> 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
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.
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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
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
>
>
-----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
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
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
>
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