June 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

upgrading 9.2 to latest kernel 2.6.10, or later
by James D. Parra 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hello, What is the best way to get and install the latest kernel (2.6.10 or later), without breaking compiled driver modules, specifically the 3w_9xxx (3Ware) module? Thank you, James

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SCSI card
by James D. Parra 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hello, Can anyone recommend a good Advansys SCSI 160 card for Suse? Thank you, James

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RE: [suse-amd64] AMD Dual Core & kernel 2.6
by Bedard, Joe 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

An optimized kernel will see 4 CPU's and 2 memory nodes. It will see CPU 0,1 on node 1 and CPU 2,3 on node 2 My question is where does SLES 9 stand on dual core optimizations? -----Original Message----- From: James D. Parra [mailto:Jamesp@MusicReports.com] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 2:14 PM To: SuSE AMD64 (E-mail) Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] AMD Dual Core & kernel 2.6 Importance: Low > Will the kernel in Suse 9.1 support Dual AMD, Dual Core, processors? >It should work, but no optimizations and the CPUs are not reported as >siblings (this means if you have a license manager that licenses per >CPU it might make you pay too much) So the kernel will only see 2 CPU's not 4? Thanks, ~James -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x
by chu＠tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Alain Black wrote: >I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that I am quite pleased with. I use >the Parallel ATA as well at SATA. The only piece that I have not tried >yet is the firewire as I haven't had any digital editing to do since I >hooked this system up. I'm glad to hear that, as I am also looking at that board for my next computer. Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: >I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems >w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. I think you might be confusing the nvidia mobo chipsets with their graphics chipsets. The K8N Neo2 Platinum that Alain referred to above uses a nvidia gforce3 ultra I/O chip, and works quite well on various flavors of Linux, based on all the reports I've seen of it. Plus it has the built-in Gig-E interface, which can give you full Gig-E performance without sapping up bandwidth on the PCI bus. I do not believe the VIA K8T800 Pro has this feature. You don't need to use a nvida graphics card with this mobo; something from ATI should work just as well. Nvidia used to claim to have good support for their graphics chips on Linux systems. I'm not sure what the situation is now, so I would like to learn that as well. eyc

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RE: [suse-amd64] Touchpad Issues in 9.3
by Black, Alain 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

-----Original Message----- From: Barry Premeaux [mailto:bpremeaux@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 2:19 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Touchpad Issues in 9.3 > >Where would you put it? > > > Unless you want to see it at every boot, between resume=/dev/hda2 and > showopts. I gave that another try, making sure I didn't add anything but a space between parameters.. I got the same results. Although I see init 5 started during the boot up, and it drops me to the CLI. Startx fails and I end up deleting it from the line and then am able to complete a full reboot. As I said, I have tried stuffing it in alternate locations within the line and the result is the same. It simply does not like psmouse.proto=bare. Barry Barry, Have you tried using the Yast -> System -> Boot Loaded Configuration tool? It worked for me. -Alain.

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RE: [suse-amd64] AMD Dual Core & kernel 2.6
by James D. Parra 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

> Will the kernel in Suse 9.1 support Dual AMD, Dual Core, processors? >It should work, but no optimizations and the CPUs are not reported >as siblings (this means if you have a license manager that licenses >per CPU it might make you pay too much) So the kernel will only see 2 CPU's not 4? Thanks, ~James

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RE: [suse-amd64] AMD Dual Core & kernel 2.6
by James D. Parra 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

On 13 Jun, James D. Parra wrote: > Will the kernel in Suse 9.1 support Dual AMD, Dual Core, processors? It should.. the OS just sees seperate cpus like they were on their own dies.. not like Hyperthreading on the P4 line. Sles9 sp1 box: processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 33 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2205.027 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni bogomips : 4407.29 TLB size : 1088 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp egrep 'proc|model name|physical|sibling' /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 0 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual processor : 1 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 0 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual processor : 2 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 1 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual processor : 3 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 1 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual Thanks Mike, this is good to know. ~James

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Re: [suse-amd64] AMD Dual Core & kernel 2.6
by Michael Marion 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

On 13 Jun, James D. Parra wrote: > Will the kernel in Suse 9.1 support Dual AMD, Dual Core, processors? It should.. the OS just sees seperate cpus like they were on their own dies.. not like Hyperthreading on the P4 line. Sles9 sp1 box: processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 33 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2205.027 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni bogomips : 4407.29 TLB size : 1088 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp egrep 'proc|model name|physical|sibling' /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 0 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual processor : 1 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 0 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual processor : 2 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 1 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual processor : 3 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 physical id : 1 siblings : 2 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Like the man said "Nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious"

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AMD Dual Core & kernel 2.6
by James D. Parra 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello, Will the kernel in Suse 9.1 support Dual AMD, Dual Core, processors? Thanks, James

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Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem
by Michael Marion 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

On 13 Jun, Brad Dameron wrote: > It is not the BC57xx chipset in general. It is the implementation of it > on the Tyan S2881 early versions of the motherboard. They have since > corrected it and you can get a replacement motherboard from them. There's a similar problem we've been seeing with HP DL360's (I think) and (definitely) DL385s and the 5704 chipset where the NIC just shuts down. Downing then re-upping the interface brings it back online. Supposedly a new firmware fixes it, though we had at least one updated box hang the same way again on Fri. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" (Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi)

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Tyan S2881 network problem
by Ed Sherman 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello all, I'm trying to install SLES9 on a Tyan K8SR (S2881) The install goes okay but when the system start up I get: eth0 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. .......... waiting Same thing with eth1 (The board has two NICs) I can't connect to another machine via network. I can only ping localhost. I'm wondering if others have had this problem on this same board or if the network config goes well on the other Tyan K8SR (S2881) out there. I've searched for this on the net and found other people having similar problems but not for this particular motherboard or network interface (Broadcom 5704). If you've installed with this board and it went well please let me know. If you had problems with networking on this board and solved it (or didn't) please let me know if you have a solution. I'm starting to suspect a bad network interface on the board. Thanks in advance, Ed

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RE: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem
by Black, Alain 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

It sounds like your options are to replace the mother boards (more than likely cost prohibitive to say the least) or to get PCI cards for your network needs. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Georger [mailto:jgeorger@ll.mit.edu] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:44 PM To: Black, Alain Cc: Brad Dameron; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem Our files are typically 2 GB each. I think Tyan is using the non-C variant on their newer, PCI-E/nforce Pro boards. In googling I have seen a post of two of people saying the BCM5704C dies under anything more than a moderate load. Joe Black, Alain wrote: >Joe, > >What do you consider large files? > >I've got a 2 servers with MSI mother boards with the BCM5704 (don't know >what the C difference is) chip and we nfs/sftp/rcp multi gig files. >Nothing larger than 12 GB at this point though. We are quite pleased >with their performance. > >This is both under SLES8SP3 and SLES9. > >-Alain > >-----Original Message----- >From: Joe Georger [mailto:jgeorger@ll.mit.edu] >Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:17 PM >To: Brad Dameron >Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem > >We've got 7 of these units. On one the ethernet is dead. Some of them >have qlogic cards and are serving 2-3 3TB raids. When we try to move >copy large files over nfs or rcp, the machines like to lock up. We have >gone from Suse 9.1 Pro to 9.2 Pro to SLES9 and nothing is staying up. > >Is the BCM5704C really that bad? I can't blame the OS because I just >can't believe SLES9 would lock up like that. > >Joe > >

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RE: [suse-amd64] Touchpad Issues in 9.3
by Black, Alain 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

-----Original Message----- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 6:28 AM To: Black, Alain Cc: Barry Premeaux; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Touchpad Issues in 9.3 On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:03:35AM -0700, Black, Alain wrote: > I have a similar issue with my desktop machine running SuSE 9.3 32bit > that's hooked up to a KVM. When I switch back to the SuSE desktop the > mouse goes haywire (large movements across the screen and random mouse > clicks when I do not click the mouse buttons). The PC is a Dell > Optiplex GX270. > > Then I get "lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away", sometimes it's > 2 bytes and other times 1 byte. I never see the driver resynched > message though. > > My workaround (part of which will not work for a touch pad) is to move > the mouse about a quarter of an inch, which throws the cursor all over > the screen, and then let it sit for a couple of seconds. When that > doesn't work, I pick the mouse up until it can't read a surface below it > and put it back down. > Boot with psmouse.proto=bare. That fixes all problems, but unfortunately also disables the scrollwheel :/ -Andi -- Andi, Thanks, that option works for me. Just a note: I do not have this problem when attached to KVM's from Avocent, only with the less robust SoHo model from Belkin that I'm using at my desk. -Alain

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RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x
by Black, Alain 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I currently use an ATI x800 XT PE on that mother board. ATI has been getting better with their linux drivers. Their current release of drivers 8.14 even has an actual gui installer. Nvidia currently only supports up to the 6200 cards. This update to include the 6200's came out earlier this month from Nvidia. SuSE does a very nice job of making both vendors drivers simpler to install by repackaging them. Both vendors (ATI and Nvidia) recommend using the SuSE install process in the read me for their drivers. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Chu [mailto:chu@tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:49 PM To: Black, Alain; kus(a)free.net; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x Alain Black wrote: >I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that I am quite pleased with. I use >the Parallel ATA as well at SATA. The only piece that I have not tried >yet is the firewire as I haven't had any digital editing to do since I >hooked this system up. I'm glad to hear that, as I am also looking at that board for my next computer. Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: >I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems >w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. I think you might be confusing the nvidia mobo chipsets with their graphics chipsets. The K8N Neo2 Platinum that Alain referred to above uses a nvidia gforce3 ultra I/O chip, and works quite well on various flavors of Linux, based on all the reports I've seen of it. Plus it has the built-in Gig-E interface, which can give you full Gig-E performance without sapping up bandwidth on the PCI bus. I do not believe the VIA K8T800 Pro has this feature. You don't need to use a nvida graphics card with this mobo; something from ATI should work just as well. Nvidia used to claim to have good support for their graphics chips on Linux systems. I'm not sure what the situation is now, so I would like to learn that as well. eyc

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Re: [suse-amd64] number of CPUs for SMP kernels
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

In message from "Andi Kleen" <ak(a)suse.de> (Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:15:58 +0200): >On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:19:13PM -0700, Black, Alain wrote: >> Does that count physical processors or cores on the processors? > >local APIC IDs, cores or even HT threads. > >Remember he asked for ancient distributions. Yes, you are right about "ancient" :-) The reason of question was just the possibility to use this versions of SuSE w/2 chips*2 cores = 4 cores and modern "dual" (4 cores) server motherboards. Do I understasnd you correctly, that this SuSE versions will (at least in theory) work w/4 cores ? Yours Mikhail >Modern ones (including >SLES9-SP2) >have these limits extended, however there is no supported AMD setup >right now with that many CPUs. > >> Currently AMD has dual core CPU's on the market, they are supposed >>to >> release quad core CPU's sometime in Q1 2006. >> >> Would we then be restricted to 2 quad core CPU's? > >8 APIC ID is four socket dual core or 8 socket single core. > >-Andi > >-- >Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe >For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com > >

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Sitecom WL-113 WLAN USB-Stick with ZyDAS ChipSet
by Moritz Kürten 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello, is there a binary available for SuSE Linux 9.3-64 anywhere? Moritz

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RE: [suse-amd64] Touchpad Issues in 9.3
by Black, Alain 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

I have a similar issue with my desktop machine running SuSE 9.3 32bit that's hooked up to a KVM. When I switch back to the SuSE desktop the mouse goes haywire (large movements across the screen and random mouse clicks when I do not click the mouse buttons). The PC is a Dell Optiplex GX270. Then I get "lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away", sometimes it's 2 bytes and other times 1 byte. I never see the driver resynched message though. My workaround (part of which will not work for a touch pad) is to move the mouse about a quarter of an inch, which throws the cursor all over the screen, and then let it sit for a couple of seconds. When that doesn't work, I pick the mouse up until it can't read a surface below it and put it back down. It's a 3 button, wheel PS/2 optical mouse from Key Tronics hooked up to a Belkin OmniView SoHo series KVM. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Barry Premeaux [mailto:bpremeaux@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:52 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Touchpad Issues in 9.3 I have an Acer Aspire 1522LMi. I have been trying various 32/64 bit installs with 9.2/9.3 as I learn what works and what doesn't. I've settled on a 9.3 32 bit install which will let me set up the internal winmodem and wifi interfaces. One issue has been the Touchpad mouse under 9.3. I get a hesitation that sometimes requires that I wait a moment before trying to move the pointer. The message log file shows the following: linux kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input 0 lost sync at byte 1 linux kernel: psmouxe.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input 0 lost sync at byte 1 linux kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input 0 lost sync at byte 4 linux kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input 0 - driver resynched Occasionally you will also see: linux kernel: psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request I went into SAX2 and changed from the Synaptics Touchpad setup to Explorer/PS2 and rebooted. Still got the same messages. I also tried turning off the wheelmouse and setting it to 3 button emulation, but this didn't make a difference either. Does anyone have ideas on this one? Barry -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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When will 9.3 FTP Install be available?
by Ron Lau 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

My poor Shuttle XPC AMD64 has not had SuSE installed since 9.1 because of the SATA drivers and the Nvidia chipset drivers, and no DVD drive. :) -- R.

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mount: RPC: Program not registered
by Christian Del Taglia 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi, I am currently not able to mount shares on a dual opteron running with SuSE 9.2. A brief hosts description: oberon: Dual opteron PC with SuSE 9.2 osiris: File server with Windows Server 2003 polaris: Dual athlon PC mit SuSE 9.0 Problem: oberon is not able to mount osiris' share: with the command " mount -t smbfs //osiris/scsi-raid /S -o username=cfd " it seems to work, but then with "df" I get " Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 77085512 4259256 72826256 6% / tmpfs 1770980 12 1770968 1% /dev/shm df: `/S': Permission denied " The same mount command works perfectly on polaris. I thought it was a problem with the connection between oberon and osiris (Windows). However, mounting polaris' share neither works: On polaris I put the line "/usr oberon(rw)" in /etc/exports and did "exportfs -a". On oberon I wrote " mkdir /usr_polaris mount polaris:/usr /usr_polaris " Answer: " mount server reported tcp not available, falling back to udp mount: RPC: Program not registered " With yast2 I checked out whether nfs-packages are missing. However, everything seems to be ok. Does anybody of you have an idea? Thanks Christian -- Geschenkt: 3 Monate GMX ProMail gratis + 3 Ausgaben stern gratis ++ Jetzt anmelden & testen ++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail ++

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Re: [pptp-devel] Cannot establish PPTP VPN using MS-CHAPv2 on Suse 9.3 x86_64 - issue solved
by Bart Boelaert 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello James and everyone else suffering with the same problem, I took the latest stock Suse 9.3 kernel source (2.6.11.4-21.7-smp), compared it with the modifications of Matt's MPPE patch and manually applied the modifications to the kernel source. After compilation, the ppp modules integrated flawlessly into the running kernel! For the first time since the x86_64 release of Suse 9.1, I was able to successfully establish a PPTP VPN connection to the VPN gateway of my company using MS-CHAPv2!!! I also successfully performed several tests with other PPTP VPN gateways. For those desperately seeking for a solution, below is a link to the patch you should apply to the Suse kernel source (I suppose this patch should work also for single CPU kernels) : http://www.boelaert.com/linuxpatches/suse-9.3-x86_64-2.6.11.4-21.7-smp-ppp_… I will also notify the Suse guys about this issue. Thanks for the tip James (you made my week-end!) and thanks to everyone, especially Matt Domsch, for their contribution towards the final solution! Now, I can start thinking about wiping my Window$ system. ;-) Kind regards, Bart.

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RE: [suse-amd64] number of CPUs for SMP kernels
by Black, Alain 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Does that count physical processors or cores on the processors? Currently AMD has dual core CPU's on the market, they are supposed to release quad core CPU's sometime in Q1 2006. Would we then be restricted to 2 quad core CPU's? -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:13 PM To: Mikhail Kuzminsky Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] number of CPUs for SMP kernels On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:47:51PM +0400, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > Sorry, > what is the restriction for number of CPU's > for standard SMP kernels used for SuSE 9.0 (2.4.21) > and 9.1 (Professional) ? For 64bit kernels? 8 CPUs. -Andi -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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freeze of K3b v0.10 with SuSE 9.0 AMD64
by patheve2 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Hello all I have some problems with K3b 0.10 coming from SuSE 9.0 AMD64. The system is well upgraded with YOU. But since the beginning of the installation (10 months) up to now, I can't burn any CD : K3b always freezes when I start the burn (data CD). Is there an appropriate upgrade of K3b for SuSE 9.0, which allows a full use of this software ? Kind regards Pascal

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number of CPUs for SMP kernels
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Sorry, what is the restriction for number of CPU's for standard SMP kernels used for SuSE 9.0 (2.4.21) and 9.1 (Professional) ? Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow

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RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x
by Black, Alain 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that I am quite pleased with. I use the Parallel ATA as well at SATA. The only piece that I have not tried yet is the firewire as I haven't had any digital editing to do since I hooked this system up. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Mikhail Kuzminsky [mailto:kus@free.net] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:17 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x I serached in SuSE hardware compatibility DB, but didn't find the necessary information. I need to choose chipset&mobos for Athlon64 3200+/1 Ghz bus w/Socket 939 (we work w/Opteron on Tyan mobos, and Athlon64 will be 1st). I want to work w/SuSE 9.x (x=0,1 are preferred in particular because of compatibility requirements of some licensed software). Really we don't need SATA; the graphics must be "minimal". I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. But I don't know about support of this chipset under SuSE 9.0/9.1. I know only that K8T800 is supported by 9.0 also, but K8T800 Pro -? (K8T800 pro, as I understand, supports Socket 939 and slightly modified bus). I don't want to buy ASUS A8V because of Marvell GigE networking problems - but I don't know about Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP939 boards: does they works normally/stable ? BTW, is somewhere the list of supported chipsets for (any) SuSE 9.x ? Any information and recommendations in discussed area will be helpful ! Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelisnky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I serached in SuSE hardware compatibility DB, but didn't find the necessary information. I need to choose chipset&mobos for Athlon64 3200+/1 Ghz bus w/Socket 939 (we work w/Opteron on Tyan mobos, and Athlon64 will be 1st). I want to work w/SuSE 9.x (x=0,1 are preferred in particular because of compatibility requirements of some licensed software). Really we don't need SATA; the graphics must be "minimal". I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. But I don't know about support of this chipset under SuSE 9.0/9.1. I know only that K8T800 is supported by 9.0 also, but K8T800 Pro -? (K8T800 pro, as I understand, supports Socket 939 and slightly modified bus). I don't want to buy ASUS A8V because of Marvell GigE networking problems - but I don't know about Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP939 boards: does they works normally/stable ? BTW, is somewhere the list of supported chipsets for (any) SuSE 9.x ? Any information and recommendations in discussed area will be helpful ! Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelisnky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow

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