Re: ndiswrapper problem with Wireless
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:34:08AM -0300, dude wrote: Hey dude Do you have 2 ways to make this wifi work's .. [snip] No he doesn't, the 4328 isn't supported by either drivers you mention. ndiswrapper is the only way to get it working, sadly enough. I have a tx1127 with the exact same hw: grepping dmesg for ndiswrapper shows: [ 43.291257] ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no) [ 43.879547] ndiswrapper (link_pe_images:575): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver [ 43.879547] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100.15.5) loaded [ 43.899547] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 19 [ 44.152542] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper So something isn't getting loaded right. The suggestion that wireless is turned off might be right, I managed to get the status led and wireless state out of sync by first turning off wireless (blue - orange), than suspend to ram (orange) and resume (blue) but actually wireless was off at this point. I'm running unstable with stock kernel Linux tablet 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I had to stick with 2.6.24 for a long time because I had the exact same problems you are experiencing. BTW I tried replacing this PITA with an other mini pcie card, sadly that wouldn't get recognized by the system. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: hibernate vs hibernate-ram ?
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Second question: Is there a way on a multi processor system to prevent the system to use both cores (yes, I know, can start as a single core machine) and after start up using the second (and now empty cpu) for one process ? My guess would be to modify /etc/init.d/rcS from exec /etc/init.d/rc S to exec numactl --physcpubind=0 /etc/init.d/rc S (or better yet to modify the initrd) The affinity of all subprocesses is inherrited, thus should be bound to cpu0. This offcourse will only function on a numa arch. But I guess smp has similar controls. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:08:44AM +, A J Stiles wrote: I'm thinking of buying a new 64-bit machine to use as my home desktop. (It will probably run Sid.) Does anyone know of a graphics card which is definitely supported by Free drivers? Already mentioned in this thread are the various ati, nvidia drivers and the intel onboard chips. No mention so far of VIA Unichrome cards. Via says it will support open source: http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088 and according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video_Motion_Compensation#VIA is the best bet for XvMC. S3 apparently sells them, but the last S3 cards I used didn't make a to good impression though that was a long long time ago (Virge). -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD dual core vs Intel core 2 quad
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:44:41PM +, Jo Shields wrote: To be specific: when I run molecular dynamics (MD) on Debian amd64 with my shared memory Thunder with 2 AMD dual core, parallelization support OpenMPI (everything compiled with Intel ifort/icc), the MD program sees 4 cpus and top -i indicates four cpu at work. The gain with respect to running MD in serial mode is about threefold, i.e. the parallelization is not bad at all. What can I expect - from this viewpoint - with four Intel Core 2 quad? - but the achilles heel of the Intel platform is memory contention, and for heavily memory-bound codes, scalability will be poor. Conversely, for CPU-bound codes, performance will be SIGNIFICANTLY better. Roughly speaking, using a 4-way GROMACs job as an example, the same job could complete about 25% faster, clock for clock, on Intel. A bit offtopic, but maybe Francesco would benefit from a PS3 if (big IF) you can fit your computations in 256MB and can do a decent job of programming the SPUs. Or maybe even faster (and more memory) a GPU. -- Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: b43 driver oddities...
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:31:40PM +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote: I know this is not strictly an amd64 matter, but I just discovered something odd (for me) and wanted to understand if it's just me. I have an asus A6K, with one of the (in)famous broadcom wireless chips. Until kernel 2.6.24 I was only able to (partially) use wifi via ndiswrapper, meaning that I could only use unencrypted or wep (almost the same) links, wpa and wpa2 never worked. From time to time I also tried using the bcm43xx driver, with no joy. What bcm do you have? My HP laptop with a bcm4328 worked almost perfectly (2.6.23 had some troubles) with drivers kindly supplies by Dell (R140746.EXE) and wpa_supplicant: ndiswrapper: using IRQ 10 wlan0: ethernet device 00:1a:bc:de:f0:12 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4328.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK Then came 2.6.24 and, surprise surprise, ndiswrapper does not work any more. It gets compiled and loaded ok, but no interface appears. I suppose there was some API change in the kernel that was not corrected for in the ndiswrapper code. ndiswrapper still works: $ uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 31 19:46:44 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ sudo wpa_cli status Selected interface 'wlan0' bssid=0f:19:d8:e1:af:93 ssid=42-wpa id=0 id_str=home pairwise_cipher=CCMP group_cipher=TKIP key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_state=COMPLETED ip_address=10.0.2.67 On the other hand, the shiny new b43 driver appeared. Apparently, [snip] networks. I still have to test in depth, but it appears to work. Great. Hope you can give some good feedback. Where exactly was it ever made known that you have to ifconfig up your wireless interface before you can have it list the available networks? Ehhh, all chipsets I ever used worked this way :) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug in Kmail ?
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:32:12AM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I discovered the following behaviour: When deleting a mail in kmail , the mail is pushed into trash. O.k., so far, this is o.k., but, when deleting the trash, all mails seem to be deleted. But wgen you look into the file ~/Mail/trash, then the mails are still in trash. The file ~/Mail/trash should have now the size of zero, but it is not. [snip] If someone could confirm this behaviour, I will do a bugreport, too. I can reproduce this), but my guess is that this is a feature, compacting the trash will actually delete the files from disk (just like imap delete versus imap expunge behavior). So if you are using imap, kmail has a setting for the imap account to Automatically compact folders (expunges deleted messages). Maybe there is bug with this setting (I'm at a plain i386 unstable that hasn't been updated for quite a while)? -- Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rescue bootable cd ???
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:31:19PM -0500, C M Reinehr wrote: Unfortunately, both systems on which I experienced such calamity ran lvm over software raid 5. In fact, both systems ran lilo, not grub; and [snip] You may still be able to access your hard disks with Knoppix. After booting Knoppix you first must load the md driver raid drivers: `modprobe raid5` should do it. Then, use the mdadm command to query the raid information written to the hard drives, i.e., `mdadm --detail /dev/sdx`. Once you think you have the right configuration start your raid array with `mdadm -A /dev/mdx /dev/sdy ...`. Finally, once your raid array is up running you can bring up lvm. Knoppix comes with a script called mdrun (IIRC), the only thing it doesn't do is modprobe the various raidX modules. So: $ modprobe raid5 $ mdrun is all you need to do to get raid5 to run on knoppix. Like you said lvm is simple to jumpstart (I guess there is a script fo this as well). The only thing knoppix failed to do for my raid5/lvm system was to restore grub, it segfaulted but a chroot to the systems root disk was enough to fix. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing a hardware
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:04:52PM +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: [crashes] Did you try booting with various apic/acpi settings (noapic/noacpi/nolapic/etc.)? nops, but I have to try. But this could be so important? It is on my laptop with the Nvidia MCP51 stuff. Without noapic the machine will halt without any feedback. Often within a couple of minutes, but sometimes it takes a while to crash. I was under the impression that more people have these kind of problems on various hardware where noapic solves the problem. -- Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing a hardware
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:30:43PM +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: [crashes] So, my question is? How I can determinate if: - the memory fails (memtest done, but only 2 hours ..) - mainboard fails - debian kernel stock fails? - my fingers fails and I have a misconfigured bios ... Did you try booting with various apic/acpi settings (noapic/noacpi/nolapic/etc.)? -- Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running Java App fails...
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:35:09AM -0500, helices wrote: I am on straight etch. What need I install? # COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l '*sun*' [...] un sun-j2re1.4 none (no description available) un sun-java5-jrenone (no description available) [...] Ancient # sudo aptitude install sun-java5-jre I blame aptitude (I'd rather use dselect if I was forced to :), update you cache and you should be seeing the following packages: un ia32-sun-java5 none (no description available) un ia32-sun-java5 none (no description available) ii sun-java5-bin 1.5.0-10-3 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) ii sun-java5-demo 1.5.0-10-3 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 un sun-java5-doc none (no description available) un sun-java5-font none (no description available) ii sun-java5-jdk 1.5.0-10-3 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 ii sun-java5-jre 1.5.0-10-3 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) un sun-java5-plug none (no description available) un sun-java5-sour none (no description available) (also see http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=java5searchon=namessubword=1version=stablerelease=all ) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD 64 X2
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:09:02PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: It appears though that none of the mobile X2's have Pacifica, which I find somewhat surprising. If Ed in this thread is correct that the svm flag in /proc/cpuinfo indicates Pacifica, then the Turion64 X2 TL-52 (1.6Ghz) has it (also there is a flag in the bios on this machine). -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Sounds like you have a bad dvd drive (or badly configured IDE (e.g. no DMA)). The results are the same whether on my reader/burner or my read-only drive. Perhaps the DMA part (though dma is apparently configured)? hpotter:/home/daddy# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings |grep -i dma using_dma 0 0 1 rw Like Lennart said: DMA is off. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx might turn it on (but again like Lennart said: might depend on ide driver). Copy the DVD to HD (or a chapter with mencoder) and see if that does anything for performance. Sorry, but how do I do that? Using dd? (All my computing knowledge is built up--hobbyist level...) dd can be problematic with original discs due to CSS. mencoder is more likely to work: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -vf harddup -o out.mpg dvd://1 -chapter 1-1 (optionally: -dvd-device /dev/whatever) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ** One thing that comes to mind is that I have no patch audio wires from the player to the MB at this point. Could this make a big difference in what the player has to do to get things to work? This would/should make no difference. The last time I had that cable attached was on a SB Pro. Sounds like you have a bad dvd drive (or badly configured IDE (e.g. no DMA)). Copy the DVD to HD (or a chapter with mencoder) and see if that does anything for performance. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hauppauge PVR-350 - ivtv - amd64
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Johann Hautzinger wrote: In the meantime, many things are working as expected, but I obviously am not able to configure my Hauppauge PVR-350 right. It urges to have a Philips FM1216ME MK5 but no matter what i configure (or even not configure - for autodetection) it says tuner 2-0061: tuner type not set - see my dmesg output, if you want ... Ehhh, this was easy to find: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#PVR-350_with_Philips_FM1216ME_MK5_tuner Scanning the source, in ivtv-cards.c 1 card is listed with FM1216ME MK5 and it simply uses the FM1216ME MK3 define. I can confirm that the FM1216ME MK3 works just fine on my PVR-150 (with 2.16.19.3): tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1216 ME MK3 (idx 57, type 38) HTH -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hauppauge PVR-350 - ivtv - amd64
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:48:00PM +0200, Johann Hautzinger wrote: right ... this one was easy to find ... so easy, that even i found it ;-) ... btw: nope ... it didn't help ... tuner=38 was one of the tuners i tried ... but thanx for the answer anyway :-) Just trying to state the obvious :) PS. I am still using 2.6.18-4 ... maybe i should change? It's worth a shot. And running the latest kernel will surely be appreciated by the ivtv people when you report this bug (I guess). My PVR-150 replaced a Bt878 card which worked perfectly for years on i386 hardware. After upgrading to amd64 the thing became unusable (all kind of buffer underruns), so there certainly may be incompatibilities with some v4l devices and amd64. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tyam m-board/ram/bios/amd64
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:16:25AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: ---1st question: is any comparison for amd64 between Kingston KVR400D4R3A/2GB and Corsair CM75SDS2048RPL-3200/2GB ? For the latter, easily available here and said by Corsair compatible with the above mainboard, I was unable to find volatage and W, which are 2.6V/11W for the Kingston modules. I have a close approximation of the above in 1 machine (I think the above Kingston and the 1Gb 2700 version from Corsair), 4 corsair on 1 node and 2 kingston on the other. The kernel doesn't really care, the only difference I can see is that according to numastat the interleave_hit on the 2nd node is a little lower (3647 vs 3624). ---2nd question: I had no troubles with the above system and therefore never upgraded the bios. Should I do that, where to get the appropriate bios upgrade, from Phoenix or Tyan? Tyan, the only problem I had with the last update for my board was that it didn't fit on my usb thumbdrive in floppy emulation mode. But if it ain't broke, dont' fix it (IMHO). -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 06:01:28PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ... [snip] What should I try next? Dump that PITA lilo and install a more intelligent bootloader. You could first try to reinitialize the mbr with somehting like: install-mbr -r -k -p 1 /dev/hda -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system_crash.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:56:23PM -0800, CHRIS WAKEFIELD wrote: I rememeber a few months ago trying to boot with a freshly compiled kernel and having the boot freeze umptine times at the scheduler initialization (?) tried many different kernel configs, gave up and stuck with the only kernel that'll boot my new machine - 2.6.16-16. I had the same problems, it was only till the 2.6.19.x versions that kernels started booting again. Seems the latest 'debian-testing-amd64-netinst' doesn't use this kernel. My original image from an install of a year ago stops installing at 'tzdata' (tried 6 times now). A little newer: http://tmp.tryba.nl/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Dates in the iso are Aug. 10 2006. I guess this is the image I used to install my machine. Maybe it works for you. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba
Re: Broadcom/Serverworks chipsets (was Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian)
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:47:51PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: Has someone experience with k8 Broadcom/Serverworks chips? Excellent question. I'd be interested in hearing from people that have used/tried motherboards using this chipset. It appears to be the only other choice in server boards if once avoids nForce boards. I'm running a K8SSA (S3870), it is completely supported by the kernel but it is not as stable as I hoped. There are occasional lockups that appear to be related to the (s)ata controller (still running 2.6.16.x) I specifically got this board for it's legacy PCI slots, but not all PCI cards will work (can't get firewire or cardbus to work). I have no idea if that is a kernel problem (most likely for the cardbus controller) or with the systemboard (IOMMU related I guess). The TARO/SAS expansion is kind of supported since 2.6.19, but the rc releases didn't have support for SATA on the SAS controller (AIC9140). I hoped to use this relatively cheap controller to drive lots of disks. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.19: system freeze with blinking CapsLock and ScrollLock leds
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:41:13AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: AFAIK with a single dual-headed card that is not possible. With two cards it might work, provided that the video driver in X can drive the second card without ever touching the legacy VGA I/O space (since that can be enabled for only one card at a time, and there is no infrastructure currently to arbitrate which card has it enabled). IIRC even when I used a hercules monitor XFree86 blanked the hercules textmode (and framebuffer (but that was to be expected)) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid + lvm setup
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: [snip] Does this seem like a workable/wise plan or here there be dragons? Is there any reason to think that 20 GB is too small for a fully installed workstation including swap and /tmp (everything but /home)? Sounds sane, except for the encrypted stuff this resembles my setup, 20Gb is more then enough (I personally have something like 7Gb used from the max 24Gb for base (about half of it in the /usr/local/ hierarchy)). On the last reinstall of a machine (debinstaller for x86) a couple of months ago I tried the encypted LVM stuff but it didn't appear to work out of the box (and I was to lame to spend some time to get is working) though. Encrypted swap with a new generated key (never stored) for each reboot sound interesting. Could you share your experiences if you have this running? -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:10:13PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: -I already installed kernel headers and tried pointing the vmware-config to many places without success. Well I don't know what to say about that, I've installed VMWare on numerous machines with custom and Debian kernels and the only time I've run into problems with the VMWare kernel modules was with custom kernels mostly because of some 3rd party patches. It's a vmware issue in this case, 1.0.1-29996 will compile againt the latest deb/unstable kernel (2.6.18.something). -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:34:18PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: 1) I don't like seeing errors / misdetected hardware in kernel messages. Far too many times I've seen loading drivers for hardware that was never there. As for kernel, I want it to be clean and do its work for the exact hardware I use, Haven't seen that with the modularized kernels and discover. Matching the pci IDs to hardware works well. Well, I personally have been trying debian kernels for a couple of weeks. A machine that has been running Debian/unstable with custom kernels for the last couple of years and always has been very stable, now is not detecting the soundcard every couple of reboots. And since I can't (mainly to lazy to figure out how to) get VMWare Server to work anymore (I can't seem to find the correct headers for the installed kernel) I'm making the same conclusion I made a couple of years ago: custom kernels are much more reliable and easier. (also rebuilding the initrd a couple of times in a single update on a slow machine is no fun to watch) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:39:00PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: My system locks up when I run ifconfig eth1 up on the sk98lin module but I only have 1Gb of ram. Maybe I should play with the bios settings. I'd guess that it could be related to IOMMU settings, but that does only make sense with 4Gb or more it seems. But I have seen lockups of the sk98 driver even on my 1Gb 32bit kernel running EMT64 machine (only with 2.6.18 kernels, .18 has been running stable so far). -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: I've been using the pre-built kernels since I got this AMD64 box without any hardware detection issues. If your soundcard disappears every couple of reboots I would be more suspicious of the hardware than the kernel. This is contradicted by the custom kernels not having this problem. As for VMWare, the Ubuntu wiki listed the prereqs that I needed and after they're installed you can install VMWare just like normal. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware_Guide%3a_Installing_VMware_Server_on_Ubuntu_6%2e06_LTS_amd64 Thanks for the link, but: -the machine having problems is not running a 64bit kernel -I already installed kernel headers and tried pointing the vmware-config to many places without success. Again these troubles aren't present when running custom kernels. 2 out of the 3 machines I'm tried to run deb. kernels on failed. The third on is running just fine. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange network problem
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: My 8019s did not work well. My 3c509 on the other hand does work well. Another great card is the Western Digital/SMC WD8013 (or even the 8 bit ISA WD8003). It uses the same 8390 chipset as the NE2k, but its packet buffer is memory mapped where the NE1k and NE2k have their packet buffers only reachable through slower IO space. Back in the old days I could easily flood a thin ethernet using a 8003 in a 386DX40 :) They were great indeed. Douglas, if you need one of those I still have a couple of them (both 8003 and 8013) lying somewhere collection dust :) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel compile.again.
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:22:16PM +0200, Daniel Tryba wrote: In my case the kernel just stops after: Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered in 2.6.16.24 the next lines would be the RTC driver, agpgart and serial with my monolitic kernel config. I got around to testing the latest rc kernel on a freshly updated etch: The good news: 2.6.19-rc4 actually boots on my machine. The bad news is that the machine locks up after a couple of minutes (time to do some tracing and report this). Even badder news is that the old 2.6.16.24 refuses to mount my root fs due to some unsupported optional features (4) on the ext3 fs :( -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel compile.again.
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:57:47AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: What is odd, also, is that debian linux-images: 2.6.18-1-amd64 and 2.6.17-2-amd64 won't boot my machine either!Thanks for the replies, What precisely is happening when you try boot your system? Do you have some some specific error or diagnostic information that could be used to find what the issue is? It's good to see other people have the same problem with anything later than 2.6.16 :) In my case the kernel just stops after: Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered in 2.6.16.24 the next lines would be the RTC driver, agpgart and serial with my monolitic kernel config. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LVM root?
Tell me more about raid1 support inside lvm, because that's what I'm looking at for /. I know about raid0 (lvm's striping) but can't find mirroring in lvm. There is no such thing, it's lvm in a md device that does the trick. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LVM root?
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:15:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, but I'm trying to decide if I should put / on LVM. To summarize what I've heard so far: Advantage:Able to resize. Which is a negligible advantage. How often is the need for this? Disk space for / varies between 100Mb to 500Mb on my machines. Instal with a generous 2Gb for / only and you never need to worry about it filling up. Disadvantages: - Grub doesn't support LVM so need /boot on a regular partition. - Difficult or impossible to boot up a rescue CD and rescue a corrupted root fs. [snip] Would there be any disadvantage to this? / is to valuable to lose. IMHO a single disk setup is a no go. Just to add my 2cents: new machines get (multiple (identical) disks with) 2 partitions on them: 1 - a small 2Gb (type fd) 2 - the rest (type fd) The small partitions are combined in a md0 array raid1, the others in whatever you like (most likely 5, 1 otherwise) md1 array. /dev/md0 will be used for /. /dev/md1 will be a pv for lvm. This adds redundancy, plus any of the partition that make up the raid1 for / can be mounted on its own (but writing to one will break the array). Adding a disk creates an other copy of /, and with the newer kernels a raid5 array can be expanded, so it can be used by the LVM. But this still creates a static sized /, which IMHO is no problem IF the initial size is big enough. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fail to detect the Cd-Rw
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:25:44PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I tried to install the AMD64 OS version, on my PC, the boot worked fine, but when installer should Detect and Mount the cdrom, failed to detect any. [snip] The 2.6.8 kernel is rather old and doesn't support hardware released after it was (that means any new hardware made in the last 18 months). Try either getting one of the newer unofficial sarge installers (such as the one from http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/) or install Etch(testing) instead which officially has amd64 support from debian. The OP fails to mention what version is to be installed or whether the optical units themselves aren't detected or the media isn't detected. But I have seen a similar problem when I installed my amd64 a half year ago, the D-I Etch installer failed to find its own media. However after having the installer verify the media it miraculously found the CD and was happy to install from it. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI (the plain old version) expansion card problems
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:31:09AM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: [snip problems] You'd better ask such hardware questions on the linux-kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org). Be sure to try the latest kernel (2.6.18-rc7 at time of writing) before you do, or otherwise that will be the first question. Will do, but I was curious if other amd64 users have seen this, guess not. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba signature.asc Description: Digital signature
PCI (the plain old version) expansion card problems
I have been running Etch on a Tyan Tiger K8SSA for some time now without major problems. Atleast until I wanted to hookup firewire and a pcmcia card. Both busses are added by 32bit PCI expansion cards (the PCI slots being on of the reasons I bought the board in the first place). The PCI slots them selves work, this was tested with a prism54 pci card that just works perfectly. My problems are also apparent when running Knoppix 5.0. I have played a little with pci irq routing and the IOMMU (machine has 4Gb RAM) settings in the BIOS to no avail. So I'm wondering if anyone else has seen similar problems or has any idea (and preferably a solution:) wether the problem is with the motherboard, the pci cards themselves or somehow with the kernel. Nice extra detail is that the prism54 card (SMC 2802) had problems in older motherboards and the firewire/cardbus controller are from the same manufacturer (Conceptronics). The pcmcia/cardbus controller uses the Yenta driver (Ricoh RL5c475). The pci card works in an older P4 machine, but in the Opteron board no cards (either pcmcia and cardbus) are recognized (with the newer pccard utils). Older kernels (now running 2.6.17.13) sometime reportes something like: CS: unable to apply power (the cards don't seem to get any power (no leds are on and they remain cold)). With 2.6.17.x there is no response at all on insertion, but the kernel warns that the pccard utils are using deprecated calls. The firewire controller is a Via VT6306 (rev 46). That controller is reported to work on linux1394.org. Attaching a device to the bus works as predicted: ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00054235] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 - 0-01:1023 ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1) ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance scsi4 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394 ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: DVDRAM GSA-4167B Rev: DL12 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5 But writing DVDs with it sometimes works, but more often it just fails with an error like: ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command sr 4:0:0:0: command: Write (10): 2a 00 00 18 8e 30 00 00 10 00 The writer is attached to a Prolific PL-3507 controller which works great on an other machine. But even when tweaking the sbp2 modules settings I can't get consistent results on the Opteron. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ATA abnormal status
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:16:30PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: [snip] Any guess at what that means? I naively understand it was failure by the OS, not failure of hardware. I had the same errors on a Tyan K8SSA and first thought it was a software/kernel problem with the sata controller/driver. But then one disk suddenly died (no problems where found til the failure (smartctl)) and got replaced by a new one. The machine has been running flawless since. It might be a coincidence, but just to show you you might have a hardware problem. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
