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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