RE: New test kernel.
by Randal, Phil
> There's an experimental test kernel available for folks using the
> testing repository (kernel-2.4.22-2132).
>
> Theres a fairly set of changes in this release due to the addition
> of the Tux http accelerator that we had in Red Hat Linux 9.
>
> I'd appreciate it very much if folks could hammer on this a little
> and see what falls out. The usage of Tux is no different from how
> it was in previous releases, so all existing documentation suffices.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Dave
It's a mixed bag, I'm sorry to say.
On my home PC it appears to work well, and it no longer hangs if my Epson
C40 USB printer is powered up on bootup (it is attached to Via chipset USB 2
card).
But, trying to boot a single processor Dell PowerEdge 2650 with it was not
successful - it hung at some point in the startup. As it happened at 6:30pm
last night I haven't any detailed documentation, and it is unlikely that
I'll have the time to investigate further. The same box runs
kernel-2.4.22-2129 happily.
Cheers,
Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
20 years, 4 months
Another test kernel (2135).
by Dave Jones
A large libata update this time, moving to Jeff's latest 2.4.23 patch.
SATA users, let me know how well this works for you.
Dave
20 years, 4 months
Fedora Core 1 Test Update: dia-0.92.2-1
by Alexander Larsson
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-039
2003-12-16
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Name : dia
Version : 0.92.2
Release : 1
Summary : A diagram drawing program.
Description :
The Dia drawing program is designed to be like the Windows(TM) Visio
program. Dia can be used to draw different types of diagrams, and
includes support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams),
entity relationship modeling, and network diagrams. Dia can load and
save diagrams to a custom file format, can load and save in .xml format,
and can export to PostScript(TM).
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Update Information:
Update to 0.92.2
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* Tue Dec 09 2003 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 1:0.92.2-1
- update to 0.92.2
Lots of new changes in this version, including support for auto-routing
of zig-zag lines. Check out the news for details:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/
Please beat on this and report any problems. Hopefully there won't be
many so i can push this as an update.
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/
0a40d8a71298ddfb86e0e545477e620e SRPMS/dia-0.92.2-1.src.rpm
7a10d1899b03c32df70968406f69f086 i386/dia-0.92.2-1.i386.rpm
3c3da083eb76e4448efaf6409a1d6e32
i386/debug/dia-debuginfo-0.92.2-1.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc
alexl(a)redhat.com alla(a)lysator.liu.se
He's a fast talking amnesiac cyborg from the 'hood. She's an elegant
gold-digging Hell's Angel with the power to see death. They fight crime!
20 years, 4 months
Reiser support?
by Ryan Nix
Hello all,
I'm using Reiserfs with Fedora Core 1 but when I tried to install
Arjanv's latest test 11 kernel, I get a kernel not found during boot
init (during the display of Redhat release). I used yum and the kernel
is clearly installed too. What I'm wondering is this: Do I need to
pass a command in Grub to get this to work?
Thanks in advance!
Ryan
20 years, 4 months
kylix+fedora+postgresql
by Kiss Gábor
Dear All,
after RH9 upgrade to Fedora the Kylix3 cant load the libsqlpg.so
(postgresql) library. It is a kompatibility problem or it is a simply file
linking problem?
Could you help me, where can I control it?
Thanx
Gábor
20 years, 4 months
amd64 iso images?
by jason pearl
is there somewhere i can get 64 bit iso images? thanks jason
20 years, 4 months
JFS at install time
by Richard Houston
Any chance that we will be able to use JFS as a file system at install
time any time soon? FC2 maybe?
--
Thanks
Richard Houston
R.L.H. Consulting
www.rlhc.net
20 years, 4 months
Re: fc1_x86_64 preview on tyan thunder k8w (S2885ANRF REV .03)
by Philip Pokorny
> Message: 23 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:01:42 -0500 (EST)
> From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17(a)duke.edu>
> To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: Re: fc1_x86_64 preview on tyan thunder k8w (S2885ANRF REV .03)
>
> Thomas Dodd wrote
>>> Thats different. You end up needing some mappings for kernel and
>>> user space to be efficient when dealing with user mappings. Whether
>>> you can get your .5Gb back depends if the chipset can remap it
>>> higher up in memory
>>> so that the 3.5-4Gb RAM masked by PCI is remapped at the top of
>>> memory.
>>
>> Know which ones, if any, currently can? AMD, Nvidia, or VIA?
>> Why would they release a chip that couldn't?
I've only seen this feature on the Intel Plumas chipsets (E75xx)
> In my (limited) experience, I've only "lost" significant chunks of
> memory on Tyan boards. Here are the results of 'free' on two systems
> with 4GB of RAM installed:
>
> total
> Mem: 3688032
>
> total
> Mem: 4012172
>
> The first system is dual Athlon MPs on a Tyan S2466. The second is
> dual Xeons on a Supermicro P4DPE.
This isn't a Tyan vs SuperMicro issue. You've got two different
chipsets here. The Tyan S2720 (equivalent to the P4DPE) will give you
the same amount of available RAM as the P4DPE because it has the same
E7500 chipset.
The S2466 is limited by the AMD760 chipset. The memory controller only
has 32-bit addressing so when you install 4G of RAM, you loose whatever
is needed for your PCI peripherals. With only 32-bits, there is no
place to map the memory to.
This is part of the answer to why someone would release a chipset that
can't remap memory. The Athlon MP CPU's don't have PAE extended
addressing mode support, so they can only address 4G of total address
space so there is no reason to implement memory remapping.
Another factor here is that the S2466 is a workstation board and you
might have had a video card with 64MB or 128MB of memory on it
installed. Due to the way PCI addresses are assigned, a 128MB video
card effectively consumes a little more than 256MB of address space.
The P4DPE is a server board and so you only had a 4MB or 8MB video
buffer for the on-board ATI Rage graphics controller. That only uses
8MB or 16MB of address space. Even without memory remaping, the P4DPE
is going to win.
By the way, if you have a hot-swap capable system, you can loose even
more RAM because empty PCI slots have to have memory space reserved for
them in case a PCI card is installed after the system POST's. The
default is generally to allocate 128 or 256MB of memory space to *EACH*
hotswap slot. Three or four hot-swap slots eat up almost a 1G of memory!
> For good measure, here's free from
> a dual Opteron system with 8GB installed:
>
> total
> Mem: 8070688
>
> That's the Arima/Rioworks HDAMA motherboard. Given my past experiences
> with Tyan and AMD chipsets (read: S2460 *shudder*), I specifically
> requested that my vendor *not* use the Tyan MB in my Opteron systems.
I've had good success with the Tyan motherboards. All the way from dual
PIII, P4 Xeon and on to Opteron.
The Arima HDAMA is also nice. But on the very early HDAMA BIOS's you
could loose as much as 1G in a 4G config because the Phoenix BIOS was
sloppy.
But again, it's not a motherboard manufacturer issue. You loose the
memory under your PCI space with the Opteron's same as the Athlon no
matter whose motherboard you use. The Opteron does have PAE mode
support and plenty of address bits, but the memory controller on the CPU
apparently doesn't have a way to remap that memory. Being as the memory
controller is actually on the CPU and must be accessed cache-coherently
in a multi-CPU board, adding memory remapping to get back 256MB or 512MB
out of 4096MB (or more) must not have been worth it.
:v)
--
Philip Pokorny, Director of Engineering
Tel: 415-358-2635 Fax: 415-358-2646 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN
PENGUIN COMPUTING, INC.
www.penguincomputing.com
20 years, 4 months