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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#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
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
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!
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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
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
>
>
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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
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
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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
