May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

irqbalance question on openSuSE 10.1
by Rui Santos 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi, From the Description of irqbalance, it is supposed to balance IRQ activity between two or more processors. On /etc/init.d/irq_balancer LINE 41 there is the following line if [ $PHYS -gt 1 -o $ $PROC -gt 1 -a $PHYS -eq 0 $ ] ; then witch explicitly states that the $PHYS variable has to be greater then one. This means that there has to be two physical processors, and the daemon will not load if the computer has either a Hyper-Threading or Dual-Core CPU. I'm sure that SuSE folks dis this on purpose but, is it possible to someone to tell me why irqbalance will not work on this CPU's, specially on a Dual-Core System ? I've done a goggling on the subject and find nothing substantial on this subject. My system is a Dual-Core Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz Thanks for your time -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither one of them.

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Upgrade Hard Drive - hda
by Jim Flanagan 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi all, I currently have a 9.3 box with 3 drives installed, hda (windows98), hdb (suse 9.1) and sda (suse 9.3) which is my default and almost always used boot. I want to ditch the hda drive, and either add a new drive in its place, or just use the current hdb drive. Three questions. 1. What is the best / easiest way to move or copy my current grub from the current hda to the new drive? 2. If I use my existing hdb, do I need to configure it to hda, or will it work as is? 3. Can I add another SATA drive (the sda is a SATA) and do away with the 2 IDE drives altogether? Many thanks, Jim F

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content of foreign boxes
by jdd 31 May '06

31 May '06

I don't know really where to ask. so I do here. I try to setup a page with references to french SUSE dealers. there a not many and I try to phone them to know for sure if they already sell the box. I was asked if the box/book is in french. I say yes, but I'm not so sure. many years ago it was. then it was no more, till 9.0 then Novell come and we had a french manual, I think 10.0 was shipped with french box and french printed manual and now what for the 10.1? will we have french printed manual? (and during the process, can you list the various localized printed manuals?) I received a 10.1 box as a gift (thank you :-), but of course english one and I know yet nobody that have a french box thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Dual Boot SUSE 10.1
by Arun Prabhakaran 31 May '06

31 May '06

Can anyone tell me if SUSE linux has the option unbuilt into the installer to Dual Boot SUSE 10.1 and Windoze XP which I have already installed on my PC? I already have Fedora installed along with Windoze XP with GRUB as the bootloader. I want to replace it with SUSE 10.1 . If the installer does not have it, I have to manually configure grub (which I am not very good at). Thanks

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Mount to / within EVMS??
by Ryan McCain 31 May '06

31 May '06

We have a server that is having trouble booting up. Normally, I could boot into knoppix, mount /dev/sda1 then correct the problem from there, however, we have installed /, /var and /home all w/in EVMS. Now that the server is having problems I need to know how to boot into the / filesystem contained w/in EVMS. Thanks, Ryan

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Traceroute and Linksys routers
by Jerry Feldman 31 May '06

31 May '06

A friend of mine who has SuSE 10.1 and a Linksys router (I think an older BEFSR41) is complaining that either the router or Linux is blocking traceroute. I have both SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.1 and a newer Linksys router and traceroute from my systems through the router work fine. I know that he allows ICMP, and he can successfully ping other systems, but traceroute simply stops at the router. However he can successfully do a traceroute from a Windows box. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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Please stay on-topic.
by Sonja Krause-Harder 31 May '06

31 May '06

(official hat on) Folks, it would really be appreciated if personal discussions could be done by personal mail and not on this list. Please help to keep off-topic traffic as low as possible. For chatting, use #opensuse on freenode. Thanks, Sonja (official hat off) -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh(a)suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH

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bugs in 10.1 and complaints about it
by Mathias Homann 31 May '06

31 May '06

To whom it may concern, if you find a bug in 10.1 (which is bad enough by itself), you should ask yourself, "why didn't I notice that in one of the various beta and RC releases?" On the other hand, lots of what's being mentioned here is really bad enough for not getting overlooked during beta and RC stage, so it sure does make one wonder how it coulnd've been possible. maybe some of those really have been introduced after the final RC? but then, whats the point in having a final RC release, when you make drastic changes after releasing what would (in an ideal world) be identical to the final master version? that being said, I'm not going to touch 10.1 with a 10ft pole, and NOT for reason of the various bugs, but solely because the non-gpl stuff has been dropped. How am I supposed to download a driver off the 'net when the driver in question is the driver I need to get oin the 'net on the first hand? madwifi/ath0 anyone? bye, MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C

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[SLE] Technical vs NonTechnical
by Dennis J. Tuchler 31 May '06

31 May '06

On another thread, it was opined that Novell and those that follow Novell with respect to Linux will limit use of Linux to people with technical knowledge of computers (and programming) and industrial/commercial sites where there is a substantial IT help presence. The reference is to the increased necessity on the part of the Linux user to download and apply non-GPL drivers to the Linux installation. This takes not only technical knowledge but time, as well -- even on the part of those who have the knowledge and skill to apply those drivers and make such adjustments as are necessary to make the interface between the drivers and the kernel efficient. I think that is right, and that may be too bad for the spread of Linux, all in the name of GPL purity. There are palliatives one can offer the relative tyro, and I hope that Novell and others following Novell's lead will make the installation of these drivers painless with plain, tyro-oriented language in accompanying instructions. Indeed, I think that the acquisition and installation of these drivers should be included in installation assistance offered those who buy the boxed set. dj tuchler -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE on Woodcrest processors
by Rafa Grimán 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi :) El Martes, 30 de Mayo de 2006 20:09, Alexei_Roudnev escribió: > It is transparent for the user's processes, so why do you expect any > changes in gcc? Well, if Woodcrest is a new type of processor (even though it's based on Xeon), it might have new registers, ... that have to be implemented in gcc. If it's not implemented in gcc, you might not get all the performance you might be looking for/expecting. Just as you can, for example, specify: gcc -mtune=pentium4 gcc -mtune=prescott gcc -mtune=nocona http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.htm… pentium4, pentium4m Intel Pentium4 CPU with MMX, SSE and SSE2 instruction set support. prescott Improved version of Intel Pentium4 CPU with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 instruction set support. nocona Improved version of Intel Pentium4 CPU with 64-bit extensions, MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 instruction set support. Maybe there's a: gcc -mtune=woodcrest The question would be: is there a -mtune=woodcrest? TIA Rafa > ----- Original Message ----- > Hi :) > > El Lunes, 29 de Mayo de 2006 11:59, Eberhard Moenkeberg escribió: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 29 May 2006, Rafa [iso-8859-15] Grimn wrote: > > > Does anybody know whether Intel's Woodcrest processors will be > > supported? > > > > It's a dual core Xeon processor. > > > > > > Would it be a x86-64? > > > > > > Any glitches, gotchas, advice regarding: kernel, glibc, gcc, ...? > > > > I have some new Dell PE1850 with dual core Xeon CPUs (2 sockets, showing > > 8 CPUs with HT enabled): > > > > zim01:0 11:56:09 ~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release > > SUSE LINUX 10.0 (X86-64) > > VERSION = 10.0 > > zim01:0 11:56:26 ~ # uname -a > > Linux zim01 2.6.13-15.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 x86_64 > > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > zim01:0 11:56:50 ~ # > > > > /proc/cpuinfo says: > > [...] > > Thanks, but do you know if there would be any modifications to glibc, gcc, > kernel, ... ? I guess some registers have changed/been added to the CPU > (chip) but haven't found any info regarding support by gcc. > > TIA > > Rafa -- 50% of all statistics are inaccurate. OpenWengo: rgriman

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