Just wondering which motherboard you are using and
any compatibility issues.
I’m running an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 with an Intel Core i7 920. No issues. It runs 64-bit openSUSE-11.2 very well.
On amd side, mobo Asus m4n78 pro. SuSE 64 KDE never been more amaizing for me 
just don’t use the mobo GPU, so the memory could be in it’s fastest state. My issues are more with the hdd(never by wd caviar green as OS disk).
Dfi mainboard with Amd 790FX chipset running an Phenom II X4, works fine.
MSI K9A2 CF paired with a Athlon II 630 X4. openSUSE 11.2 x86_64
I have a ASUS M4A78T-E with AMD Phenom II X4 955. Has worked really well so far with OpenSUSE 11.1 and now 11.2.
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R with a q6600. No problems whatsoever with compatibility.
Thanks to all that replied. I went with a Gigabyte board. All
seems well so far.
Precisely the same. And after the sound issues, and the installation issues see below ] und so weiter it’s working pretty well. Had to reinstall on a new disk last week, and I would guess 11.2 or KDE 4.3.5 is a fraction slower than earlier versions, but nothing to worry about.
Of more moment is the fact that from once to a number of times a day it freezes completely and needs a hard reset. As did it on the first install on this motherboard. Having gone through any number of memory timing sets as discussed on the G.Skill forums, and read devotedly on the Asus forums, plus having new graphics and sound cards ( which eliminates them ) I’m only too sure that this is down to only one CPU core working ( as opposed to the 4 cores seen in BIOS ) — which is due to having to install OpenSUSE 11.2 with any variation of noapic or acpi=off or pci=nommconf that will get the installing struggling through to the end — and which when installed with those flags means it will never ever use the ACPI functions and run more than one core.
As in this unanswered thread from someone with the same basic problem on another motherboard:
AMD Phenom Quad Processor Support - openSUSE Forums
Elsewhere I’ve seen suggestions that it is due to USB handling, and that one should set the BIOS to FullSpeed rather than HighSpeed ( this made no difference ), or perhaps take out all USB devices. Something not possible as this motherboard has no PS/2 connector for a mouse and only allows USB mice.
In my case it could well be ASUS’s fault for failing to work properly with OpenSUSE, or vice versa, however whilst I can imagine a motherboard with faults, I can’t actually imagine one that causes random freezes unrelated to the graphics, the sound or the memory etc…
I am using an Asus P5Q mobo with an Intel 6600. Works great with openSUSE 11.1 and higher. No problems whatsoever.
Cheers!
Romanator
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:38 +0000, GofBorg wrote:
> Just wondering which motherboard you are using and
> any compatibility issues.
Well… not a mb, but I’m running an xw6600 with dual
E5440’s at home and work… no issues.
Claverhouse adjusted his/her AFDB on Fri 16 April 2010 11:36 to write:
>
> rjgundo;2149394 Wrote:
>> I have a ASUS M4A78T-E with AMD Phenom II X4 955. Has worked really
>> well so far with OpenSUSE 11.1 and now 11.2.
>
>
> Precisely the same. And after the sound issues, and the installation
> issues see below ] -und so weiter- it’s working pretty well. Had to
> reinstall on a new disk last week, and I would guess 11.2 or KDE 4.3.5
> is a fraction slower than earlier versions, but nothing to worry about.
>
>
> Of more moment is the fact that from once to a number of times a day it
> freezes completely and needs a hard reset. As did it on the first
> install on this motherboard. Having gone through any number of memory
> timing sets as discussed on the G.Skill forums, and read devotedly on
> the Asus forums, plus having new graphics and sound cards ( which
> eliminates them ) I’m only too sure that this is down to only one CPU
> core working ( as opposed to the 4 cores seen in BIOS ) — which is
> due to having to install OpenSUSE 11.2 with any variation of noapic or
> acpi=off or pci=nommconf that will get the installing struggling
> through to the end — and which when installed with those flags means
> it will never ever use the ACPI functions and run more than one core.
>
> As in this unanswered thread from someone with the same basic problem
> on another motherboard:
>
> ‘AMD Phenom Quad Processor Support - openSUSE Forums’
> (http://tinyurl.com/y5rlezp)
>
>
> Elsewhere I’ve seen suggestions that it is due to USB handling, and
> that one should set the BIOS to FullSpeed rather than HighSpeed ( this
> made no difference ), or perhaps take out all USB devices. Something
> not possible as this motherboard has no PS/2 connector for a mouse and
> only allows USB mice.
>
>
> In my case it could well be ASUS’s fault for failing to work properly
> with OpenSUSE, or -vice versa-, however whilst I can imagine a
> motherboard with faults, I can’t actually imagine one that causes random
> freezes unrelated to the graphics, the sound or the memory etc…
>
>
I have a gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 board here that ran 11.1 and 11.2 with
a Phenom X3 in it and an ATI Radeon 4830 propriety driver, this ran flawless
with just 3 cores enabled and last year I tested using a bios switch that
enabled the 4th core, it ran for more than 6 months with all 4 cores at 100%
24/7 ( SETI+prime etc) plus doing everyday stuff at the same time.
A couple of weeks ago I dropped a Phenom x4 965 in the board, reset the bios
to default and have had these lockups or plain reboots since, after doing a
bit of research I noticed in my logs ( /var/log/messages ) that the hpet
was increasing, starting at 1500 then jumping up eventually the machine
would bomb mostly if I tried to watch something like a film or even a youtube
sometimes just leaving it running on its own. If I switched off kwin effects
it lasted a bit longer.
I tried everything I could think of, mem timings, different drivers for the
ATI, turning kwin effects on and off one at a time etc… but could not pin it
down.
Googled around and this is a known prob, I have not looked to far but found
that with mine if at the boot screen I add
hpet=disabled clocksource=jiffies
to the kernel params that the machine runs a lot more stable, I have only
had this set for today but so far have had no probs what so ever, been
watching vids etc etc all with prime and seti running and stable as a rock.
If you want to try do it like I have and add it manual at boot so if
anything goes wrong it is not there on reboot, if it works for me for a
while with no downside I will add it permanent to the grub menu.
HTH
–
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
AMD Phenom II x4 QuadCore 3.0GHz,
runs great:)
digitalpalmtree adjusted his/her AFDB on Sat 17 April 2010 19:06 to write:
>
> AMD Phenom II x4 QuadCore 3.0GHz,
> runs great:)
>
>
Yeah it seems a bit weird that my other AMD Phenom X3 ( with all 4 cores
unlocked and running ) runs with no probs in this board but my quad Phenom
shows this problem and that is just with a straight swap, now changes to
anything. The BIOS is set to defaults for both chips.
The only real difference is that the X3 is a standard CPU and the X4 is a
black edition so the quad is “unlocked” at the factory and I can mess with
the freq`s and multiplier if I want but have not tried yet
However just by adjusting the clocksource so that it default back to jiffies
and not use hpet it runs stable.
I can now watch video etc without disabling kwin effects. Before when I left
the machine on overnight to do SETI when I came to it in the morning I could
see/hear degradation to the sound and also it just did not feel right,
sluggish, and as soon as I tried to start an app or browse then I would get
either a complete freeze that even sysrq would not get me out of or the
machine would quite literally just reboot, no logs nothing a complete
instantaneous reboot.
–
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum