July 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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