July 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-amd64] Problems Installing 9.3 on DFI K8M800 - Please Help
by Black, Alain 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Frank, I did this during the initial install. I had two SATA disks that I wished to stripe, so during the install, when it was talking about partitioning, I selected LINUX RAID for the partition type and then selected what it was being striped with from the 2nd disk. I do not know if there is a way to stripe/mirror after the machine has already been installed. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Frank L. Parks [mailto:fparks@ezbizpartner.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:40 PM To: SuSE AMD64 Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Problems Installing 9.3 on DFI K8M800 - Please Help Alain, How did you do this? Did you do it in the first part of the install or as a passed parameter? I don't have an IDE installed. Thanks for the extremely quick reply! :-) Frank Black, Alain wrote: >Frank, > >What driver are you using? The onboard RAID is not real hardware RAID >and requires drivers to make it work. > >I went the route of configuring software RAID instead of using my >onboard VIA and have been quite happy with it. > >-Alain. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Frank L. Parks [mailto:fparks@ezbizpartner.com] >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:20 PM >To: SuSE AMD64 >Subject: [suse-amd64] Problems Installing 9.3 on DFI K8M800 - Please >Help > >Good Afternoon: > >I am attempting to install SuSE 9.3 on a DFI Motherboard K800M800-MLVF >utilizing the onboard VT8237 serial controller in RAID 1. > >I have updated the mobo bios to the latest available. > >I have entered the VIA bios and configured it as RAID 1 with the two >Seagate 160MB SATA Drives. > >I then do the install of SuSE 9.3. It gets through the first portion of > >the install with no problems. On reboot before the second portion, the >system hangs with GRUB Loading stage1.5. > >The motherboard is a DFI K8M800-MLVF with 512MB RAM and an AMD64 3000+. > >What other information can I provide so that I can get the thing up? >Just booting from the CD seems fine. I can even boot into rescue mode. > >I sure that I'm missing something simple, but unfortunately I don't have > >a clue. > >Thanks in advance, > >Frank > > > > -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] Problems Installing 9.3 on DFI K8M800 - Please Help
by Black, Alain 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Frank, What driver are you using? The onboard RAID is not real hardware RAID and requires drivers to make it work. I went the route of configuring software RAID instead of using my onboard VIA and have been quite happy with it. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Frank L. Parks [mailto:fparks@ezbizpartner.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:20 PM To: SuSE AMD64 Subject: [suse-amd64] Problems Installing 9.3 on DFI K8M800 - Please Help Good Afternoon: I am attempting to install SuSE 9.3 on a DFI Motherboard K800M800-MLVF utilizing the onboard VT8237 serial controller in RAID 1. I have updated the mobo bios to the latest available. I have entered the VIA bios and configured it as RAID 1 with the two Seagate 160MB SATA Drives. I then do the install of SuSE 9.3. It gets through the first portion of the install with no problems. On reboot before the second portion, the system hangs with GRUB Loading stage1.5. The motherboard is a DFI K8M800-MLVF with 512MB RAM and an AMD64 3000+. What other information can I provide so that I can get the thing up? Just booting from the CD seems fine. I can even boot into rescue mode. I sure that I'm missing something simple, but unfortunately I don't have a clue. Thanks in advance, Frank -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Problems Installing 9.3 on DFI K8M800 - Please Help
by Frank L. Parks 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Good Afternoon: I am attempting to install SuSE 9.3 on a DFI Motherboard K800M800-MLVF utilizing the onboard VT8237 serial controller in RAID 1. I have updated the mobo bios to the latest available. I have entered the VIA bios and configured it as RAID 1 with the two Seagate 160MB SATA Drives. I then do the install of SuSE 9.3. It gets through the first portion of the install with no problems. On reboot before the second portion, the system hangs with GRUB Loading stage1.5. The motherboard is a DFI K8M800-MLVF with 512MB RAM and an AMD64 3000+. What other information can I provide so that I can get the thing up? Just booting from the CD seems fine. I can even boot into rescue mode. I sure that I'm missing something simple, but unfortunately I don't have a clue. Thanks in advance, Frank

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DVD - no boot
by Mike Roy 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit mode and I tried to make a back-up copy of the dual-layer DVD. According the K3D, I did just that as the file sizes were identical. However, the copies I made will not boot. If the machine is up and running and I want to install software through YAST, then the copy DVD works OK. But, if I try to boot from the copy DVD, nothing happens. What have I done/not done and, more importantly, is there a way to correct this. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Howto build 32bit apps on amd64 suse 9.3?
by Fred van Zwieten 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Hi all, I am trying to compile syncekonnector-0.2.1 on a suse 9.3 amd64 platform. It depends on synce and synce-devel packages with are both (to my knowledge 32bit packages. configure complains about de synce libraries not being compatible in config.log. So, I instructed configure to use 32bit compile (-m32). Now, it complains it can't find libXext, but I know it's there (devel packages are both in 64bit and 32bit present). I'm not a devel guy, who to get out of this mess?

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superkaramba 0.37
by Jörg Hermsdorf 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

I just noticed that superkaramba 0.37rc1 is out and that Liquid Weather++ already requires it. For a while there was a discussion here about building a x86_64 rpm for SUSE 9.3... Was this successful? Any chance that there will be a superkaramba 0.37 SUSE 9.3 x86_64 RPM soon? Cu, Jörg.

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hda dma_intr error messages
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

I "moved" IDE HDD to other computer, and now I found under SuSE boot (in dmesg output) following messages: hda: dma_intr status=0x5 {DriveReady SeekCompleteError} hda: dma_intr error=0x84 {Drive Status Error BadCRC} This pair of messages repeate 4 times at the boot, and then there is ide0: reset: success hda (/dev/hda) is my SuSE HDD drive. Does this messages means some hardware problem w/my HDD and how serious (i.e. should I awaiting HDD replacement in the nearly future?) ? I checked (using badblocks read-only) all Linux (ext3fs and xfs) partitions on this HDD. There was no failure messages. Only dos and swap partitions are currently not checked (I don't know how to check swap partition else then dd /dev/hdx to /dev/null ?)

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RE: [suse-amd64] PCI memory hole and remapping (was -> Re: [suse-amd64] Memory Problem: 3Gb instead of 4Gb, TYAN K8WE s2895, 2x252 Opteron )
by Langsdorf, Mark 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

> > Ok, so I tried to play around with that a little bit. With memory > > remapping, /proc/mtrr looks like that: > > reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 > reg02: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 > reg03: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1 This doesn't work. If your BIOS is doing this (as opposed to you mucking with the settings), I need to get the AMD BIOS developers to talk to your BIOS developers. You can not overlap *anything* with uncacheable and get anything but uncacheable back. Uncacheable trumps all other MTRR settings. See p 229 of http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/ 24593.pdf You may want to check if your BIOS has an option for "Discrete" or "continuous" usage of MTRRs. Experiment with both settings - I believe "discrete" should work better in a memory hoisting environmnet. -Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.

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Memory Problem: 3Gb instead of 4Gb, TYAN K8WE s2895, 2x252 Opteron
by Fuad Efendi 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, TYAN K8WE S2895, BIOS v.1.01 2 x Opteron 252 Troy. 4 x OCZ 1024MB DDR ECC PC3200 (Server Series) of memory. BIOS tests are Ok. However, SLES 9 finds only 3 Gb instead of 4 Gb. All BIOS settings are default; installation is default. Thanks!

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Fw: Re: Fwd: [suse-amd64] SuSE 9.3 and Tyan S2895
by rrpalma＠synopsis.ws 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Thanks Dima for the tip. BTW, now I see both CPUs. However, now I seem to have another problem. While it would seem that I don't need to upgrade the BIOS on this particular machine, I do have another 2895 that has dual-cores, so I would definitely need to upgrade the BIOS. This other machine, though, will use both SATA, IDE and SCSI drives. The SATA are on a RAID card. It seems I will have the same problems as you do? Any suggestions? ________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 email : rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws -----Dima <bryga66(a)yahoo.com> wrote: ----- To: matthurd(a)acm.org, suse-amd64(a)suse.com From: Dima <bryga66(a)yahoo.com> Date: 07/13/2005 07:57PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [suse-amd64] SuSE 9.3 and Tyan S2895 >Make sure you use > the 1.01 BIOS for this board as the 1.00 will only > work cleanly with > apic=off. The 1.01 bios will install 9.3 out of the > box nicely. Actually, v.1.01 is buggy. Depending on how many devices you have, you might , for example, lose SCSI controller (that's what happened to me). I have SATA drives. When I unplugged them, only then BIOS reported SCSI (LSI) controller and prompted to "Ctrl-C" to enter it's setup. Also an error messages popped up during boot (see below). When I complained to TYAN tech support I got this answer: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Q? Why do I get this error message (Out of space for Option ROMs! The Option ROM for the following device- PCI Mass Storage Controller on Motherboard Bus:0A, Device:06, Function:00 -was unable to run due to memory constraints) after I have updated my bios? A: The Phoenix BIOS Code used in version 1.00 moves the USB initialization to above 1MB memory. This would free up more than the standard 128k memory for Option ROM space. However, a bug was found in this code with the nVidiachipset. Initializing memory above 1MB will cause the USB to not work properly. Current BIOS versions have moved the USB back down to the legacy memory location in the memory range of E0000. This limits option ROM to maximum 128k. Tyan is working with nVidia & Phoenix to fix the BIOS code bug. We will provide a BIOS update as soon as we are able to verify a robust fix. The only current work arounds are to try using a different video card with a smaller Video BIOS or Disable MAC Bridge or SATA Controllers if not used. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dima. --- Matt Hurd wrote: > Hmmm, I sent you a mail directly but my email was > reported to be > blacklisted at your server... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Matt Hurd > Date: 14-Jul-2005 08:40 > Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] SuSE 9.3 and Tyan S2895 > To: "rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws" > > > > 3. Any other issue I should be aware of? > > I have a similar config with half a dozen machines. > Make sure you use > the 1.01 BIOS for this board as the 1.00 will only > work cleanly with > apic=off. The 1.01 bios will install 9.3 out of the > box nicely. Also > if you have 4GB or more RAM be aware of the PCI > address remapping as > otherwise the default config will be with 1GB less > than you expect of > available memory. > > Hope this helps, > > Matt > __________ > linux noobie > > -- > Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe > For additional commands, email: > suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Fwd: [suse-amd64] SuSE 9.3 and Tyan S2895
by Matt Hurd 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Hmmm, I sent you a mail directly but my email was reported to be blacklisted at your server... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Hurd <matt.hurd(a)gmail.com> Date: 14-Jul-2005 08:40 Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] SuSE 9.3 and Tyan S2895 To: "rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws" <rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws> > 3. Any other issue I should be aware of? I have a similar config with half a dozen machines. Make sure you use the 1.01 BIOS for this board as the 1.00 will only work cleanly with apic=off. The 1.01 bios will install 9.3 out of the box nicely. Also if you have 4GB or more RAM be aware of the PCI address remapping as otherwise the default config will be with 1GB less than you expect of available memory. Hope this helps, Matt __________ linux noobie

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SuSE 9.3 and Tyan S2895
by rrpalma＠synopsis.ws 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Hello, I just finished building a machine with this motherboard, and need to install SuSE 9.3 Pro on it. It has 2 Opterons 252. Since this is the very first time I install the 64 bit version of SuSE on a 2 CPU Opteron machine, I have several questions in my mind, that somebody might be kind enough to answer: 1. How van I tell whether the motherboard recognizes both CPUs? 2. When I boot from the DVD, I go into rescue system option. I can then tell that it has loaded the 64 bit version of the kernel. However, when I cat /proc/cpuinfo, apparently I can only see 1 CPU. Also, when doing a zcat of /proc/config.gz, I see SMP is off. Now, this is the rescue system option, I haven't performed an install yet. However, does this mean that Linux i seeing only one CPU? Or once I do the insyall, it will normally see both? Or do I have to configure /recompile / install a new kernel? 3. Any other issue I should be aware of? Thanks for the help! ________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 email : rrpalma(a)synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws

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Any experiences with "Tyan Thunder K8SE" or NVIDIA "nForce Professional 2200"?
by Steffen Moser 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Hi all, I am currently planning to set up a dual Opteron based machine as a server machine (for quite different services) for a school's network. Tyan's NVIDIA "nForce Professional 2200" based main board "Thunder K8SE 2892G3NR" [1] has come into closer consideration, yet. My questions regarding this main board or chipset would be: - Is there anyone on this list who uses this main board (or another board that is based on the same chipset) running Linux (or even especially SuSE-Linux-9.3_x86-64)? - If so, can you please tell me about your experience? Are there any pitfalls (e.g. components that tend to make problems when running Linux)? - Especially: How well does the builtin S-ATA-II controller run? Is SuSE-9.3_x86-64 installable on pure S-ATA disks connected to this controller? - Is my assumption right, that the RAID the builtin S-ATA-II controller is capable of, is no real hardware RAID but a driver emulated RAID? So my solution would be to use real software RAID (level 0+1) instead which shouldn't impact performance much as I don't run the computing intensive RAID 5. I would be very glad if anyone can give me some information about this board or chipset - especially about the S-ATA-II controller. Many thanks in advance! Kind regards, Steffen [1] ftp://ftp.tyan.com/datasheets/d_s2892_100.pdf ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2892_102.pdf

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tg3 driver can fail with memory remapping
by Frank Steiner 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Hi, since I didn't find this browsing manually through the archives (will there ever be a search function for SuSE mailing lists??? :-)) I send this for information for other users that might step on it: The tg3 network driver can fail on 64bit systems when the memory remapping around the memory hole at 3.5GB (look here for an explanation: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jul/0071.html) is activated. On my Asus A8V board with AMD64 4000+ CPU and a 3com 3C996B-T network card, the tg3 driver fails with tg3.c: v3.31 (June 8, 2005) tg3_test_dma() Write the buffer failed -19 tg3: DMA engine test failed, aborting. when I've either Software- or Hardware-base memory remapping activated in the bios. As soon as I deactivate both of these options, the card and the driver work fine. Of course, Linux doesn't see all of the 4GB then (only 3.7GB), but that's better than having no network :-) And I need to deactivate the remapping anyway to get 3D acceleration for the fglrx driver running... Maybe this helps other people that have problems with the tg3 driver! cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *

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Re: [suse-amd64] Searching SuSE lists was Re: [suse-amd64] tg3 driver can fail with memory remapping
by TimSchofield.7552659＠bloglines.com 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

--- Volker Kuhlmann <hidden(a)paradise.net.nz wrote: > since I didn't find this browsing manually through the archives (will > > there ever be a search function for SuSE mailing lists??? :-)) > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ then look down to "Linux distributions" and take your pick Tim

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Memory test option does nothing
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

I have a Dual Opteron with both SuSE9.3 & Fedora 3, SuSE being the default . Both are x86_64 versions. In splash screen, where we are asked to make choices for either the SuSE or Fedora, we have an additional option to make a choice for memory test. However, when I choose memory test, then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. How can I get the memory test done? Your help will be greatly appreciated. -- Best regards. Sheo (Sheo S. Prasad) Creative Research Enterprises 6354 Camino del Lago Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA Voice Phone: (+1) 925 426-9341 Fax Phone: (+1) 925 426-9417 e-mail: ssp(a)CreativeResearch.org

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nasty A8N8x bug
by Janne Karhunen 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Hi, Anyone out there with Asus A8N8x x86-64 motherboard and SUSE 9.3? I haven't had any success with SUSE kernels for a long time with SUSE 9.3. Mainline kernels work fine, as do SUSE 9.1 and 9.2 kernels, but none of the 9.3 kernels make it through kernel initialization phase. They hang on 'probing PCI hardware (00)'. Tried different BIOS versions and PCI/APIC related BIOS settings and kernel parameters, but no luck there. When 9.3 came out i had to rip out SUSE kernel during installation and revert it to the one used in 9.2. I was quietly wishing this was a temporary 9.3 bug and would be resolved soon, but no. Still blank. Any ideas? I'd be willing to help in any way i can to resolve this. Has to be some nasty PCI related patch applied to 9.3 that my box just doesn't handle properly. -- // Janne

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Re: [suse-amd64] Sun W1100z - problem with keyboard and mouse
by Bernard Lineham 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hi, We have two of the same workstations (W1100z) and we are seeing exactly the same problem as described in Mark's e-mail under Suse 9.3. The problem also occurs under Novell Linux Desktop. I can also add Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu 5.04 to the list of distros that work properly. This is definitely a compatibility issue with Suse only. Suse is the distribution of choice at our institution and this problem is proving to be very frustrating. I would welcome any suggestions as to how we might work around it. Cheers, Bernard ---Previous Messages--- I got a similar problem with the keyboard. I believe it was related to a timing issue, caused by some problems with the interrupts. For instance, time was not linear on this machine, it keeps jumping back and forth all the time. Very odd behavior, the OS was really confused. With APIC disabled in the BIOS and some kernel updates, it got better... ...Luc... leluc(a)mac.com On Jul 8, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Mark Chernault wrote: > Hardware: > 4 different Sun Java Workstation W1100z (Opteron 150, 1GB RAM) > 4 x Sun USB keyboard > 4 x Sun USB mouse > > Problem occurs with: > SuSE Professional 9.1 64bit > SuSE Professional 9.3 32bit > SuSE Professional 9.3 64bit > > Problem does not occur with: > Sun Java Desktop > Gentoo > OpenBSD > > Problem Description: > > Keyboard - While holding down any key, that character will repeat on > the screen about 30-160 times until it pauses for a second before > displaying several of the same character at once, and will then > continue to repeat until the next pause. This occurs on the console, > in xterms, remotely, in different shells, and in different editors. > It also occurs while typing normally. > > Mouse - While in X, moving the mouse in circles for about 10s-60s, the > mouse will pause for a second and then jump to where it thinks it > should be. If I continously move the mouse in circles it will pause > just about every minute. > > I've only had the problem occur in SuSE Professional, 9.1 64bit, 9.3 > 32bit, 9.3 64bit. I didn't encounter the problem in the Sun Java > Desktop, gentoo or in OpenBSD. The problem occurs using the latest > SuSE kernel, as well as with kernel 2.6.13-rc1. We currently have 4 > W1100z's that have SuSE 9.3 Pro 64bit on them, and all 4 exhibit the > same problem. > > Thanks in advance for any help. If you need more information let me > know. > > -Mark > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------

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Re: [suse-amd64] AMD 64 laptops
by patheve2 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hello Hereafter my small contrib on an AMD64 laptop and SuSE AMD64. Mine is an Asus L5D, no more available. I bought it on last year, on July exactly. So one year with this laptop .... and SuSE 9.0 + SuSE 9.1 (the two ones are installed with WinXP). What does not work with SuSE AMD64 : - internal modem : this is a Conexant one, a Linuxant driver 64 bits is available now; I prefer to buy a PCMCIA modem card (Com One) - wifi device : this is a Broadcom one. I am going to have a look on Linuxant site ... - card reader (3in1) : this is a Ricoh one About PCMCIA : with the help of Matt, my Com One modem works fine with SuSE 9.1 (updated with kernel and PCMCIA package of SuSE 9.2); with SuSE 9.0, sometimes it works .... in one location, not everywhere (That's curious). About ACPI : suspend to RAM and suspend to disk are not activated (just for info : I bought last week a HP laptop nx6110 without OS, I installed SuSE 9.3 32 bits and I could test the suspend to disk : it works fine !!, so with SuSE 9.3 AMD64 on a 64 bits laptop, it should work too). Just a small problem with SuSE 9.0 : if I halt the laptop plugged on AC power (with or without battery) and try to start again with ON/OFF button, it freezes on Asus logo. Not the case with SuSE 9.1 or WinXP. About video card (FX 5650) : I use the Nvidia drivers downloaded from Nvidia website. What a beautifull screen (1400x1050) ! This is with the last XFree package supplied by SuSE. About web navigator : I use Opera with 32 bits plugins ... and sometimes FireFox ou Mozilla when no flashplayer website. Take care : on SuSE 9.0 or SuSE 9.1 the plugin Java was not 64 bits. I had to download and install the Blackdown Java one. To my mind, the best choice : a 64 bits laptop with Nvidia graphic card and chipset + SuSE AMD64. I suppose that SuSE 9.3 AMD64 is like the previous ones : very good. I never try Mandrake 64 bits or Fedora Core 64 bits but it seems that SuSe makes the best distrib for AMD64 allowing to run 32 bits softwares. Regards Pascal

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AMD 64 laptops
by Mike Roy 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hello everyone: Has anyone experienced major problems running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit on an AMD 64 laptop? Either install, running or mechanical problems, such as overheating, hardware not being recognized, etc. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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9.2 upgrade to 9.3
by James D. Parra 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hello, I have 9.2 installed on a Dual Opteron and want to upgrade to 9.3. Has anyone had any success with upgrading? Curious to see if anyone has had any good results before I scrub the OS and do a fresh install. Thanks in advance, James

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PHP 5 und Oracle Instant Client
by Reto M. Kiefer 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hallo, nach einem Hinweis aus der SuSE-Oracle-Liste wende ich mich an Euch, in der Hoffnung auf einen Rat... Ich habe das Problem, dass ich auf einem Dual-Xeon mit Suse x86_64 9.3 ein aktuelles PHP5 mit u.a. Unterstützung für den Oracle Instant Client kompilieren muss. Letzterer ist nicht in 64 bit erhältlich, weshalb der Compilervorgang logischwerweise immer mit einem Hinweis auf eine inkomaptible Bibilothek abbricht... Bevor ich das Xeon-System mit SuSE 9.3 x86_32 neu aufsetzen muss (denn bei meinen Tests in der x86_32 Version lief das völlig reibungslos) meine Frage, ob ich evtl. auf dem 64bit System ein 32bittiges PHP executable kompilerien kann... Folgende Versuche habe ich unternommen jedoch ohne Erfolg: --target=i386-pc-linux-gnu und auch export CC='gcc -m32' Ich wäre Euch wirklich dankbar, wenn Ihr mir weiterhelfen könntet. Die Supportdatenbank von Oracle weiß auch keine Lösung und die Installation des kompletten "alten" Oracle Clients soll ich auf jeden Fall vermeiden (zumal der auch Probleme macht -- wenn auch andere --, wie ich feststellen durfte...). Welche Bedingungen müssen den erfüllt sein, dass ich bei diesem BiArch-System ein 32bittiges PHP-Executable erzeugen kann? Wie gesagt, als Trost bliebe mir das System erneut mit 32bit aufzusetzenm, aber das wäre für mich nur die Notlösung... Danke im Vorab Reto

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/proc/mtrr & BIOS-provided RAM map
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

I am having a horrible problem of wild and random variation in execution time of of a benchmark test program from one fresh reboot to another fresh reboot (and also from one try to another in any one reboot). At the advice of a few colleagues at linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org and at use-amd64(a)suse.com (who very kindly spared their valuable time to give me some advice), I tried booting with mem=4000M, mem= 3264, mem=3000M and mem=2000M (i.e, a value that is less than the actual RAM (4096M PC3200 in 4 dimms with 2 dimms on each CPU that is an Opteron 250 at 2.4 GHz) that are under the control of SuSE 9.3 operating system. None of the setting has helped. I continue to get the same wild and random variation in the execution of the test program under identical conditions (test program is the only program running, no Internet etc.). Also, no matter what is set for xxxx in mem=xxxxM , the contents of the /proc/mtrr & and the BIOS provide RAM map remain exactly the same (although the dmesg shows the amount of memory change with the value of xxxx in mem=xxxxM). Is this normal? Does this show any BIOS problem? What these are telling me. I will greatly appreciate any advice that any one may have for me on the above questions. The following are the contents of /proc/mtrr and the BIOS provided RAM map. (1) content of /proc/mtrr : reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0xc8000000 (3200MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: write-combining, count=2 (2) BIOS provided RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cbff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000cbff0000 - 00000000cbfff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000cbfff000 - 00000000cc000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Thanks for your help. -- Best regards. Sheo (Sheo S. Prasad) Creative Research Enterprises 6354 Camino del Lago Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA Voice Phone: (+1) 925 426-9341 Fax Phone: (+1) 925 426-9417 e-mail: ssp(a)CreativeResearch.org

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thttpd and time zones?
by David J N Begley 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Is anyone else running thttpd on SuSE Linux and experiencing wierd time zone behaviour? I have thttpd running as a light-weight Web server on our Web proxies in order to provide access to the autoproxy "proxy.pac" file (leaving this duty up to the corporate Web "experts" has proven to be too great a risk): hostname:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release ; uname -srm ; rpm -q thttpd SuSE Linux 9.2 (x86-64) VERSION = 9.2 Linux 2.6.8-24.16-smp x86_64 thttpd-2.25b-27 Using the default SuSE configuration, thttpd writes primarily to the log "/var/log/thttpd.log", though periodically it likes to dump status info to the system log (/var/log/messages). In both cases, thttpd seems to prefer UTC/GMT rather than the local time zone - for example, the request log (/var/log/thttpd.log) contains time stamps like this: 09/Jul/2005:07:17:39 +0000 instead of this: 09/Jul/2005:17:17:39 +1000 Okay, that's fine and restricted to the access log - I can adjust for that and am not too worried; however, entries written to the system log are _also_ in the wrong time zone, so /var/log/messages ends up containing time stamps like this: Jul 9 16:28:45 hostname -- MARK -- Jul 9 06:29:15 hostname thttpd... Jul 9 06:29:15 hostname thttpd... Jul 9 06:29:15 hostname thttpd... Jul 9 06:29:15 hostname thttpd... Jul 9 06:29:15 hostname thttpd... Jul 9 06:29:15 hostname thttpd... Jul 9 16:48:45 hostname -- MARK -- Jumping backwards/forwards 10 or more (during DST) hours in the middle of the system log is something I'd like to avoid if possible. The system clock is set as per: hostname:~ # egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/sysconfig/clock HWCLOCK="--localtime" TIMEZONE="Australia/Sydney" DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="Australia/Sydney" The machine runs NTP to keep the clock accurate and is synchronised to two stratum 2 NTP servers. Other commands/services such as "date" or even Sendmail all show the correct time and time zone - for example: hostname:~ # date +%z +1000 Any idea why thttpd doesn't want to co-operate? Is this normal for thttpd, something in the SuSE RPM for thttpd or something screwed on my system? Thanks for any hints/data points...

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Sun W1100z - problem with keyboard and mouse
by Mark Chernault 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Hardware: 4 different Sun Java Workstation W1100z (Opteron 150, 1GB RAM) 4 x Sun USB keyboard 4 x Sun USB mouse Problem occurs with: SuSE Professional 9.1 64bit SuSE Professional 9.3 32bit SuSE Professional 9.3 64bit Problem does not occur with: Sun Java Desktop Gentoo OpenBSD Problem Description: Keyboard - While holding down any key, that character will repeat on the screen about 30-160 times until it pauses for a second before displaying several of the same character at once, and will then continue to repeat until the next pause. This occurs on the console, in xterms, remotely, in different shells, and in different editors. It also occurs while typing normally. Mouse - While in X, moving the mouse in circles for about 10s-60s, the mouse will pause for a second and then jump to where it thinks it should be. If I continously move the mouse in circles it will pause just about every minute. I've only had the problem occur in SuSE Professional, 9.1 64bit, 9.3 32bit, 9.3 64bit. I didn't encounter the problem in the Sun Java Desktop, gentoo or in OpenBSD. The problem occurs using the latest SuSE kernel, as well as with kernel 2.6.13-rc1. We currently have 4 W1100z's that have SuSE 9.3 Pro 64bit on them, and all 4 exhibit the same problem. Thanks in advance for any help. If you need more information let me know. -Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dmesg ----- Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent console=tty0 resume=/dev/hda2 showopts) Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.7-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ff60000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff60000 - 000000003ff72000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff72000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec00400 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) ACPI: RSDP (v002 PTLTD ) @ 0x00000000000f7340 ACPI: XSDT (v001 PTLTD XSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x000000003ff6d72b ACPI: FADT (v003 SUN SUNmetro 0x06040000 PTEC 0x000f4240) @ 0x000000003ff71dfc ACPI: SRAT (v001 AMD HAMMER 0x06040000 AMD 0x00000001) @ 0x000000003ff71ef0 ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x000000003ff71f80 ACPI: DSDT (v001 SUN K85AE 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x0000000000000000 On node 0 totalpages: 261984 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 257888 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:5 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xe0000000] gsi_base[24]) IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xe0000000, GSI 24-27 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x03] address[0xe0001000] gsi_base[28]) IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 3, version 17, address 0xe0001000, GSI 28-31 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xe0500000] gsi_base[32]) IOAPIC[3]: apic_id 4, version 17, address 0xe0500000, GSI 32-35 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xe0501000] gsi_base[36]) IOAPIC[4]: apic_id 5, version 17, address 0xe0501000, GSI 36-39 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Setting APIC routing to flat Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ e8000000 size 128 MB Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent console=tty0 resume=/dev/hda2 showopts bootsplash: silent mode. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes) time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz PIT timer. time.c: Detected 2393.222 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Memory: 1023680k/1047936k available (2167k kernel code, 23512k reserved, 1160k data, 168k init) Calibrating delay loop... 4702.20 BogoMIPS (lpj=2351104) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line) CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 150 stepping 0a checking if image is initramfs... it is ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found! not found! Using local APIC NMI watchdog using perfctr0 Using local APIC timer interrupts. Detected 12.464 MHz APIC timer. NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 *5 10 11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 5 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 5 *10 11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 5 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.TP2P._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.G0PA._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.G0PB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI1] (00:08) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 08) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI1.Z00D._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI1.G1PA._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI1.G1PB._PRT] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report TC classifier action (bugs to netdev(a)oss.sgi.com cc hadi(a)cyberus.ca) agpgart: Detected AMD 8151 AGP Bridge rev B3 agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000 PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU. IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $ audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1120844857.681:0): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xffffc20000100000, using 6144k, total 131072k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: PC Speaker md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) NET: Registered protocol family 1 PM: Checking swsusp image. PM: Resume from disk failed. ACPI wakeup devices: USB0 USB1 Z007 Z00A Z00B G0PA G0PB G1PA G1PB ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx AMD8111: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 AMD8111: chipset revision 3 AMD8111: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later AMD8111: 0000:00:07.1 (rev 03) UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1460-0x1467, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1468-0x146f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: WDC WD800BB-22JHC0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: AOPEN COM5232/AAH PRO, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed. hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Attempting manual resume PM: Checking swsusp image. swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? PM: Resume from disk failed. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. Adding 1044216k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:42 extents:1 device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel(a)redhat.com kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Capability LSM initialized ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized video1394: Installed video1394 module parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (polling). NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device ffffffff804061e0(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4093 buckets, 32744 max) - 304 bytes per conntrack ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49695 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub load_module: err 0xffffffffffffffef (dont worry) ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ohci_hcd 0000:01:03.0: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:01:03.0: irq 177, pci mem 0xe0102000 ohci_hcd 0000:01:03.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:03.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 ohci_hcd 0000:01:03.1: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:01:03.1: irq 185, pci mem 0xe0103000 ohci_hcd 0000:01:03.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected load_module: err 0xffffffffffffffef (dont worry) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:03.2[C] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ehci_hcd 0000:01:03.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:01:03.2: irq 193, pci mem 0xe0104000 ehci_hcd 0000:01:03.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ehci_hcd 0000:01:03.2: park 0 ehci_hcd 0000:01:03.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 5 ports detected tg3.c:v3.23 (February 15, 2005) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:02.0[A] -> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95703A30) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:0a:e4:2e:45:fb eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[0] usb 1-3: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device ffff81003e43e800(sit0) tg3: eth0: Link is up at 10 Mbps, half duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. cdrom: open failed. SCSI subsystem initialized st: Version 20041025, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found usbcore: registered new driver hiddev input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [0430:0100] on usb-0000:01:03.0-3 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [0430:0005] on usb-0000:01:03.1-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver eth0: no IPv6 routers present ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI-0484: *** Warning: Error getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x1 ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRS] (39 C) powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB -- Mark Chernault <marchern(a)cs.nmsu.edu> Technical Assistant, COG, CS Dept., NMSU

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