July 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Buying SuSe 9.3 out side USA and Europe
by Anirban Biswas 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi Is there any where from I can buy boxed pack of SuSe 9.3 out side of USA and Europe. I am from Kolkata , India. I want to buy boxed pack of SuSe 9.3 but $ 84 is little bit high as it is about rs 3500 in INR. Is there any SuSe distributor who accepts the money in Indian currency. TIA Anirban Biswas. -- Masjid dha de, mandir dha de, dha de jo kucch dainda Par kisi da dil na dhain, Rab dilan vich rehnda.. English Tear down the mosque and the temple; break everything in sight But do not break a person's heart, it is there that God resides

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Suse 9.3 + DFI LanParty Ultra-D, and dual core 4200+
by Elvis Chen 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

greetings, I'm building a new dual-core AMD system with the following spec: AMD dual-core CPU (4200+) with 1GB of RAM, DFI Ultra-D nforce-4 socket-939 MB with the latest BIOS flashed (June 23) Seagate 160GB SATA BenQ DVDRW Chaintech 5200TC video card (PCIx) With the latest BIOS, dual-core CPU is recognized at POST. MEMtest ran without any problem. I tried to perform FTP installation of Suse 9.3 using the boot.iso. The beginning of the installation went without any problems: I was able to select the packages, etc., and it grabbed the files from my NFS sever, etc. all is fine at this point. However, upon the *1st* reboot of the SUSE installation process, the screen just hang (black) after GRUB boot-loader. I had to perform a hard-reboot. So my question is: does the standard kernel on the Suse 9.3 installation CD support dual-core CPU? I suspect it doesn't and what what causes the black screen. any help is very much appreciated,

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Problem of SATA HDD with MSI RS480M2 board
by Anirban Biswas 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi I tried to install SuSe 9.2 on my new MOBO MSI RS480M2 , but while installation Yast can not find any Hard Disk on my system. TIA Anirban Biswas. -- Masjid dha de, mandir dha de, dha de jo kucch dainda Par kisi da dil na dhain, Rab dilan vich rehnda.. English Tear down the mosque and the temple; break everything in sight But do not break a person's heart, it is there that God resides

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Vmware Workstation on 9.3 (Opteron)
by Marcin Zalewski 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hello all, I am running Vmware Workstation on SUSE 9.3 on an Opteron machine. I am experiencing severe stability problems and have no clue to what is going on. I do not see any useful messages in the system log. Did any of you have better luck with Vmware on a configuration like mine? -m

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Running SuSe on MSI RS480 Mother Board
by Anirban Biswas 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi does any one able to run SuSe on MSI RS480 Mother Board. I tried to Install SuSe 9.2 on it but failed. At first my SATA hard disk does not get detected. So I installed a 40 GB PATA hard disk and tried to install SuSe 9.2 64 bit version. SuSe was taking too much time to partition the hard disk and the cpoying of RPM were also slow. Even some pckages were not get copied at all. And in the last whole installation frezzes due to a kernel panic. Also I got lots of APIC error on CPU:40 (40) If any body able to run SuSe 9.2 or more current version on the above mentioned mother board please help me to setup my new machine. TIA Anirban Biswas. -- Masjid dha de, mandir dha de, dha de jo kucch dainda Par kisi da dil na dhain, Rab dilan vich rehnda.. English Tear down the mosque and the temple; break everything in sight But do not break a person's heart, it is there that God resides

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Please help with the some NUMA-related questions
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

I will greatly appreciate any help regarding the following matters: (1) How to know whether my machine is NUMA-aware or not, (2) Difference between memory bank interleaving and node interleaving (3) When the BIOS asks me to set bank interleaving as AUTO, then it says that AUTO allows memory access to spread out over banks on the same node or across nodes decreasing memory access contentions. However, I have no idea when the memory access is spread over banks on the same node or across nodes. I also do not know how to tell the machine to access memory across the nodes or on the same node. I have no idea as to how the AUTO choice affects NUMA-awareness. (4) The BIOS also tells me that I could choose bani interleaving as DISABLED. But I do not know what its implications are for NUMA awareness. Here are other relevant details. I have a dual-Opteron 250 (2.4GHz) set in Tyan Thunder 2885 K8W with AMIBIOS version 2.05. When I bought it last year, the machine was running under SuSE 9.1 Pro and the Linux kernel was 2.6.5-7.108-smp. At that time both the Hardware Info from YAST and /vat/log/messages were explicitly mentioning things : Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 <6>Number of nodes 2 (10010) <6>Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 000000007fffffff <6>Node 1 MemBase 0000000080000000 Limit 00000000cbff0000 <6>Using node hash shift of 24 These messages indicated that NODE interleaving was off and the machine was NUMA-aware. Then, after a few months, the motherboard failed and the machine was sent to the vendor for repair. It came back with SuSE 9.3 and the Linux kernel version 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005. Now both the Hardware Info from YAST and /vat/log/messages DO NOT mention NUMA anywhere, and I do not have anyway to check whether the NODE-Interleaving is OFF or ON. My difficulties are compounded because I do not know how to interpret the chipset related setting in the BIOS. Currently, in the BIOS setting (Chipset->memory config -> Bank Interleaving), I am asked to choose between AUTO & DISABLED. No choice is offered for Node Interleaving. The only guidance for the choice is that interleaving allows memory access to spread out over banks on the same node or across nodes decreasing memory access contentions. Nothing is mentioned about what happens when Interleaving is disabled. Furthermore, if I choose AUTO, then I do not know when the memory is spread out over banks on the same node or across nodes. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance. -- 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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schedutil/Taskset
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

I gather that many Linux distributions come with schedutils of which taskset is a subset. This is indeed the case for SuSE 9- Enterprise server and for Fedora-core 3. What is the situation with SuSE 9.3 -Professional Series? As of this time, I am unable to find it in the distribution that I have. Could it be that it is included in the SuSE 9.3-Pro distribution and the vendor of my machine did not install it and that is why I do not not find it? In this case I may have to install them from the SuSE 9.3-Pro DVDs. Alternatively, could it be that schedutils & taskset come with Enterprise server only, and if I want these I will have to download them from their respective Homepages? Your advice 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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[ANNOUNCE] 9.3 FTP version and DVDs available
by Andreas Jaeger 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

FYI, we've put the SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional version on our web servers, you'll find a full ftp version (with a small network boot ISO), a 4.3 GB DVD image (usable for both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86) and 5 CDs (only 32-bit x86). More details: http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/downloads/suse_linux/instr… Have fun! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Testing gcc 4.0.1
by Paul C. Leopardi 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi all, This is a follow-up to "Configuring gcc 4.0.1". I made sure that I no longer had CXX defined in my .bashrc, and then started from scratch: Created gcc-4.0.1-obj Ran ./configure Ran make bootstrap Ran make -k check The gcc result looks OK. The g++ result does not. === g++ Summary === # of expected passes 9113 # of unexpected failures 2166 # of unexpected successes 16 # of expected failures 54 # of unresolved testcases 61 # of untested testcases 54 # of unsupported tests 90 /usr/bin/g++ version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809) The test is using /usr/bin/g++ instead of the 4.0.1 compiler I just built! This looks like the problem I saw in g++ 3.4.0 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2004-05/msg00031.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2004-05/msg00087.html Does anyone have any ideas why this keeps happening? Thanks

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Zaurus usb support/Kernel upgrade
by edward winston 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hello, I have a sharp zaurus, the sl-6000, and it appears that after my upgrade to 9.3 the device is no longer seen. Specifically, I cannot connect with usb networking. The kernel notices when i plug it in, but the usb0 ethernet device is not created. I have read that this is a known problem with the 2.6.11 kernel, so I was wondering if there will be an update to a 2.6.12 kernel. or a patch to 2.6.11 that will allow me to continue connecting to my zaurus. If not, is a kotd kernel an option? Or should I go with a vanilla kernel? Thanks, edward

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