RE: [suse-amd64] POLL: Do you have a positive impression on the 6 4-bit platform ... plz drop a note on the hardware you use
SuSE 9.1 Professional
AMD Opteron 240 1.4GHz 64-bit Retail CPUs Tyan Tiger K8W S2875ANRF Dual Opteron Server Board PC2700 333MHz DDR ECC RAM - (4GB Total) Maxtor 6Y200M0 200GB 7200RPM 8MB SERIAL ATA HDs - (4) ATI Radeon 9200SE 64MB DDR 8x AGP w/ TV-Out Tagan TG480-U01 480w pwr supply. Topower TP134SAB Hot-swap SATA module. 3ware 9500S-8 Escalade SATA Controller.
The only hassle I had was with the 3ware controller and the obvious problems suse has with its setup program (update disk portion) for loading modules on SMP systems at installation time. This is partly 3ware's fault because they could not get their module in the kernel source tree in time for the 9.1 release.
The sata raid controller could not be used for a fresh install. I had to use an IDE disk to hold the OS then add the newly compiled module manually. The kernel-syms package had to be loaded for the 3ware module code to compile properly. The only thing I have left is to tear everything down and install clean to test if the 3ware module can handle a kernel update from YaST without breaking.
Other than what's mentioned above I have had *no* problems but the machine is not in a production environment yet and isn't doing anything other than sitting there spinning its wheels. The machine will end up being a productin database server running postgresql, mysql and maxdb so once those are on and I start running some tests I should learn more.
-----Original Message----- From: Johan Nielsen [mailto:yep@osterbo-net.dk] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:25 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] POLL: Do you have a positive impression on the 64-bit platform ... plz drop a note on the hardware you use
Would be nice to have around for all considering buying stuff.
Single / dual / X-cpu systems Mainboard RAM Chipset All the info you'd like to add
Plz let me/others know how you dealt with problems if you had any
(And yes ... I'll probably buy a AMD64/Opteron myself in the near future)
Johan
Tirsdag den 21. september 2004 21:47 skrev Kevin.Wilson@comtrol.com:
SuSE 9.1 Professional
AMD Opteron 240 1.4GHz 64-bit Retail CPUs Tyan Tiger K8W S2875ANRF Dual Opteron Server Board PC2700 333MHz DDR ECC RAM - (4GB Total) Maxtor 6Y200M0 200GB 7200RPM 8MB SERIAL ATA HDs - (4) ATI Radeon 9200SE 64MB DDR 8x AGP w/ TV-Out Tagan TG480-U01 480w pwr supply. Topower TP134SAB Hot-swap SATA module. 3ware 9500S-8 Escalade SATA Controller.
What Networkinterface (NIC) do you use or is it a built-in.
Are you able to control the speed of the NIC between 10 and 100 Mbit and turn full dublex on/off with say ethtool ??
The only hassle I had was with the 3ware controller and the obvious problems suse has with its setup program (update disk portion) for loading modules on SMP systems at installation time. This is partly 3ware's fault because they could not get their module in the kernel source tree in time for the 9.1 release.
Well that also goes for single/32 bit systems :-/
But I've read a lot of very positive notes on the 3ware controllers
The sata raid controller could not be used for a fresh install. I had to use an IDE disk to hold the OS then add the newly compiled module manually.
One can get to new/fresh equipment (ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe)
But would be nice with a guide in the help portal to get out of that trap (on the old IDE drive).
Kind of SAD that we have to pay the SuSE-UPDATE-TAX to achieve that ;-)
The kernel-syms package had to be loaded for the 3ware module code to compile properly. The only thing I have left is to tear everything down and install clean to test if the 3ware module can handle a kernel update from YaST without breaking.
No that's probably gonna be an experience of it's own ;-)
Other than what's mentioned above I have had *no* problems but the machine is not in a production environment yet and isn't doing anything other than sitting there spinning its wheels. The machine will end up being a productin database server running postgresql, mysql and maxdb so once those are on and I start running some tests I should learn more.
-----Original Message----- From: Johan Nielsen [mailto:yep@osterbo-net.dk] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:25 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] POLL: Do you have a positive impression on the 64-bit platform ... plz drop a note on the hardware you use
Would be nice to have around for all considering buying stuff.
Single / dual / X-cpu systems Mainboard RAM Chipset All the info you'd like to add
Plz let me/others know how you dealt with problems if you had any
(And yes ... I'll probably buy a AMD64/Opteron myself in the near future)
Johan
Running Suse 9.1 on two different systems and am rather happy with it:
System 1 (mysql server): Penguin Computing Altus Dual Opteron System. Came with Suse 9.0 pre installed, but I upgraded to 9.1. Works, other then the hardware sensor chip (PC has a patch for older kernels, haven't played with it)
System 2 (desktop): - AMD64 CPU - MSI Motherboard - NVidia Video Card GeForce FX 5200 using nvidia drivers - SATA drive + ATA drive - DVD burner - various firewire/usb devices - Suse 9.1 but using custom kernel (grsecurity patched)
Things that don't work: - winmodem (not a big deal for me) - tvtuner card (part of the MSI NVidia video card) (would be nice to get it to work) - I am not all that happy with the sound, but I think I got that worked out now.
Running SuSE 9.1 upgraded from 9.0 x86_64 on Acer Aspire 1501LCe laptop (AMD Athlon XP3000+ Mobile/512M/1024k cache). Radeon 9600 Mobility (OK) USB:- serial adapter used as serial console and Garmin GPS connections, Kodak DX3600 camera, webcam, mouse (OK)
Touchpad (OK) CD-RW/DVD (OK) Built-in flash card reader (OK) Integrated Via sound (OK) On-board Ethernet 10/100/1000 BCM5788 (OK) Winmodem, no go as it needs the kernel sources and the drivers contain a 32-bit module. PCMCIA modem (OK) IR port not tested. Kernel up to kernel.org 2.6.9-rc2-mm1. Only problem has been compiling some sources where it's been linking 64-bit shared libs, then the libtool that's generated suddenly goes to the 32-bit libs looking for static libs that only exist as 64-bit, no way found around the problem, even editing explicitly to point at 64-bit still causes it to look for them in 32-bit libs. Regards Sid.
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