SUSE AMD64 Pro v.9.0 - VIA K8T800 chipset issue ??
Hello all. I recently purchased an AMD Athlon 64 w/ a VIA K8T800 chipset. I had a successful install from the SUSE 9 pro dvd. Yast detected everything from the Sound Card all the way to the built in ethernet. Everything worked and was detected flawlessly. The system seemed useable until I rebooted the machine. The machine hung at bootup around the "cpufreq" process. I tried safemode and the same problem occurred. During a second re-install I have upgraded the kernel over through Yast to the latest "bugfix" version provided by SUSE and that didn't seem to help either. Are there any other reported issues with this VIA chipset? I currently have Mandrake AMD64 9.2 RC1 working with no problems. I would like to get the SUSE Pro 9 working, but this situation leaves me no choice. Thanks for any feedback. I appreciate it. Stephen
Hi, I have one of these motherboards as well. It is a master2-far from MSI dual opteron 240. I experience random lockups (complete lockups) for no reason it seems. I am running SLES 8 AMD64 and have not found a solution yet, although I have made a support request through the suse portal and am waiting for a response. You might try acpi=off as a kernel parameter to try to boot the machine, have you tried safe mode? Best regards JPF On 29.11.2003, at 22:45, Stephen Varga wrote:
Hello all. I recently purchased an AMD Athlon 64 w/ a VIA K8T800 chipset. I had a successful install from the SUSE 9 pro dvd. Yast detected everything from the Sound Card all the way to the built in ethernet. Everything worked and was detected flawlessly. The system seemed useable until I rebooted the machine. The machine hung at bootup around the "cpufreq" process. I tried safemode and the same problem occurred. During a second re-install I have upgraded the kernel over through Yast to the latest "bugfix" version provided by SUSE and that didn't seem to help either. Are there any other reported issues with this VIA chipset? I currently have Mandrake AMD64 9.2 RC1 working with no problems. I would like to get the SUSE Pro 9 working, but this situation leaves me no choice. Thanks for any feedback. I appreciate it.
Stephen
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On Saturday 29 November 2003 06:09 pm, JPF wrote:
I have one of these motherboards as well. It is a master2-far from MSI dual opteron 240. I experience random lockups (complete lockups) for no reason it seems.
I am running SLES 8 AMD64 and have not found a solution yet, although I have made a support request through the suse portal and am waiting for a response.
You might try acpi=off as a kernel parameter to try to boot the machine, have you tried safe mode?
Yes, safe mode doesn't work. I have also turned off APM and ACPI from the boot manager prompt as well. Nothing to that extent works. It's fairly strange how it can complete the install without any hiccups, but then on a fresh reboot it just hangs there, completely locking up the machine. The hardware reset button doesn't even respond. I had to completely disconnect power from the machine. This scared me so I am calling it quits with SUSE9 64 for now. Cheers! Stephen
Stephen Varga <blacklab@darkambient.org> writes:
On Saturday 29 November 2003 06:09 pm, JPF wrote:
I have one of these motherboards as well. It is a master2-far from MSI dual opteron 240. I experience random lockups (complete lockups) for no reason it seems.
I am running SLES 8 AMD64 and have not found a solution yet, although I have made a support request through the suse portal and am waiting for a response.
You might try acpi=off as a kernel parameter to try to boot the machine, have you tried safe mode?
Yes, safe mode doesn't work. I have also turned off APM and ACPI from the boot manager prompt as well. Nothing to that extent works. It's fairly strange how it can complete the install without any hiccups, but then on a fresh reboot it just hangs there, completely locking up the machine. The hardware reset button doesn't even respond. I had to completely disconnect power from the machine. This scared me so I am calling it quits with SUSE9 64 for now. Cheers!
So, it always hangs when cpufreq is started? Then you have either a broken BIOS or hardware :-(. Please remove cpufreq, e.g.: Use the rescue option and remove /etc/init.d/cpufreqd (hope that's the right path) and try again. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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