[Pc_Support] It's here!
Homer Whittaker
whittake at sbaflorida.com
Sat Nov 5 10:57:04 EST 2005
Made me drool! If you don't mind tellin, how much did that dude
set you back?
Homer
On Friday 04 November 2005 21:22, Austin Denyer wrote:
> Hi Guys.
>
> The nice FedEx man delivered my new workstation today.
>
> Tyan K8WE MoBo, Dual-Opteron246 CPU, 2GB RAM, 2x200GB SATAII
> HDD, EVGA GeForce 6600GT, Thermaltake XaserIII V1000A case.
>
> It ROCKS!!!!!
>
> Several people complained that "A machine with that many fans
> in it is gonna sound like a jet when you power it up", only to
> be awestruck when told that it was already running.
>
> I used a modified version of the Debian AMD64 netinstall CD,
> as the standard one used the 2.6.8-2 kernel, which has limited
> hardware detection. This had the 2.6.12 kernel (thanks to Len
> Sorensen over on the Debian-AMD64 list), and installed fine
> with the exception of the network drivers - it only
> found/loaded drivers for the firewire networking, which I
> don't use. By continuing with the install and rebooting, the
> forcedeth drivers loaded fine. A quick hack of the network
> config files and I was up and running. I then just upgraded to
> the 2.6.14-2-amd64-k8-smp kernel and I was good to go. (There
> is a bug in the Opteron CPU that causes issues when running in
> SMP mode, and the work-around was only just included in that
> kernel.)
>
> Two gotchas.
> 1. When I installed X/KDE it swapped my NICs around (?!?!?).
> 2. I haven't managed to get the nVidia video drivers working
> yet. The official nVidia drivers will not load on X startup
> (although they did appear to compile OK, and modprobe doesn't
> barf on them), and the nv driver causes display corruption
> after a few mins. I'm running the vesa driver right now
> without issue.
>
> As far as (2) goes, I've heard that the nVidia drivers don't
> yet work with kernels > 2.6.12, but I need the 2.6.14-2 kernel
> for SMP. Can anyone confirm/deny/provide pointers for a
> workaround?
>
> Anyhoo, the thing FLIES!
>
> OpenOffice2 (run from a 32-bit chroot) loads in 3 secs.
> The Gimp loads in under 1 sec.
>
> I've only carved up one disk so far - I'm considering going to
> RAID-1 at some stage.
>
> I've tacked a few stats at the end to get the juices going...
>
> Many, MANY thanks to all who provided input and convinced me
> to buy this kit.
>
> Regards,
> Ozz.
>
> dev05:/home/adenyer# uname -a
> Linux dev05 2.6.14-1-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Wed Nov 2 20:53:55
> CET 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> dev05:/home/adenyer# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 15
> model : 5
> model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
> stepping : 10
> cpu MHz : 2009.303
> cache size : 1024 KB
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
> mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall
> nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips : 4021.17
> TLB size : 1024 4K pages
> clflush size : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management: ts fid vid ttp
>
> processor : 1
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 15
> model : 5
> model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
> stepping : 10
> cpu MHz : 2009.303
> cache size : 1024 KB
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
> mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall
> nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips : 4017.97
> TLB size : 1024 4K pages
> clflush size : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management: ts fid vid ttp
>
>
> dev05:/home/adenyer# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda7 7.4G 348M 6.7G 5% /
> /dev/sda1 45M 15M 27M 36% /boot
> /dev/sda14 103G 5.6G 92G 6% /home
> /dev/sda12 7.4G 33M 7.0G 1% /tmp
> /dev/sda8 15G 1.4G 13G 10% /usr
> /dev/sda9 7.4G 530M 6.5G 8% /var
> /dev/sda10 15G 33M 14G 1% /var/www
> /dev/sda13 15G 701M 14G 5% /chroot/32bit
> /home 103G 5.6G 92G 6% /chroot/32bit/home
> /tmp 7.4G 33M 7.0G 1% /chroot/32bit/tmp
> tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm
>
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 7 12 48195 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 13 24321 195262042+ 5
> Extended /dev/sda5 13 498 3903763+
> 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6 499 984 3903763+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 985 1957 7815591 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8 1958 3902 15623181 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 3903 4875 7815591 83 Linux
> /dev/sda10 4876 6820 15623181 83 Linux
> /dev/sda11 6821 7793 7815591 83 Linux
> /dev/sda12 7794 8766 7815591 83 Linux
> /dev/sda13 8767 10711 15623181 83 Linux
> /dev/sda14 10712 24321 109322293+ 83 Linux
>
>
> fdisk /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>
>
>
> top - 16:49:15 up 56 min, 2 users, load average: 0.82, 0.70,
> 0.49 Tasks: 97 total, 2 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped,
> 0 zombie Cpu(s): 13.5% us, 6.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 69.1% id,
> 7.8% wa, 1.2% hi, 1.7% si
> Mem: 2059056k total, 2047008k used, 12048k free,
> 4096k buffers Swap: 3903752k total, 0k used, 3903752k
> free, 1786264k cached
>
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