/PCMCIA wifi card, which is sold as a self-contained system, > the micro-PCI device needs to be FCC-certified with the laptop's > built-in antenna, or some similar weak excuse (it has been some time > since I read this). No word on why the BIOS does the same thing with > hard disk drives. > > Linuxant made the installation of their drivers very easy (I, too, use > Linuxant on this and another laptop). When you upgrade to 10.0, make > sure you also install the kernel sources. Then, as usual, run the > Linuxant installation script (making sure you are connected to the > internet and, if you are running as a normal user, you have run 'xhost > +local:localhost' because Linuxant's installer runs under root and > needs graphics, otherwise it reverts to command-line mode), and follow > the prompts. You should *NOT* need another license from Linuxant > because the license should follow the wifi device, not the kernel. > > Linuxant's 64-bit driverloader has worked very well for me. > Unfortunately, it uses the Windows drivers (as it is supposed to), > which do not have everything kismet wants to see. > > CF > > -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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the ultimate sources for 9.3 x86_64
by mark pryor 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

------------ inst_source.sh ------------- #!/bin/bash installation_sources -e -a ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/y… enabled installation_sources -e -a http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-scorot/suse93 installation_sources -e -a ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/suse/i386/9.3 installation_sources -e -a ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/x86_64/9.3/ #dvd:/// disabled installation_sources -e -a http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/9.3 installation_sources -e -a ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/suse/suse/x86_64/9.3 installation_sources -e -a http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/9.3 installation_sources -e -a ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/9.3 --------- unsnip -------------- Pascal has hidden some packages here: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-drcux/93/rpm/ here there is a singular working rpm for kchm. The i586 package won't do. the above bash script takes a long time to run, but once it's done, "YaST2 sw_single" has nothing left to do and opens up without delay. regards, tlviewer __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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"Stretched" output from Acrobat Reader
by Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hello everybody. On my Compaq Presario 3240 laptop (which has a wide screen), Acrobat images appear stretched along the horizontal (wide) axis of the screen (wrong aspect ratio). I do NOT see this problem with any other graphics output; the aspect ratio of the icons on the desktop is fine, etc., EXCEPT when I view an image in Acrobat Reader. Although I am not absolutely certain, I think this started happening after I updated Acrobat Reader through YOU recently. Any suggestions? TIA. CF

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RE: [suse-amd64] overclocking corrupted reiserfs on nForce4 board
by Black, Alain 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Mark, That seems odd. Which of the 2 SATA controllers are you using? One of them is affected by the over clocking of the system, and the other is not. I don't recall off the top of my head which controller, but it was ports 3 and 4 on the MSI NEO-2 Platinum mother board. I had my AMD64 3200+ (single core, 2.0 GHz) over clocked to 2.7GHz running the stock PIB heat sink/fan and it was very stable under 9.3. At 2.7GHz encoding my CDs and a number of other apps where faster when on the CPU, obviously the disk reads/write were the same speed as my hard drive didn't change. I was running 2 WD 2500JD's in a software RAID 0 configuration. So the I/O speed was very acceptable for anything I was doing on the desktop. -Alain P.S. Sorry for the top posting, I haven't figured out how to set Outlook to reply inline like a good mail reader yet. -----Original Message----- From: mark pryor [mailto:tlviewer@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:04 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] overclocking corrupted reiserfs on nForce4 board hello, system: Gigabyte ga-k8n ultra-9 AMD 4000+ 939 single core 2.4 Ghz 1 GB Ocz low latency 2-3-2-5 RAM Asus Nvidia GeForce EN-6800 pci-x video WD 2500JD Sata drive (JBOD on SiI 3114) SuSE 9.3 x86_64, 2.6.11.4-21.9-default kernel I ran for almost 2 months with no serious mishaps. Within the past week I had 2 times where scores of journal replays were triggered: lost power during lightning and a failed overclock setting wherein SuSE froze during bootup. SuSE managed to recover in the first case, but the bad overclock was too much -- the reiserfs was corrupted. No effort to repair the install helped. I went ahead and reinstalled with a safer, more careful overclock. Normally when I try a new overclock setting, I'm very careful and boot into memtest86 (v. 1.65) before I get to the Grub loader. Is this good enough, or is overclocking asking for trouble? If memtest86 shows errors I start over with cntrl-alt-delete and go back into the bios. My current overclock CPU freq.=216 -> DDR 433 RAM freqz=200 ( 1/1 ratio) Dram relaxed as 2.5-3-3-5 CPU voltage 1.4->1.425 volts this gives 2.59 Ghz, 5.25 Ghz/s bandwidth With the above oc, Apps load noticably faster. memtest86 predicts the numbers quite well before I get to WinXP and test with Sandra. Except for my collasol error, this is a dream machine. I restored from a BootitNG image. regards, tlviewer __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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no ACPI support for the 2nd CPU?
by Mario Goppold 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hi List, i have a Thyan Thunder K8S Pro (S2882) board 2 AMD Opteron 246 attached and /proc/cpuinfo and top shows me 2 cpus but during the boot the following message appears: ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1]) ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states) ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1]) ACPI-0733: *** Warning: Processor Device is not present ACPI-0521: *** Warning: Error getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3 ACPI-0733: *** Warning: Processor Device is not present ACPI-0521: *** Warning: Error getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x4 I have the new SuSE10 (2.6.13-15-smp) on the box. And my question: Is it normal that the 2nd CPU does not support ACPI? Mario

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