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 Post subject: Filesystems
PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:36 am 
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Thanks for affs support, it works! :) But it's possible to mount only my boot partition (FFS).
SFS doesn't work :( I know it as "asfs" from Gentoo Linux.

There is no "/usr/src/linux/" on my Linux partition. There is only /usb/src/linux-2.6.16-rc1-git3-4-obj, but no Documentation drawer in it. I will try to install kernel sources package.


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 Post subject: Re: Filesystems
PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:23 am 
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Thanks for affs support, it works! :) But it's possible to mount only my boot partition (FFS).
SFS doesn't work :( I know it as "asfs" from Gentoo Linux.
Then it's probably not part of the 'official' Linux kernel. That is bad luck, as SUSE tends to stay to the Linus kernel tree as close as possible. They learned it in the hard way, I still remember multi megabyte compressed SUSE kernel patches...
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There is no "/usr/src/linux/" on my Linux partition. There is only /usb/src/linux-2.6.16-rc1-git3-4-obj, but no Documentation drawer in it. I will try to install kernel sources package.
Yes, documentation is part of that package. It will probably aslo install some development packages, but those are small compared to kernel sources ;-)

CzP


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:42 am 
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1) I have just installed kernel sources package - AFFS supports only FFS derivates. SFS (SmartFileSystem) is completly new filesystem. SFS support is very important for me - could it be transfered from another Linux distribution somehow?

2) I found out that 3D support doesn't work :?

3) Anyway I like this SUSE distro :D


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:46 pm 
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1) I have just installed kernel sources package - AFFS supports only FFS derivates. SFS (SmartFileSystem) is completly new filesystem. SFS support is very important for me - could it be transfered from another Linux distribution somehow?
We will try. It seems to me, that it's not in the Linus kernel tree, but if it compiles on Gentoo, it should on SUSE as well.
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2) I found out that 3D support doesn't work :?
It works for me fine. Could you send me your xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
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3) Anyway I like this SUSE distro :D
I'm glad to hear that!

CzP


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:13 pm 
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Today I spent my day mainly on i386 testing, as Xen is not yet available for PPC. By the time OSW arrives, it will work on PPC64 as well, but I can't wait ;)

We left the installation story at the point, where all the different ways of installation meet. It's the graphical 'language' menu. It looks much better as the previous 'language' menu, as this one has characters from many different languages. What you choose here, influences a lot of things. Not only the language of the installation program, but if a software package has language extensions, like KDE or OpenOffice.org, it will be automagically selected during software installation based on this choice. So, choose your language, and go to the next screen. Here you have to accept the 'License Agreement' for SUSE Linux. During beta testing, an extra window reminds, that it's a beta, and there is no support at all. As we want to continue with installation, we accept it.

Hardware detection comes next. This also means, that drivers are loaded, in some cases you are asked, if you really want it. If you have a Hard Drive with an Amiga partition table, you are warned, that the installer can't change it. You can still use existing partitions.

After another few kernel module related question, you are presented with the 'Installation mode' menu. On first installation you need to use the default setting: 'New Installation'. 'Update' helps to update from a previous version of SUSE Linux, I can't suggest to use it during the beta phase or on an important system, unless you have a full backup... 'Other' has some interesting possibilites, well hidden. Luckily I never had the opportunity to test 'Repair Installed System'. But 'Boot Installed System' is pretty usefull, and you will need it, if you use CD1 for booting. There you can choose, which partition to boot.

That's for now, to be continued.
CzP


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 Post subject: 3D Support
PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:06 pm 
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It's weird (from my Xorg.0.log):

(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.

There is my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.

Thanks for help!


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 Post subject: Re: 3D Support
PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:22 am 
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(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
Could you try as root:
Code:
modprobe radeon
And see, from
Code:
dmesg
, what happens.

CzP


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 Post subject: Modprobe radeon
PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:10 am 
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Ok, I tried:
Code:
modprobe radeon
dmesg
Here is the dmesg output.
Code:
radeonfb (0001:01:08.0): Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55
...
radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=275.00 Mhz, System=275.00 MHz
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[drm:radeon_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon_cp_init called without lock held
I have Manli ATI Radeon 8500LE 250/200, not 275/275.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:23 am 
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Thanks, I put it into Bugzilla. Could you put a detailed hardware info online as well?
Code:
hwinfo -all > hwinfo.txt
It takes about a minute to collect all information.
CzP


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 Post subject: hwinfo
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:49 am 
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Here it is - hwinfo.txt


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 Post subject: Re: hwinfo
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:47 am 
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Here it is - hwinfo.txt
Thanks, I put all of this information into bugzilla.

Something else: we just found, that the GNOME screen drawing problem can be solved in a more conservative way as well (EXA is still in experimental phase). Just add the following line to the Device section:
Code:
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
This is only for now, Xorg will be fixed, or this line will be added on Pegasos machines automatically.

CzP


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:42 am 
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Just for fun: my all day long bug hunting and testing which resulted in a working GNOME on Pegasos, helps the Itanium platform as well :lol: They seem to have the same ATI Radeon acceleration problem in Xorg.

CzP


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 Post subject: 3D support
PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:05 pm 
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I added option "BusType" "PCI" to xorg.conf and 3D support (ATI R8500LE) in SUSE 10.1 Beta2 works for me now :)


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Yes, "BusType PCI" is very important since that's exactly what
it is. The AGP-port is a simple PCI->AGP converter.


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:45 am 
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Yes, "BusType PCI" is very important since that's exactly what
it is. The AGP-port is a simple PCI->AGP converter.
But the same 10.1 beta2 works fine without this line on my ODW with Radeon 9200. I also needed this line on 10.0, where we had an earlier Xorg, but not with Xorg 6.9 any more...
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