August 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

> > 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. > > That would be great. Please do that. What's shown above is > indeed the mtrr settings that come from the bios. I didn't > change anything. And that's the same on two different PCs > (both iwth A8V), so it's not that just one PC is broken or > sth... However, whatever problems I was reporting to ASUS, I > never got anything helpful back, or a fix in the next release > etc. They seem to ignore user bug reports, but I guess they > won't ignore AMD... What motherboard, BIOS vendor, and BIOS version are you using? > > 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. > > Unfortunately not! I read about other mainboards having this > option in the bios and looked for it carefully, because other > people reported they could fix the problem with the fglrx > driver using this setting. Unfortunately, Asus didn't put > such a setting in their latest release... They're supposed to have done so, after a huge fuss we had over these issues last year. After you give me the motherboard models, BIOS vendor, and BIOS version I can hopefully get this resolved. -Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.

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A8V, Suse 9.3 and BIOS memory remapping
by Siegbert Baude 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Hi, I just upgraded the BIOS of my A8V deluxe to the newest version (1014) und tried to boot with the Suse 9.3 Live-CD, distributed by the German magazine c't. If I activate "software memory hole" in the BIOS, I see only 3GB (with the "free" comand and also inside the BIOS system information) despite 4GB of physical RAM installed. dmesg says this: Linux version 2.6.11.4-20a-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bffb0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000bffb0000 - 00000000bffc0000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000bffc0000 - 00000000bfff0000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000bfff0000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable) Warning only 4GB will be used. Use a PAE enabled kernel. 3200MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. Just as clarification of terms: - What is HIGHMEM and LOWMEM and shouldn't they be called the other way round as the big part is counted from 0x00000000 on? - Isn't PAE for 32bit OS only (I booted the 64bit version)? So after all, would a full 64bit installation of 9.3 install a "PAE enabled kernel", so that I would see all 4GB of installed RAM? Is this a special choice then or simply the standard kernel? Thanks in advance for your help! Ciao Siegbert

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apache+php 64 calling elf32 exe
by Riccardo Ghiglianovich 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Hi all, I am new here; I have found that if I call an ELF32 Executable program from a php page loaded by a 64 bit PHP module then I obtain a shared library error, even if the program does not require the library. practical example: compile this ====== pro.c #include <stdio.h> main() { printf("Hello world\n"); } ------ cc -o pro -m32 pro.c then call it from a php page: ========= r.phtml <?php $s = "/tmp/pro 2>/tmp/er 1>&2"; echo "$s : "; $rrr=exec($s); echo `cat /tmp/er`; echo "<hr>"; // just to test that it works... $s = "ls -al /tmp 2>/tmp/er 1>&2"; echo "$s : "; $rrr=exec($s); echo `cat /tmp/er`; ?> ---- http://localhost/r,phtml issuee? Error?Bug? my fault??? Hints? I cannot recompile at 64 all my programs ... Thanks, regards, Ric

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Video goes blank for a couple of seconds and then comes back (SuSE 9.3)
by Pierre Patino 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Greetings I've been experiencing an annoyance since I built this box. Every once in a while, a few times per day, the video goes blank for a couple of seconds and then comes back as if nothing happened. I'm using the nvidia-supplied drivers and the digital video output. Any clues? TIA&Cheers uname -a : Linux lbox 2.6.11.4-21.7-default #2 Tue Jun 21 14:21:54 PDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux hwinfo --gfxcard: 27: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.273] Unique ID: VCu0.Hj+k_rvGEWB Parent ID: vSkL.CP+qXDDqow8 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia GeForce FX 5200 (0x0322)" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0322 "GeForce FX 5200 (0x0322)" Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "nvidia" Memory Range: 0xf6000000-0xf6ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xf7800000-0xf781ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 193 (2076818 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 3D Support: yes Color Depths: 16 Extensions: Options: Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=yes, active=unknown Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #27

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SK8N SUSE 9.3 problems
by Marcin Zalewski 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello, I am trying to install SUSE 9.3 on Asus SK8N motherboard running Opteron. I use the built-in Promise SATA controller with two disks in IDE mode. I was able to perfectly run SuSE 9.1 on this system for a long, long time. Now, with SuSE 9.3 I am not even able to get through the installation. It seems that the disk access causes the installation to hang sooner or later. When files are being copied the installation just freezes. It seems that this problem is not specific to SUSE. Any other distro with 2.6 kernel that I tried freezes in the same way as SUSE. Does anyone have a success story installing SUSE 9.3 on a similar setup? And also, is there some way that I can save kernel messages during installation? Thanks, Marcin Zalewski

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can't read DVD (solved)
by Mike Roy 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hello everyone: Just to bring you up to speed, I'm running SuSE 9.3 professional in 64-bit mode on an AMD 64 laptop. Recently I was experiencing problems with YaST (Yet another System Tool) as I couldn't install additional software packages. YaST couldn't 'see' the DVD and would report: ERROR (InstSrc: E_no_instsrc_on_media) [ /media.1/media ] This file ( /media.1/media ) contains text identifying the make and model of the software (SuSE 9.3, DVD 1). Somehow this file was corrupted on the laptop and this was preventing YaST from 'seeing' the DVD. However, after a clean install, everything worked. So, I assumed that the problem was with the YaST update packages and, on the next update, I avoided all of the YaST patches only to have the problem re-surface on the next reboot. After reading my posts, another user suggested I attempt another upgrade but not to upgrade the Linux kernel. This seems to have solved the problem. I did a fresh install - everything worked. I even used YaST's 'Check Media' program on the DVD - it got a clean bill of health. I then did an upgrade but I DID NOT upgrade the LINUX KERNEL. Well, after the upgrade and a re-boot - everything is working correctly. And YaST's Media Check gave the DVD another clean bill of health. So, there must be some sort of incompatibility problem between my machine and the kernel upgrade. Hope this helps. In closing, I would like to thank all of you who helped to solve this problem. It was a dilly. Cheers, Mike

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Wireless Help
by Mag Gam 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

I have an Acer 5002 WLMI laptop, and I am trying to get the wireless working. I have already installed ndis ndiswrapper-1.1-4 km_ndiswrapper-1.1-4 I am not too sure what I should do next. lspvi -v shows this about my card. 0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp.: Unknown device 0312 Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 4 Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] can someone please help? TIA

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Re: hwinfo --cpu (Tyan K8E) gives less GHZ than other motherboards <SOLVED>
by Pierre Patino 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Laurent GUERBY wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:47 -0700, Pierre Patino wrote: > >>I ran the test as you suggested. The result is the same -- 1.8GHz. Where >>did the 200MHz go? According to the BIOS settings, the powersaving >>feature is disabled. > > > Try something that really sucks cpu :) > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz > $ md5sum /dev/zero & > $ sleep 1 > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz > $ kill %1 # or whatever > > On my Athlon 64 3000+ cpuinfo goes from 1 GHz to 2 GHz. > > Does your BIOS report at boot the right Opteron model? > > The only problem with frequency I have with SuSE 9.3 is > that when I suspend to disk my laptop, after I resume > frequency is stuck at the lowest possible frequency > and I cannot seem to change it until I reboot, > but this is a Centrino 1.7 GHz so not amd64 :). > > Laurent > > OK, new BIOS for TYAN K8E. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 is rated for 1.8MHz. This checks out. Previous BIOS reported 1.0GHz. This puzzle has been "solved". On ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe, the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 is rated at 2.0GHz. This also checks out. Note to self: RTFM!

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RE: [suse-amd64] only root can access NTFS removable media??
by Scott, John 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Biltz [mailto:rbiltz@ncmir.ucsd.edu] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:07 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] only root can access NTFS removable media?? Hello All, I was happy to see that NTFS is supported out of the box with SuSE 9.3. However it seems only root is able to access the file system. I plugged in an external USB HD (NTFS) of mine while logged in as a normal user. The removable media icon showed up on the file browser but when i click to open and explore within it gave me an access denied error. When I log in as root I am able to browse and access the files. Also I am unable to modify any of the files or write new ones. Acts like a CD. I know there is no Write support for NTFS yet but I was hoping to at least have the ability to read my files as a normal user and not have to be root to access them. Is there a way to do this? Thanks for any Info. -ryan Ryan, You should only mount NTFS read-only for now. Go here to learn more: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html Towards the bottom of the FAQ are links to projects that are attempting NTFS read/write, but this is dangerous for the filesystem (work in progress), use at own risk. A better recommendation, format the external drive as FAT32 instead if you don't need NTFS for anything since Windows and Linux can both read/write FAT32. As for mounting the NTFS for normal users: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.10 You'll need to make some changes to the partition name that they use since you're mounting it as usb and not hda1 per their examples. Here is what is in my /etc/fstab for my ntfs partition: /dev/hda1 /windows ntfs ro,umask=0222,noauto,user,exec 0 0 John

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only root can access NTFS removable media??
by Ryan Biltz 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hello All, I was happy to see that NTFS is supported out of the box with SuSE 9.3. However it seems only root is able to access the file system. I plugged in an external USB HD (NTFS) of mine while logged in as a normal user. The removable media icon showed up on the file browser but when i click to open and explore within it gave me an access denied error. When I log in as root I am able to browse and access the files. Also I am unable to modify any of the files or write new ones. Acts like a CD. I know there is no Write support for NTFS yet but I was hoping to at least have the ability to read my files as a normal user and not have to be root to access them. Is there a way to do this? Thanks for any Info. -ryan

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RE: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64
by Black, Alain 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

The package is called linux32 http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/enterpriseserver/x86-64/lin ux32.html -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Black, Alain [mailto:ablack@bloodsystems.org] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:31 AM To: Mag Gam Cc: Bernd Paysan; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64 It's installed in /usr/bin in all of my SuSE and SLES 64bit installations. I do not know what package it is from. I would have to use a web search engine to find this but I have to run to a meeting right now. I'll search after the meeting if you don't have any luck finding it. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Mag Gam [mailto:magawake@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:20 PM To: Black, Alain Cc: Bernd Paysan; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64 Wow! thanks for the responses. ./linux32 bash does not even work...where are you getting this linux32 script/binary from? Has anyone able to compile MPlayer on AMD64 with fullscreen capabalities? If not, can you please try? TIA! On 8/26/05, Black, Alain <ablack(a)bloodsystems.org> wrote: > linux32 bash > > Then uname will not report the 64bit architecture anymore. > > Then you can " CC="gcc -m32" ./configure" > > Give that a shot. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernd Paysan [mailto:bernd.paysan@gmx.de] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:56 AM > To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64 > > On Friday 26 August 2005 14:57, Mag Gam wrote: > > Nope that does not work either... > > > > CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --host=i686-unknown-linux-gnu > > Just looked, MPlayer's configure uses uname to get the architecture, and > > doesn't use the config.guess from autoconfig - and therefore also > doesn't have the override parameters. A possibility would be to put a > fake uname into some location that's before /bin in the path. > > -- > Bernd Paysan > "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" > http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/ > > -- > Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe > For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com > > -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64
by Black, Alain 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

It's installed in /usr/bin in all of my SuSE and SLES 64bit installations. I do not know what package it is from. I would have to use a web search engine to find this but I have to run to a meeting right now. I'll search after the meeting if you don't have any luck finding it. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Mag Gam [mailto:magawake@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:20 PM To: Black, Alain Cc: Bernd Paysan; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64 Wow! thanks for the responses. ./linux32 bash does not even work...where are you getting this linux32 script/binary from? Has anyone able to compile MPlayer on AMD64 with fullscreen capabalities? If not, can you please try? TIA! On 8/26/05, Black, Alain <ablack(a)bloodsystems.org> wrote: > linux32 bash > > Then uname will not report the 64bit architecture anymore. > > Then you can " CC="gcc -m32" ./configure" > > Give that a shot. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernd Paysan [mailto:bernd.paysan@gmx.de] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:56 AM > To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64 > > On Friday 26 August 2005 14:57, Mag Gam wrote: > > Nope that does not work either... > > > > CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --host=i686-unknown-linux-gnu > > Just looked, MPlayer's configure uses uname to get the architecture, and > > doesn't use the config.guess from autoconfig - and therefore also > doesn't have the override parameters. A possibility would be to put a > fake uname into some location that's before /bin in the path. > > -- > Bernd Paysan > "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" > http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/ > > -- > Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe > For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com > >

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Suspend/ Resume on Suse 9.3 x86_64 on Acer Ferrari 4005 not working
by Farrukh Najmi 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

I am new to Suse 9.3 x86_64 and I like it very much. I would love to have suspend resume work on my laptop. I was delighted to see that Suse 9.3 x86_64 seems to have support for it in KPowerSave "Suspend to Disk" menu. However, when I run it, the screen writes some text but never goes blank and system never shuts down entirely. I then do a hard reset by holding down the power key. When I reboot it appears to just start as if it were never suspended. What am I missing? Thanks. -- Regards, Farrukh

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RE: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64
by Black, Alain 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

linux32 bash Then uname will not report the 64bit architecture anymore. Then you can " CC="gcc -m32" ./configure" Give that a shot. -----Original Message----- From: Bernd Paysan [mailto:bernd.paysan@gmx.de] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:56 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] MPlayer amd64 On Friday 26 August 2005 14:57, Mag Gam wrote: > Nope that does not work either... > > CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --host=i686-unknown-linux-gnu Just looked, MPlayer's configure uses uname to get the architecture, and doesn't use the config.guess from autoconfig - and therefore also doesn't have the override parameters. A possibility would be to put a fake uname into some location that's before /bin in the path. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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MPlayer amd64
by Mag Gam 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Was anyone able to configure Mplayer with full screen on AMD64 processors? I am getting these errors when I run ./configure ============ Checking for X11 ============ #include <X11/Xlib.h> #include <X11/Xutil.h> int main(void) { (void) XCreateWindow(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0); return 0; } cc /tmp/mplayer-conf-19026-31791.c -o /tmp/mplayer-conf-18745-31791.o -I/usr/X11/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -lnsl /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXe xt.so when searching for -lXext /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXe xt.a when searching for -lXext /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ldd /tmp/mplayer-conf-18745-31791.o ldd: /tmp/mplayer-conf-18745-31791.o: No such file or directory Result is: no ########################################## ============ Checking for Xv ============ Result is: no ##########################################

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Cursor theme X - gnome - kde
by Ron Lau 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

This is driving me batty. How do I change the gnome cursor theme? How do I change the X cursor theme? I can change the KDE one no problem. -- R.

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Odd situation when installing SuSE Pro 9.3 on Tyan 2895
by rrpalma＠synopsis.ws 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hello, I'm setting up a Tyan 2895 with dual 250's, 2 SATA HD, 2 GB Kingston RAM, BIOS 1.01. At the end of the SuSE install, you're given the option to test the connection to the Internet, and download the latest release notes. Both work fine. Then you're given the choice to perform an online update via YOU. This is when things get weird: Most of the time (I've done this a few times), after a while of downloading the updates, the process will just freeze. I found out that what happens is that both ethernet ports simply stop receiving. When I get to another virtual console, I cannot ping the nearby machines (request times out). Both ports simply stop working. It is necessary to physically cut the power for the ports to work again. So far, it only happens with YOU. I know the switch and cables are not to blame (and neither the internet connection) for this problem does not happen while installing 9.3 on a 2885 on the same segment. Any ideas? Thanks ________________________________________ 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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Correct CPU mhZ
by Mag Gam 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

I am running SuSE Linux 9.3 on a laptop. My MhZ seems to be wrong for this type of processor. Can someone please confirm? processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 36 model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-30 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 800.046 cache size : 1024 KB 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 pni syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm bogomips : 1581.05 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp [4] [5] TIA!

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Lockups with SuSE 9.3 + Quadro FX 3400 + HP xw9300 + 7676
by Ken Siersma 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi there, Well I'm at it again, you may remember my troubles with getting the NVidia drivers to work on an HP xw9300 workstation with SuSE 9.2 back in April. The machine is back in my office again, and I'm giving it another shot. I'm also posting this message in the nvnews forums, but I was hoping I might get some help here too (Thanks in advance Kevin and the rest of you): I'm trying to get the 7676 x86-64 driver running on SuSE 9.3 on an HP xw9300 (dual Opteron 250s, 8 GB RAM, nForce Professional 2200 chipset. I've been experiencing two different lockups. One involves only an Xid: Aug 24 16:53:16 ekk2 kernel: NVRM: Xid: 25, L1 -> L0 Aug 24 16:53:16 ekk2 kernel: NVRM: Xid: 13, 0005 beef3097 00004097 00001748 00000000 00000002 This error locks up my opengl app momentarily, but the X server has always recovered so far. The other error I get starts with this message in the log: Aug 24 17:05:26 ekk2 kernel: NVRM: not remapping 0x1000 bytes, 0x3c00000 total Aug 24 17:05:26 ekk2 kernel: NVRM: VM: nv_vm_malloc_pages: failed to sg map pages Aug 24 17:05:26 ekk2 kernel: ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] --------- Aug 24 17:05:26 ekk2 kernel: Kernel BUG at pageattr:154 Aug 24 17:05:26 ekk2 kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [1] SMP Aug 24 17:05:26 ekk2 kernel: CPU 1 This error is more serious (and it seems to be more frequent too), as the X server never recovers and I have to shut down remotely. For some reason nvidia-bug-report.sh never finishes with the second error either. I've attached a bug report generated after the Xid error (bug report at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=13077). Please let me know if you have any insight. Thank you, Ken

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Is 10.0 Beta ontopic here?
by Siegbert Baude 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi, just a short question, is this mailing list also intended for discussion about the 10.0 Beta version or should anything with regard to this topic go to the relevant bug system? I just checked, that my problem with the 4GB BIOS memory remapping on my A8V is still there, even with Beta 2, and wanted to report this to the appropriate folks. Ciao Siegbert

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Cant find Gnome
by Langsley 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all. I am unable to find any way of accessing the gnome desktop. It isn't offered as an option on logout/end session. I don't see any way to log into it at startup. Yast tells me that gnome is installed but I can find no way to boot into it. What am I doing wrong? Why can't I find it? Is there some other way I change the settings for things like fonts and default email program for gnome other than booting into it?? -- LTR bulloved(a)nitline.com

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libfam.la error with kkbswitch in suse 9.3
by Argiris Mokios 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello, I am trying to install kkbswitch but things aren't going as planned. I am configuring with: $ ./configure -with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/ -x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64/ and I get: $ Good - your configure finished. Start make now But when I try: $ make I am getting the following error $ libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libfam.la' $ make[2]: *** [kkbswitch] Error 1 The library libfam.la is situated in /usr/lib64/. There is no 32 bit libfam.la. Any ideas? Thanx._ -- Argiris Mokios Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki Faculty of Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Electronics and Computers Dept. Thessaloniki, 54124, GREECE Tel: (30)2310994174 email: amok(a)auth.gr

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RAID
by Chad Whiting 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello, I have recently acquired an adaptec 2230slp card and want to setup a RAID array. The documentation for the card says that SuSE will not see the controller as a boot device? I am using SuSE 9.1 x86_64 and want to just migrate to a RAID. I was wondering if anyone had experience with this card, and what would the best way be to migrate to a raid from an existing install? Thanks in advance. -- Chad Whiting

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Hard drive crash
by Hilary Hertzoff 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I'm not having any luck with google - I suspect it's a terminology problem. I had a bad hard drive crash last weekend. KDE froze to the point that I needed to do a hard reboot (the problem turned out to be a memory stick that was loose). Tried to repair it using a SuSE boot disk and the repair option under install. This made things worse. 2 partitions - /dev/hda1 is a linux swap and /dev/hda2 is a bootable reiserfs (kicking myself now that I didn't make home a separate partition). My current state is that if I try to boot that drive, I get a Grub error 16. I can't get into Grub to edit it. SuSE recognizes the partitions but fails when I try mounting the partition on another drive, repair using the tools under installation or update. I've used a rescue cd to check the disk with fdisk and gnu-parted - they agree on the partitions but gnu-parted is reporting that I have 2 TB of space used on a 163GB partition. I have no clue what to do next. Should I try resizing the partition and hope it "deletes" the extra used space or is there some other way to force a recheck or reindex of the partition. System Details: X86_64 on a MSI K8T Neo FIS2R motherboard. 1024kb ram now properly installed and being recognized. The drive in question is made by Hitachi but I don't have the details handy. However, I don't think any of this should matter since the problem doesn't seem to be hardware related. Thanks Hilary Hilary L. Hertzoff From here to there, Mamaroneck Public Library a bunny goes where a bunny must. Mamaroneck, NY - Little Bunny on the Move hhertzof(a)panix.com by Peter McCarty

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sound quit working.
by Bill Allen 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Recently sound has quit working. I don't believe that this is a hardware problem since it works when booted into another OS. I installed 9.3 recently, but sound was working fine after that stopping at some point since. Back when I was on 9.1, I had done a snapshot of /proc/interrupts: cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 738208 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 379 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 24226 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 71993 IO-APIC-edge ide2 15: 20598 IO-APIC-edge ide3 16: 43548 IO-APIC-level ohci1394, nvidia 17: 2157 IO-APIC-level SysKonnect SK-98xx 18: 0 IO-APIC-level libata 19: 177 IO-APIC-level ICE1712 21: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd When I do it now, I get a much different picture: CPU0 0: 2050795 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 1695 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 45384 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 87102 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 34629 IO-APIC-edge ide1 169: 0 IO-APIC-level libata 177: 0 IO-APIC-level libata 185: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd 193: 3687 IO-APIC-level eth0 201: 126505 IO-APIC-level ohci1394, nvidia 209: 22758 IO-APIC-level ICE1712 NMI: 223 LOC: 2050226 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 The sound card has gone from irq 19 to irq 209. Could this have anything to do with my problem? I tried going to YAST to configure it, but YAST informs me that: "The kernel module snd-ice1712 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters." Any ideas what could be going on? How do I change the module parameters assuming I can figure out what needs to be changed? Regards, Bill

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lm_sensors with Suse 9.1 errors
by James D. Parra 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello, After installing the modules suggested from sensors-detect, "sensors" get the following errors; adm1027-i2c-2-2e Adapter: SMBus AMD756 adapter at 50e0 Algorithm: Unavailable from sysfs ERROR: Can't get alarm mask data! ERROR: Can't get IN0 data! ERROR: Can't get IN1 data! ERROR: Can't get IN2 data! ERROR: Can't get IN3 data! ERROR: Can't get IN4 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN1 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN2 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN3 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN4 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP1 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP2 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP3 data! ERROR: Can't get PWM1 data! ERROR: Can't get PWM2 data! ERROR: Can't get PWM3 data! w83627hf-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter Algorithm: ISA algorithm ERROR: Can't get IN0 data! ERROR: Can't get IN1 data! ERROR: Can't get IN2 data! ERROR: Can't get IN3 data! ERROR: Can't get IN4 data! ERROR: Can't get IN5 data! ERROR: Can't get IN6 data! ERROR: Can't get IN7 data! ERROR: Can't get IN8 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN1 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN2 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN3 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP1 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP2 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP3 data! ERROR: Can't get VID data! alarms: Chassis intrusion detection ALARM beep_enable: Sound alarm disabled Any clues on how to resolve this? Motherboard Tyan S2882 K8SPro support dual Opterons. Thank you in advance, ~James

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Mouse, KB and monitor pausing in w2100z suse 9.2 and 9.3
by Ryan Biltz 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello All, Like clock work, every 5 seconds the w2100z systems pause for a fraction of a second then hurries to catch up to where it thinks it should be. The result is the mouse stops and jumps across the screen. The keyboard double types a letter(annoying when entering passwords). With glxgears, the gears seem to stop and go every 5 seconds. Any help would be appreciated. We have about 20 of these systems and many of them run suse 9.3. --ryan

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laptop DVD mount
by Mike Roy 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit mode on an AMD 64 laptop. The laptop has a combination CD reader / writer and a DVD reader only. If I'm doing a fresh install, the machine will correctly boot from the DVD and I can do the install. The machine can also boot from a CD and successfully mount both music and data CDs and also burn CDs (this machine will not burn a DVD nor am I trying to do this). The problem is when I'm trying to install additional programs from the DVD with YAST. I identify the program(s), insert the SuSE 9.3 DVD 1 and then the machine repeatedly keeps asking me to insert DVD 1 on /dev/hdc (which is already in the drive!!!!!). When burning CDs, the machine asks for a blank media and clearly shows the CD/DVD as /dev/hdc. In the 'fstab' file, the CD is shown as /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss, ro, procid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 In the SuSE suppoert database, there is an entry suggesting a manual 'mount' [auto] instead of the automatic [subfs] mount (fstab entry from SuSE knowledge database shown below) /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Any ideas greatly appreciated as I'm not sure what I'm doing or not doing Cheers, Mike

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RE: [suse-amd64] Browser crashing system
by Black, Alain 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

NVIDIA released new Linux AMD64 drivers on August 9th that you may wish to try. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-7676.html -----Original Message----- From: Volkmar Glauche [mailto:volkmar.glauche@uniklinik-freiburg.de] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 12:07 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Browser crashing system On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated! > > It sounds like a X server problem. If you use any of the unsupported > binary only X servers like ATI firegl or nvidia binary only > driver you might want to disable that. Same problems here - Fujitsu SIEMENS Scaleo T with GeForce 6600 and X.Org drivers. I have not tried the Nvidia binary only drivers yet. Volkmar -- Volkmar Glauche - Department of Neurology volkmar.glauche(a)uniklinik-freiburg.de Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg Phone 49(0)761-270-5331 Breisacher Str. 64 Fax 49(0)761-270-5416 79106 Freiburg -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Browser crashing system
by Langsley 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hi All. I'm running 9.3 as installed from the DVD on an Athlon 64-3500+ Venice with 1 gig of ram and a WD raptor SATA hd, and a dialup modem. I'm having an ongoing problem with any browser I use. The result is always the same but the exact cause varies. Sometimes the cause is just trying to open a web site, some time it is clicking on a link in a site, sometimes it is clicking on a link in an email, sometimes it is simply adding a site to my bookmarks. It seems to be just about anything but no one thing all the time. One time a site will open fine the next time it won't etc. The result is that when attempting one of the above mentioned actions or virtually any other in a browser, the screen will either go white, or change to a sort of multicolored tweed pattern, or a series of large orange colored blocks with bits of previously visited web pages in them with only the three control boxes in the upper right hand corner still visible. These remain usable so that I can shut down the browser. However after shutting down the browser I get what ever of the three previously mentioned backgrounds in my email client preview pane with no way of reading the email which should be there. It appears to similarly affect OOo. The only way I can get full functionality back is to either end the session and start another or to reboot. Even there when I click on log out I get the log out dialog surrounded by one of the random, all white, tweed, or block pattern background patterns. This happens no matter whether I'm using Firefox. Konqueror, or Mozilla. Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated! -- LTR bulloved(a)nitline.com

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LSI Megaraid 320-2x corruption
by Kelly Burkhart 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

I am running SuSE 9.3 on a dual Opteron 246 system (Tyan Thunder K8SR (S2881)). This machine has been running fine for several weeks using the on board SCSI controllers & SW RAID. We installed the LSI MegaRAID 320-2X controller with the TBBU03 battery backup and reinstalled SuSE 9.3. The installation did not go flawlessly: - Towards the end of the NFS installation, copying stopped. I switched consoles and noticed that I couldn't ping any other addresses in our network. I brought the ethernet interface down then back up and the installation resumed. - After the install, both megaraid and megaraid_mbox modules were loaded. I removed megaraid from INITRD_MODULES and ran mkinitrd. At this point we considered the installation suspect, but pressed on with testing. Now the corruption: One user was compiling code, another user was loading a database. After some time, g++ started getting internal compiler errors in cc1plus. I compared the checksum of this program with another install and they were different. I reinstalled gcc, verified checksums and everything worked for a while. Then internal compiler errors and bogus checksum again. I did not see anything alarming in the log files. So I booted into rescue mode and ran reiserfsck --check without any problems. Flashed the controller with the latest firmware and booted again. This time I set up a 'make clean; make' loop and watched it for about two hours without any problems. Then I started creating 4GB files with dd and deleting them and within 15 minutes another internal compiler error. Questions: - Does anyone run a similar setup without problems? - Has anyone seen similar problems? - Can anyone provide me some direction in tracking down this problem? Thanks, -K

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Re: disk speed tips (was Re: [SLE] poor disk performance on 9.3 relative to 9.1)
by Kelly Burkhart 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 15:54 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > This ended up way longer than I intended, but it covers > several factors that can affect disk performance and I > wanted to try to give you a complete as list as I could > think of to look for areas of change, potential causes, > etc. Sorry it ended up so long though, it's a complex > subject and I probably forgot to mention some items as it > is...:-). This was hugely helpful. Thank you. I came in tonight to do some more controlled experimentation with two machines. One machine is SCSI based HW RAID. The other is IDE based SW RAID. On each machine I partitioned the disks like this: test1 partition 9.1 root swap test2 partition 9.3 root test3 partition I ran my 'dd' test three times on each partition from each SuSE version on the SCSI machine. The differences between 9.1 and 9.3 were small enough I cannot determine which one is faster. The IDE machine took so long to install 9.3 on, I took a break, checked my email and found this note from Linda. I discovered using hdparm that while both disks were using udma5, hda read speed was *much* slower than hdc. I used 'raidsetfaulty' to remove the slow drive from the RAID set and my hdparm reads and dd writes were vastly improved. Nearly all of the servers I have available to test on have already been upgraded to 9.3 and are IDE systems with SW RAID. The few comparable 9.1 machines I had to test were IDE systems, but not using SW RAID. Thus I incorrectly attributed the difference to the OS version. Thank you all for your help! -K

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hwinfo --cpu (Tyan K8E) gives less GHZ than other motherboards
by Pierre Patino 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

Hello I got a Tyan K8E and loaded SuSE 9.3 on it. With the original BIOS (1.0), hwinfo --cpu reports 1.0GHz. With the latest and greatest BIOS 2.01, hwinfo --cpu reports 1.8GHz. This is with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Two other motherboards (Gigabyte and Asus) report 2.0GHz with the same CPU. I wrote a device driver and also compared TSCs and jiffies and got the same results. Does anyone else see this? No answer from Tyan yet. TIA & Cheers

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poor disk performance on 9.3 relative to 9.1
by Kelly Burkhart 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hi, I've noticed a noticeable disk IO performance decrease in 9.3 vs. 9.1. To test I've been running the following command: time dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=500000 Here are some representative numbers for three fairly comparable machines: 9.1 machine: 2*Opteron 242, 2 GB RAM 2 IDE drives (hda,hdc) ST312022A in SW RAID 1 kernel: 2.6.5-7.145-smp dd time: 103seconds ~ 39.8MB/Sec 9.3 machine: 2*Opteron 242, 1 GB RAM 2 IDE drives (hda,hdc) ST3120026A in SW RAID 1 kernel: 2.6.11.4-20a-smp dd time: 608seconds ~ 6.7MB/Sec 9.3 machine 2*Opteron 246, 1 GB RAM 2 IDE drives (hda,hdc) ST3120026A in SW RAID 1 kernel: 2.6.11.4-20a-smp dd time: 228seconds ~ 17.9MB/Sec All machines were idle while running the test. All filesystems are Reiser 3.6. - Has anyone noticed a disk performance degradation moving from 9.1 to 9.3? - What can I do to track down the cause of the difference between the 9.1 machine and the two 9.3 machines as well as the fast vs. slow 9.3 machine? -K

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gcc with march=i686
by David Lazanja 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

When I try to compile a simple C program with -march=i686, I get the following error: cc1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set I have gcc-32bit installed. Any help appreciated. Thanks David -- # Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics # Columbia University

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permissions quiz
by Mike Roy 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hello everyone: As you may remember from 'dumb guy number 1', I saved my old /home/mike directory on a separate HD and was able to recover all of my working files. That's the good news. The bad news is that they all are now listed as ROOT everything (user, group). I know there's commands to change individual files, etc. (chmod, chown), but is there a way I can change the permissions of a directory and all of its contents without doing each file individually? Any ideas greatly appreciated. Otherwise I'll be here until Thanksgiving :-\ Cheers, Mike

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Display driver for MSI RS 480 on Suse 9.3
by Suraj Jacob 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hi, I recently purchased an MSI RS480 board and AMD Athlon 64 Fortunately, the installation had the SATA modules and I didnt have any trouble with the harddisks. But the display is still on framebuffer. I tried changing the driver to ati and raedon, but it didnt help, the X server dies saying no screens found. I am not sure if there is any other module that need to be installed. I guess someone on this list must have run into similar problems. If so, please help me. Thanks Suraj ____________________________________________________ Send a rakhi to your brother, buy gifts and win attractive prizes. Log on to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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mouse pauses every 5 seconds?
by Ryan Biltz 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I have a few Sun Java Desktop Systems (w2100z) with the dual AMD Opteron 250 processors and the Nvidia FX 3000 DH video card. I have the 7667 driver loaded. It's running SuSE 9.3 pro. I've noticed that there is a slight pause in mouse and monitor movement every 5 seconds or so then it jumps to catch up to where it should be. Does anyone have an idea what maybe causing this? TIA

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clean installed 9.3 blocks tcsh users
by Yoriaki FUJIMORI 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Dear listers, Recently I made clean installation of 9.3 on X2-based PC. Then I noticed that I cannot start desktop session properly. I have tried to find out what is wrong. Some of facts are as follows: (1) when users with tcsh as default shell (tcsh users) try to login to desktop, only xterm window without top bar appears. It is invoked as `xterm -T Failsafe'. (2) users with bash as defalut shell (bash users) have got no problem; they can start their desktop session very soon. (3) If the session is switched to Gnome-Failsafe, then tcsh users can start desktop session, with limited environment. (4) This phenomena do not appear on PCs running 9.3 upgraded from either 9.1 or 9.2. I made internet search, but I could not find a clue for my problem. I appreciate if some kind soul can give me pointers. Thanks for your attention. yoriaki fujimori

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fc system spewing warning messages
by Yogesh Bhanu 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi , I just bumped up my System SP2 from SP1 . and on boot the FC-System dissappeared . But with Qlogic SANSURFER I had to just map the luns again and all was back. But the system spews warning messages like the one listed below. System is Dual opteron 248 with qlogic 2312 attached to an IBM T600. ttached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(2:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. serio: kseriod exiting tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. tg3: eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth1: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. powernow-k8: Found 2 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.39.05) powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure powernow-k8: init not cpu 0 eth0: no IPv6 routers present eth1: no IPv6 routers present QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 28 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 28, iobase 0xffffff0000015000 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2300 0000:03:03.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2300 0000:03:03.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... scsi(3): Alloc Target 0 @ 00000100f727d000 scsi(3): Alloc Target 1 @ 00000100f8b97000 scsi(3): Alloc Target 2 @ 00000100f8f3d000 scsi(3): Alloc Target 3 @ 00000100f8b94000 scsi(3): **** Load RISC code **** qla2300 0000:03:03.0: Waiting for LIP to complete... scsi(3): Asynchronous P2P MODE received. scsi(3): Asynchronous LOOP UP (2 Gbps). qla2300 0000:03:03.0: LOOP UP detected (2 Gbps). scsi(3): Asynchronous PORT UPDATE. qla2300 0000:03:03.0: Topology - (F_Port), Host Loop address 0xffff scsi(3): RFT_ID exiting normally. scsi(3): RFF_ID exiting normally. scsi(3): RNN_ID exiting normally. scsi(3): RSNN_NN exiting normally. scsi(3): GID_PT entry - nn 200400a0b8163ace pn 200400a0b8163acf portid=010000. scsi(3): GID_PT entry - nn 200400a0b8163ace pn 200500a0b8163acf portid=010400. scsi(3): GID_PT entry - nn 200000e08b0ad239 pn 210000e08b0ad239 portid=010900. scsi(3): GID_PT entry - nn 200800a0b81711fa pn 200800a0b81711fb portid=010100. scsi(3): GID_PT entry - nn 200800a0b81711fa pn 200900a0b81711fb portid=010500. scsi(3): device wrap (010500) scsi(3): Assigning target ID=00 @ 00000100f727d000 to loop id=0x0081, port state=0x4, port down retry=24 scsi(3): Alloc Lun 0 @ tgt 0. scsi(3): Assigning target ID=01 @ 00000100f8b97000 to loop id=0x0082, port state=0x4, port down retry=24 scsi(3): Alloc Lun 0 @ tgt 1. scsi(3): Assigning target ID=02 @ 00000100f8f3d000 to loop id=0x0083, port state=0x4, port down retry=24 scsi(3): Alloc Lun 0 @ tgt 2. scsi(3): Alloc Lun 1 @ tgt 2. scsi(3): Alloc Lun 2 @ tgt 2. scsi(3): Assigning target ID=03 @ 00000100f8b94000 to loop id=0x0084, port state=0x4, port down retry=24 scsi(3): Alloc Lun 0 @ tgt 3. scsi(3): Alloc Lun 1 @ tgt 3. scsi(3): Alloc Lun 2 @ tgt 3. DEBUG: detect hba 3 at address = 00000100fb980328 scsi3 : qla2xxx qla2300 0000:03:03.0: QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.00.02 QLogic QLA2340 - ISP2312: PCI-X (133 MHz) @ 0000:03:03.0 hdma+, host#=3, fw=3.03.11 IPX Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:0:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(3): Asynchronous PORT UPDATE ignored. scsi(3): Asynchronous PORT UPDATE ignored. Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 31 scsi(3:0:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:1:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi3, channel 0, id 1, lun 0, type 31 scsi(3:1:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:2:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. SCSI device sdb: 487545184 512-byte hdwr sectors (249623 MB) scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi3, channel 0, id 2, lun 0, type 0 scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:2:1): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sdc: 4269799374 512-byte hdwr sectors (2186137 MB) scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: sdc1 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 2, lun 1 Attached scsi generic sg4 at scsi3, channel 0, id 2, lun 1, type 0 Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:2:2): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sdd: 3527417856 512-byte hdwr sectors (1806038 MB) scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. sdd: sdd1 Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi3, channel 0, id 2, lun 2 scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. Attached scsi generic sg5 at scsi3, channel 0, id 2, lun 2, type 0 Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:3:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sde: 487545184 512-byte hdwr sectors (249623 MB) scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. sde: sde1 Attached scsi disk sde at scsi3, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg6 at scsi3, channel 0, id 3, lun 0, type 0 scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:3:1): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. SCSI device sdf: 4269799374 512-byte hdwr sectors (2186137 MB) scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. sdf: sdf1 Attached scsi disk sdf at scsi3, channel 0, id 3, lun 1 Attached scsi generic sg7 at scsi3, channel 0, id 3, lun 1, type 0 Vendor: IBM Model: 1722-600 Rev: 0520 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 qla2300 0000:03:03.0: scsi(3:0:3:2): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. SCSI device sdg: 3527417856 512-byte hdwr sectors (1806038 MB) scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. sdg: sdg1 Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi3, channel 0, id 3, lun 2 Attached scsi generic sg8 at scsi3, channel 0, id 3, lun 2, type 0 scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:2:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:255:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:1) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. scsi(3:3:2) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x800. SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem XFS mounting filesystem dm-0 Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: dm-0 The system comes up fine with SP1 and the earlier configuration. I had to use SanSurfer once more to reconfigure the system. For some reason The settings are not being retained when switching between SLES 9 and SP2 and same is repeated between SP1 and SP2 though if I switch between SLES 9 and SP1 the system comes up fine and there are no warning messages. any pointers what is causing this yogesh

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Network interface timeout
by Kevin Wilson 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

System: SuSE 9.2 x86-64 Pro AMD Opteron Tyan s2875anrf w/ onboard NIC. max open files still set at default 1024. Yesterday the server wouldn't respond to ping or accept new connections for about 25-30 minutes. The server was up and running but for some reason the NIC decided it didn't want to communicate for a while then it came back. Our server monitors reported the downtime. Anyone know why this occurred?

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LSI MegaRAID Monitor HOW-TO v2 for SuSe 9.1-9.3
by Brad Dameron 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Sorry for a repost. I didn't include some important parts for this how-to. First off get this package from LSI. http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/license.do?id=2000&did=7776&pid=2411 It is the driver package for SuSe 9.1. In that driver package is a directory called Utilities/MegaMON. In MegaMON is a file named lsi_v35.tgz. Do a tar -xzvf lsi_v35.tgz. This is the monitor app you will need. Then do a "./install -suse". This will install the binaries and install the startup script of raidmon in /etc/init.d and set itself to start on the runlevels 2,3,4,5. If the raidmon script does not get installed just copy it to the /etc/init.d directory. I have modified my raidmon file to include some other items. Below is mine: ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # # chkconfig: 2345 20 80 # description: RAIDMon is a daemon that monitors the RAID subsystem # And generates e-mail to root # processname: MegaServ. # source function library . /lib/lsb/init-functions case "$1" in start) megadevice="megadev0" rm -f /dev/$megadevice 2>/dev/null megamajor=`cat /proc/devices|gawk '/megadev/{print$1}' ` mknod /dev/$megadevice c $megamajor 0 2>/dev/null # New check: 10-31-01: Does node exist if [ ! -c /dev/$megadevice ] then echo " Character Device Node /dev/$megadevice does not exist. Raid Monitor could not be started " exit 1 fi echo -n 'Starting RAID Monitor:' startproc /usr/sbin/MegaCtrl -start > /dev/null sleep 1 ; MegaCtrl -disMail touch /var/lock/subsys/raidmon MegaCtrl -enChkCon # check consistency on a Saturday at 01:00 very 4 weeks MegaCtrl -cons -h01 -w4 -d6 echo ;; stop) echo -n 'Stopping RAID Monitor:' startproc /usr/sbin/MegaCtrl -stop megadevice="megadev0" rm -f /dev/$megadevice 2>/dev/null rm -f /var/lock/subsys/raidmon 2>/dev/null echo ;; restart|reload) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "RAID Monitor is not Started/Stopped" echo "Usage: raidmon {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 esac exit 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Then just start the raidmon. "/etc/init.d/raidmon start". The above changes tell my system to do a consistency check once a month at 1:00am. This makes sure my RAID5 is working like it should. Also note there will be a log file of /var/log/megaserv.log. Next create this file "/usr/local/sbin/check_raid.sh" for checking the logfile for errors: --- START SCRIPT --- #!/bin/sh # Simple RAID check script. Relies on consistency check run by /etc/init.d/raidmon at # 01:00 every day. # This is then run by roots crontab at 04:30 everyday. HOST=`hostname` MAILTO="<your email>" if grep -iq fail /var/log/megaserv.log then date | mail -s "$HOST has a RAID array problem" $MAILTO fi exit 0 --- END SCRIPT --- Then setup a cron job to check the log file for errors every hour or whatever time you want. I check every day at 4:30am. Some might want to check more often. As root do a "crontab -e". Then enter: # Check for any reported RAID array errors 30 4 * * * /usr/local/sbin/check_raid.sh I use this setup on about a dozen production machines. It works perfectly. This will work on 32bit and 64bit machines. Brad Dameron Systems Administrator SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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Re: [SLE] permissions quiz, part 2 (solved)
by Mike Roy 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hello everyone: Thanks for all the help. Problem solved. I used the 'chown -R' command and it worked. I've checked a number of different files in different folders and had full access, etc., to all of them. If there are some files with problems, I haven't found them yet. Again, thanks for all the help. Much appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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wallpaper directory
by Mike Roy 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hello everyone: Under SuSE 9.1, the wallpapers were under . . . /.kde/share/wallpapers. Under SuSE 9.3, this path / directory doesn't seem to exist anymore. Does anyone know where the /wallpaper directory is so I can add some of my favorites to it? Cheers, Mike

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dumb guy number 1
by Mike Roy 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hi everyone: Some good news - I've been able to recover working files from my old /mike directory. Seems I forgot to creat a 'mount' point for the HD. I deserve one wack with a wet noodle. Mea Culpa. Cheers, Mike

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recovery hiccup
by Mike Roy 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hello everyone: Well, it doesn't rain but not pour. My great idea simply didn't work. For whatever reason, I can't get to the 30GB HD where I copied my original desktop. The only good news is that many of the files are on floppies (remember them) and I am able to recover some, but not all, of the working files. A pain to be sure. Thanks for all the help but, without access to the other HD, my efforts are in vain. Again, thanks for all the help. Cheers (well, a slight frown ;-| ) Mike

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How to get the most recent X86_64 smp kernel ?
by lanas＠securenet.net 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hi all, I've followed the tip written by Stefan to avoid the "Aiee, trying to kill interrupt handler" or somesuch fatal error message at reboot after install. That is, when installing SuSE 9.3 I've chosen to remove the SMP kernel and use the defult one. Now the machine (MSI K8N nforce4 SLI with X2 dual core) boot fine after reboot and I need to replace the default kernel with the smp flavour. Obviously, getting the kernel from the DV leads to the same fatal error. So how can one get a more recent X6_64 kernel for SuSE 9.3 ? Wkere's the download site and what#s the replacement procedure ? Should I simply install the eventual rpm file and ovrewrite the present kernel or should I delete the kernel first ? Some one can share pointers to that effect ? Thanks.

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recovery hiccup
by Mike Roy 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hello everyone: Well, seems there's trouble right here in River City :-( I was planning to do a fresh install on my AMD 64 / SuSE 9.3 desktop machine and decided to save my '/home/mike' directory on a separate hard drive (which I did). I then performed a basic install and then copied the 'saved' /home/mike directory to replace the /home/mike directory created during the install. Not sure what I did or didn't do but when I tried to open the files or use the devices, I kept getting KDE error messages (will not save configuration). I have now done anohter clean install but, if possible, would like to use the 'saved' /home/mike directory. Not sure if this is a permissions problem or what. The old directory is still on the separate hard drive so I do have access to it. During the last corrputed install, I was able to save important working files to my laptop so all is not lost. It would be nice if I could salvage my earlier settings, etc., as this would save me a lot of grief. Any ideas. I did offer Tux a sacrifice of dandylions and some dead bugs - not sure if this will help ;-) Cheers, Mike

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Testkernels for sound problem in 9.3 update
by Andi Kleen 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

For people who had problems with the broken sound after the latest 9.3 update kernel. Please test the kernel in ftp.suse.com:/pub/people/ak/test1/ and report success/failure to me. I'm only interested in sound problems right now. Thanks. -Andi

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IGNORE: -> RE: [suse-amd64] Network interface timeout
by Kevin Wilson 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Turns out it was a homemade patch cable that decided to start flaking out all the sudden ... had to slap my network admin upside the head. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Wilson Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:48 PM To: Suse-Amd64 (E-mail) Subject: [suse-amd64] Network interface timeout System: SuSE 9.2 x86-64 Pro AMD Opteron Tyan s2875anrf w/ onboard NIC. max open files still set at default 1024. Yesterday the server wouldn't respond to ping or accept new connections for about 25-30 minutes. The server was up and running but for some reason the NIC decided it didn't want to communicate for a while then it came back. Our server monitors reported the downtime. Anyone know why this occurred? -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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You (amd64 PC) and OpenOffice 2.0beta
by zio budda 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi all. I have Suse 9.3 Pro for 64bit. I want to upgrade my OpenOffice version via Yast/You. I select the Gwdg.de mirror, but yast/you does not found the news version of OpenOffice in the repositery, but the new files exists: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.3/rpm/i586/ Example: [ ] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586.patch.rpm 21-Jul-2005 16:12 84.6M [ ] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586.rpm 21-Jul-2005 15:42 97.5M [TXT] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586_de.info 21-Jul-2005 17:07 1k [TXT] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586_en.info 21-Jul-2005 17:07 1k [ ] OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter-1.0-471.2.i586.patc..> 21-Jul-2005 16:21 86k .... Why Yast does not found the new version ? I have not the new version installed into my machine: #rpm -qa | grep OpenOffice OpenOffice_org-1.9.79-9.2 ... Please, help me. Tnx. M.

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xine on AMD64
by Alex 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hi I'm using SuSE professional 9.3 on a AMD64. To be able to watch DVD's, I compiled Xine from sources with the needed packages. Compiling xine-lib and xine-ui doesn't make any problems, but after launching xine, I have the foolowing error message: Cannot open display "*". Segmentation fault. After I changed the DISPLAY Variable to 127.0.0.1 and exported it, the first error message doesn't appear, but I get the segfault again. The interesting thing is that DVD's could be read in kaffeine without problems, so I think the problem is in xine-ui. Has anybody a hint?? Thanx Al

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OpenSUSE launched - with 10.0 x86-64 Beta1
by Andreas Jaeger 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Sorry for the short announcement. We have now launched openSUSE and released SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta1 to the public. We support as usual 64-bit x86-64 (AMD64 and EM64T) and 32-bit x86 systems. All ISOs and FTP trees have been synced out. The ISOs do not contain sources, they are only part of the FTP tree inside the "inst-source" directory. Please note that the OSS edition of SUSE Linux 10.0 do only contain open source software. Therefore java and depending packages are missing atm. This does also include OpenOffice.org for now. We do definitively not want to lock out the open source Java community, so we decided to offer these with an extra YaST installation source on our server ("inst-source-java" directory). OpenOffice.org does live there also. This package repository can be added in the YaST "Installation Source" manager as additionally source. General download instructions and mirrors can get found on this page http://opensuse.org/index.php/Download Have fun and keep in mind to read the "most annoying bugs" page before your download ;) http://opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs%3Amost_annoying_bugs 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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logitech v500 mouse on athlon64 laptop
by Len Zaifman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I just purchased what looked like a very neat mouse for my laptop. The logitech V500 looked to be what I would like in a mouse for my laptop. However, I could not get Suse Linux 9.3 Pro to recognise the device. (uname -ar reports Linux genetraveller 2.6.11.4-21.7-default #1 Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) The usb port sees the device and reports it as a logitech receiver, but I cannot get the mouse to work. Is this a known issue or do I need to return the mouse? details lsusb -v -s 1:3 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c510 Logitech, Inc. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x046d Logitech, Inc. idProduct 0xc510 bcdDevice 34.10 iManufacturer 1 Logitech iProduct 2 USB Receiver iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 34 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xa0 Remote Wakeup MaxPower 50mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 2 Mouse iInterface 0 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.10 bCountryCode 0 Not supported bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 95 Report Descriptors: ** UNAVAILABLE ** Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 10 -- Len Zaifman Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems Centre for Computational Biology Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 leonardz(a)sickkids.ca (416)813-5513

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fdisking large volumes
by Harald Milz 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, When playing with a dual Opteron box with a large RAID5 (6 TB) attached I noticed a couple of very strange things with fdisk. Distro is SL93 on the latest YOU level. When a volume (say, /dev/sdb) is larger than 2 TB fdisk does not allow me to create partitions bigger than 1.2 TB, and it does not allow me to assign the remaining space to more partitions. When the volume is smaller, I can assign the whole volume to a single partition (e.g. 1.4 TB). Maybe 64 Bit LBA is the bad guy. We tried two SATA RAID Adapters: - Areco ARC-1160. This one allows you to create volumes smaller than 2 GB with standard LBA (32 Bit), > 2 TB with 64 Bit LBA, and a mode "For Windows" whatever this means. - 3ware 9500S 8mi. Ths controller does not allow you to create volumes at all, you get always the entire RAID as a volume. Very spartanic if you ask me. What's going on here? TIA -- Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your chairs.

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Re: [suse-amd64] KInternet problems
by sean-lynch＠sean-lynch.com 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I believe what you need is in Yast, under one of the modem setup screens. It is probably written in one of the wvdial configuration files, but Yast should be the easiest way. Here is the page from the manual: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/suse9.3/suselinux-adminguide_en… check section 22.4.2. Good Luck, Sean --------------------------------------------- On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:30:40 -0500 Langsley <bulloved(a)nitline.com> wrote: > sean-lynch(a)sean-lynch.com wrote: >> Kinternet is a front end for wvdial, so when you use >>kinternet your >> are using wvdial. >> >> Check the "idle time" setting. If your disconnect is due >>to the idle >> time, setting it to zero disables this. >> >> turn on the log, this will print a message if there is >>an error >> causing the disconnect, and not just the idle time >>setting, the log >> might point to a cause. >> >> Sean >> >> >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:53:24 -0500 >> Langsley <bulloved(a)nitline.com> wrote: >>> First, thanks to all who offered assistance with my >>>logout hell >>> problem! I now have things configured correctly.and log >>>out works as >>> it should. >>> >>> Now for the question/s du jour: >>> How can I get KInternet to stop disconnecting my modem >>>about every >>> five to ten minutes? >>> >>> Also, I've read that wvdial is a better program. YAST >>>shows that I >>> have wvdial installed but I can't find it. It isn't >>>listed under >>> Internet> dial up on my main menu as KInternet is. Where >>>should I >>> look for this program (wvdial)? Any other suggestions >>>are, of course, >>> most welcome. >>> >>> TIA. >>> >>> LTR > Hi Sean and thanks for your assistance. I discovered by >reading the log that wvdial and KInternet are actually >one and the same, or as you say one is the front end for >the other. You suggested that I look at "the 'idle time' >setting". I am unable to find such a setting or listing >under the settings for the KInternet program. Is it >located somewhere else? > > Again, thanks for your help. > > -- > LTR > bulloved(a)nitline.com

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KInternet problems
by Langsley 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

First, thanks to all who offered assistance with my logout hell problem! I now have things configured correctly.and log out works as it should. Now for the question/s du jour: How can I get KInternet to stop disconnecting my modem about every five to ten minutes? Also, I've read that wvdial is a better program. YAST shows that I have wvdial installed but I can't find it. It isn't listed under Internet> dial up on my main menu as KInternet is. Where should I look for this program (wvdial)? Any other suggestions are, of course, most welcome. TIA. LTR

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Re: [suse-amd64] Please help -- No sound after kernel upgrade to2.6.11.4-21.8 (fwd)
by Michael Traxler 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hello, I have the same problem (after rebooting!), but with a i386 system. alsaconf and recompilation of alsa-drivers and alsa-utils didn't help at all. The only thing which helped immediately was a downgrade to linux-2.6.11.4-20a. Sound works after reboot! System: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25) 0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller 0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 0000:00:0c.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH A1 ISDN [Fritz] (rev 02) 0000:00:0d.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 01) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (Secondary) Sound module is: snd_intel8x0 No Messages in /var/log/messages when sound was *not* working. Michael Traxler

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Re: [suse-amd64] 9.1 to 9.3 disaster area
by Sue Street 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Sue Street wrote: > Gave up - gone to Gentoo - no more non-functional $150 SUSE for me. > > Sue Street wrote: > >> I've loaded 9.3 onto my machine. Is there any way I can go back to 9.1? >> This is because the only detectable improvement with 9.3 is that I >> can tell it to release the USB memory stick. >> ... > > >

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Please help -- No sound after kernel upgrade to 2.6.11.4-21.8
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I have a dual Opteron 254 (2.4 GHz) machine with Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885 ANRF). The BIOS is AMIBIOS version V2-05 build The original operating system was SuSE 9.3 with Linux 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. Because of the security alert from SuSE watcher I upgraded the SuSE 9.3 kernel from 2.6.11.4-21.7 to 2.6.11.4-21.8. Unfortunately, after the upgrade I lost sound capability. There is no sound. The Hardware Info created by YAST detects Tyan AMD-8111 AC97 Audio and gives the following information: I/O Ports: 0xc800-0xc8ff (rw) I/O Ports: 0xcc00-0xcc3f (rw) IRQ: 10 (no events) Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i810_audio is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i810_audio" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: snd-intel8x0 is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd-intel8x0" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Since the Hardware info says that the the i810_audio & snd-intel8x0 are not activeI tried to use YAST to correct this situation. When I did YAST -> sound it says: "The number of currently running cards does not match the number of configured cards in your configuration profile. Try to restart sound system?" It gives me the option to restart the sound system. Then I selected "Yes". Then there is the reconfirmation that AMD-8111 AC97 Audio is not running. I then request addind AMD811 again. Then I get this message: The kernel module snd-intel 8x0 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters including invalid IQ or IRQ parameters. I tried to restart sound using Control Center -> sound. But that too does not help. Please by suggesting what I should do to get the kernel module snd-intel 8x0 loaded and to regain the sound. 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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Logout Hell
by Langsley T Russell 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi all. I installed SUSE 9.3 professional several days ago so I am very new to SUSE. When I logged out that first day after getting everything set up, or so I thought, the only choice I was offered was end session so I clicked accept. This took me to a gray screen with a dialog box for entering user name and password. When I entered those, all it did was take away the dialog box. That is, it left me at that gray screen with no way of getting back into my KDE desk top. so I shut down the computer. When I logged back in, my system opened to that same gray screen with a dialog box for user name and password. When I entered those, once again all it did was take away the dialog box with no way of getting back into my KDE desk top. After several days of trying I gave up and did a complete reinstall. Once the reinstall was complete , I did another logout. This time it offered me the choice to restart, end session, suspend computer, and shut down. I chose shut down. When I logged back on I was once again presented with that same gray screen. This time when I entered my user name and password it logged me into my KDE desktop. However none of the changes I had made were saved, things like my screen resolution etc. So I reset my screen resolution, reset my desired fonts and colors, installed Thunderbird, added a few things to my panel and decided to log off. Once again when I clicked on log off the only choice I was given was "end session". I had no choice but to accept this. Now I find myself right back at that inescapable gray screen. What am I doing wrong and how can I avoid it in the future?! TIA -- LTR }}:{( bulloved(a)nitline.com

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9.1 to 9.3 disaster area
by Sue Street 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I've loaded 9.3 onto my machine. Is there any way I can go back to 9.1? This is because the only detectable improvement with 9.3 is that I can tell it to release the USB memory stick. Now broken are: Eclipse Apostrophes (something in the keyboard / character encoding) now cannot be typed and existing documents display these as an a with a circumflex, an euro sign (how useless is that in NZ?) and a squiggly thing. Character set is ASCII, keyboard generic 101 US English, location New Zealand, spelling UK English. CivCTP Scribus (has vanished without a trace) This list comprehensively contains everything I have been able to use on 9.1. I never have been able to get R going on 9.x and really do want it going, but my Windows machine doesn't have this problem. Still broken: Gnome, R, Radeon display Any ideas on the apostrophe thing? Sue Street

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screen config problem
by Colin Carter 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi, I posted this question a month ago but had to go to London and didn't resolve the issue, but I hope you will bare with me on this one. Over this last month I have been trying, but no solution. I have a new AMD64 laptop from TPG, but TPG are very secretive about the contents of the box and refuse to discuss Linux (though it makes no sense to sell a 64 bit machine with XP ! ) However, XP tells me that the screen resolution is 1280 x 800 at 60 Hz and the adapter is an SiS, model: 651_661FX_741_760_760GX_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M on PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 64 MB of the main RAM appears to be used for the video The problem is that 1. SuSE 9.1 install starts properly (full screen, good quality graphics with menus, edit boxes etc. 2. internet connects and tests correctly 3. downloads latest SuSE updates automatically 4. lots of software appears to be correctly installed 5. system reboots from hard disk 6. requests, and achieves, setup for root and for a user 7. system reboots and requests loggin 8. system then says that it cannot determine monitor characters, and asks if I want to configure manually? Note: up until this point the system has had zero problem with displaying windows, graphics etc. Something in the initial SuSE code "gets it right". 8.(cont) If I configure manually or not the system then jumps into some ridiculous mode of 0 x 0 pixels. Thus, it appears that the SuSE programmer requests the screen dimensions, and receives 0 x 0 and fails to check the values, and simply attempts to use 0 x 0, thereby sending the system into convoltions. I can only switch off the electricty at this point. When I try to reboot from the hard disc everything goes well until the system gets to the loggin screen whereby the screen promptly jumps into convoltions again. Booting with F2 setting the screen dimensions does not help. How can the initial part of the SuSE code get the screen perfectly correct while the latter part stuffs it up? Any ideas on how to interrupt the boot process and set the screen parameters? Any ideas on how to get SuSE to fix this bug? Regards, Colin

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01 Aug '05

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Tyan K8S Pro ?
by Harald Milz 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, does someone have experience with SL (Pro or SLES) on the Thunder K8S Pro (S2882G3NR-D) (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro.html) together with an areca ARC-1160 (Intel IOP331 based) 16-port SATA RAID controller? Most of the components will work just fine, I just wonder about the on-board Sil3114 SATA and Intel IOP based RAID controllers. The manufacturer of the 16-port adapter claims Linux support (RH, SUSE) but which drivers are the correct ones? The Sil3314 should work with the sata_sil driver, right? When I installed my Asus A8V board I had to manually load libata and sata-via before firing up YaST during installation, I assume that's the same here. As for the ARC-1160, I have a certain idea after browsing the kernel source of my SL92 and SL93 machines (and googling all along, for sure). The machine in question will have all 16 disks attached to the 16-port controller, I can only assume that it should boot off this adapter too. The manufacturer seems to have drivers available on ftp://60.248.88.208/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/Suse-9.0-SLES-x86-64 and ../Suse-9.2-Professional-x86-64_Beta. Hmmm ... as it seems, the driver is _not_ contained in the standard kernel tree (as opposed to what the vendor says on http://www.areca.us/news/html/release_5_6_05.htm - "The Linux and FreeBSD driver have integrated in the kernel tree.") Which means my customer is tied to a specific kernel version, and loses the arcmsr driver on each YOU kernel update :-(( Hence, each kernel update would involve installing the most recent kernel source, integrating the arcmsr source code, modifying some source files, rebuilding and praying. SUSE: no support whatsoever. Andreas (Jaeger), any idea how we could help the customer in this case? Anyway - which distro should I be going for? SLES9 makes no sense IMHO because the machine is not certified hence no support in any case. SL92 is slightly more recent as far as the kernel, the rest is pretty much on the latest identical SUSE9-CORE level. Thanks for any hint! Ciao, hm -- Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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