February 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

9.2 pro Installation fails on dual opteron
by Robert Brodén 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hi we've been runing SUSE 9.1 pro on a dual opteron HP proliant server (6Gb ram, 3 disk raid) but when we try to install 9.2 it fails misserable. No matter what i select (safe mode, no acpi, normal whatever) i get the same result, the server deadlocks with no video in the end of the kernal load, before showing the language select dialog(no way to talk to the server except for powercycling...) I really can't se why previously suported hardware suddenly isn't functional? Does enyone have any ideas upon how to get the 9.2 version installed?! Is it any use to try the enterprise server version or should we just switch back to ReadHat? (must have a stable & functional server within a week or so and the .local domain issue of 9.1 makes it unusable) Best regards // Robert

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RE: [suse-amd64] SLES 9 iso to boot CD
by Irwin Hutchinson 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

An iso imaqe is instructions for what goes on your CD, like the recipe for a cake. If you put the receipe into the oven, you get burned paper. You have to follow the instructions on the receipe and put the result into the oven. What you are doing probably makes an iso image of the iso image and so puts the iso image on the CD. There is an option in K3B for burning iso images, poke around the menus to find it. Irwin Hutchinson ih(a)albatrosus.com Senior Quality Technician, AlbatrosUS Corp., 20 Corporate Circle, Albany 12203 NY Irwin Hutchinson ih(a)albatrosus.com Senior Quality Technician, AlbatrosUS Corp., 20 Corporate Circle, Albany 12203 NY

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9.2: can't get xinetd to start
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Having done a fresh install of 9.2 (after having had to disbale USB in the bios), I now cannot get xinetd to start either using the runlevel editor or from the command line. Any suggestions? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

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RE: [suse-amd64] recommendation wanted
by Phil Betts 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

On Friday, February 11, 2005 10:50 AM Torsten Foertsch wrote: > I am planning to buy a new computer. I thought of: > > - Mainboard ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe > - CPU Athlon64 3500+ (Winchester) > - RAM 2048MB > > The mainboard is a PCI express one. Will it work with suse 9.2? I've just put together the exact same spec. It works like a dream with 9.2. > > Now I am looking for a SATA RAID controller. I have heard much positive of > 3ware escalade 8506. But it is a PCI (without express) card. Will it work > with the board? There are 8 on-board SATA connectors, including RAID. The RAID controller is recognised by the kernel, but my two SATA drives are non-RAID (so far), so I can't say how good its RAID implementation is. If I were you, I'd hang onto my cash until you've tested the onboard RAID. If you find you need a full-blown RAID card, there are three normal PCI slots on the mobo, so you shouldn't have any problems getting it to work. > I have got an old AVMB1 PCI ISDN card. Will it work with the new > board? I don't see why not. I'm using all three PCI slots (SCSI card, audio and TV) with no compatibility problems. > What graphics card do you recommend? 3d is nice to have but not > necessary. I went for a Radeon (ASUS EAX800XT PCI-Express), passing up the opportunity to make use of SLI because I've had hardware failures with identical symptoms from three different generations of GeForce cards. The first time I put down to bad luck and replaced the board. The second time it failed inside the warranty period and was replaced with the next generation. The third time was the last straw. > Good linux compatibility is more important. It should support old VGA and LCD > displays. I'm using the ATI proprietary driver, but if you don't need accelerated 3D, you can get by with the xorg's radeon driver. Note that I had to upgrade to xorg-x11-6.8.2rc3-2.1.x86_64 and its friends. The version on the 9.2 DVD wouldn't work with the ATI driver. I've used it with a CRT from VGA resolution up to 1920x1440@75 and with two LCDs 1280x1024 and 1920x1200 (nice) using both VGA and DVI ports. I had no problems with any set-up. > I am trying to build a system with good disk- and network-IO-performance and > CPU performance. I'm pleased with all of them so far (even without switching to stripy RAID). I get the feeling that the components are nicely balanced, so that no one component is causing a bottleneck. All previous PCs I've used have tended towards becoming either CPU or disk bound, but with 2Gb RAM, there is plenty of scope for buffering to let the CPU ease the disk burden. For a system containing such new components, I'm amazed I've not had any real headaches. Finally, to give some idea of the performance: CPU: a raytracing landscape generator I'm writing (not 3D-accelerated, so very CPU intensive) used to take around 20s per frame on my 512Mb Athlon 2200+ ASUS V8X system. The same scene now takes a shade over 2 seconds per frame. Memory: AFAIR, running memtest reported a memory bandwidth of around 2Gb/s. Disk: It's hard to quantify disk performance because I've not come close to filling the memory yet so there's lots of cached data lying around. All I can really say is that installing a whole bunch of RPMs is a *lot* quicker than my old system (using the same SATA drives) Summary: go for it. HTH Phil -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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ASUS K8V SE Deluxe Cool & Quiet BIOS update SuSE 9.2
by Laurent GUERBY 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Hi, Even if my current BIOS option "Cool&Quiet" is on, SuSE 9.2 kernel-default-2.6.8-24.11 reports otherwise: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ I'm thinking of updating my BIOS which is currently: str1: "American Megatrends Inc." str2: "1001.005" str3: "02/09/2004" str1: "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." str2: "K8VSEDX" str3: "Rev 1.xx" str4: "MB-1234567890" to something more recent, on the ASUS site I found: File Type BIOS File Name K8vsedx5.zip File Size 422669 bytes Version 1005 Date 2004/12/22 Download 5501 Has anyone used this BIOS version, and does Cool & Quiet work on this motherboard with a recent enough BIOS? My AMD64 machine has no floppy, I assume I have to burn a CD or play with an USB key boot, any URL or steps to do so? Thanks in advance, Laurent

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Re: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA
by patheve2 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Hello Matt I did a test by modifying the parameters of the port range in the config.opts. With the values given by "lspci -vv" (1) for the card bus, this is sure, the PCMCIA cards don't work. With the values given by WinXP (2) , they work. In details : (1) with lspci -vv : I/O window 0: 0000c000-0000c7ff I/O window 1: 0000c800-0000cfff ....... I/O window 0: 0000b000-0000b7ff I/O window 1: 0000b800-0000bfff These values put in the config.opts file : # d'apres lspci -vv, valeurs decomposees en 4 gammes include port 0xb000-0xb7ff include port 0xb800-0xbfff include port 0xc000-0xc7ff include port 0xc800-0xcfff (2) with Win XP, the values put in the config.opts file : # d'apres WinXP, valeurs decomposees en 4 gammes include port 0xcc00-0xccff include port 0xd000-0xd0ff include port 0xd400-0xd4ff include port 0xdc00-0xdcff For the two tested cases, the memory range is in the config.opts file the following : # d'apres WinXP : include memory 0xfa200000-0xfeafcfff These are the values given by Win XP such as : #include 0xfa200000-0xfa200fff #include 0xfb200000-0xfd1fffff #include 0xfd200000-0xfd200fff #include 0xfdaf5000-0xfeaf4fff #include 0xfeaf5000-0xfeaf5fff #include 0xfeaf6000-0xfeaf6fff #include 0xfeaf7000-0xfeaf7fff #include 0xfeafc000-0xfeafcfff If I use the values of the PCI bridge secondary=02 (include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfeafffff) or of the two Cardbus (include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000) : it does not work. I know that this is very curious but I am sure now that this is the only way to get the PCMCIA card working. How to explain ? I don't know :-) ! Kind regards Pascal

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Re: [suse-amd64] ASUS K8V SE Deluxe Cool & Quiet BIOS update SuSE 9.2
by jm macip 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

Hi Laurent: Actually I have 3 Athlon 64 boxes,including my laptop, running fine with suse 9.2 with no errors. One of my motherboards is a K8V Deluxe with a 3200 Clawhammer CPU. I also have an acer Notebook Aspitr 1513lmi with an Nvidia chipset, before updating the bios I had several acpi and thermal problems problems. Maybe your cpu is a Newcastle core not very well recognized by the current BIOS so upgrade first!! it wouldn't do any harm if performed correctly! Normally the bios update should be performed from a rw media to allow you to save a backup of your current bios, so try with usb memory. (on hp web site there is a nice utility that allows you to format bootable usb keys. The other method is using windows if you have a dual boot system! hope it helps Josep Maria Macip >>>Laurent GUERBY <laurent(a)guerby.net> 02/11/05 8:07 pm >>> Hi, Even if my current BIOS option Cool&Quiet is on, SuSE 9.2 kernel-default-2.6.8-24.11 reports otherwise: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ I'm thinking of updating my BIOS which is currently: str1: American Megatrends Inc. str2: 1001.005 str3: 02/09/2004 str1: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. str2: K8VSEDX str3: Rev 1.xx str4: MB-1234567890 to something more recent, on the ASUS site I found: File Type BIOS File Name K8vsedx5.zip File Size 422669 bytes Version 1005 Date 2004/12/22 Download 5501 Has anyone used this BIOS version, and does Cool & Quiet work on this motherboard with a recent enough BIOS? My AMD64 machine has no floppy, I assume I have to burn a CD or play with an USB key boot, any URL or steps to do so? Thanks in advance, Laurent -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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VMWare in SuSE 9.2 64bit
by Sam Arredondo 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

I'm having trouble configuring VMWare in SuSE 9.2 64bit. Installed the latest vmware fine but when I run vmware-config.pl to configure it, I get: Building the vmmon module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only' make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24' Makefile:465: .config: No such file or directory CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html". Execution aborted. Has anyone been successful? -- Sam Arredondo

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Re: [suse-amd64] Upgrade to 9.2 - please help
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:44:08 -0600 Kevin Wilson <Kevin.Wilson(a)comtrol.com> wrote: > No you should be able to upgrade. Disable the usb in the bios and try > again, > it should let you get to the installer. Thanks. That was the solution, though I can't quite see why, since it said that activating USB devices was a "success". I guess I'm too naive to think that this might mean that something failed :) Anyway, after a re-install I'm almost back to normal. Gratefully, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

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recommendation wanted
by Torsten Foertsch 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Hi, I am planning to buy a new computer. I thought of: - Mainboard ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe - CPU Athlon64 3500+ (Winchester) - RAM 2048MB The mainboard is a PCI express one. Will it work with suse 9.2? Now I am looking for a SATA RAID controller. I have heard much positive of 3ware escalade 8506. But it is a PCI (without express) card. Will it work with the board? What SATA RAID controllers can you recommend? I have got an old AVMB1 PCI ISDN card. Will it work with the new board? What graphics card do you recommend? 3d is nice to have but not necessary. Good linux compatibility is more important. It should support old VGA and LCD displays. I am trying to build a system with good disk- and network-IO-performance and CPU performance. Thanks, Torsten

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