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I'm using turion x2 laptop with smp activated with no problem. Previously I |
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was using athlon64 3200+ desktop but gentoo on laptop was installed from |
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scratch. |
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Kfiaciarka |
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2008/6/3 Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>: |
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> 2008/6/3 Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>: |
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>> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:01 +0000, Beso wrote: |
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>> > hi, |
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>> > i've got a strange problem with my new notebook pc. i've bought a pc |
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>> > with an amd athlon 64 x2 processor with 2 cores, an atheros board and |
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>> > an rs690 ati. |
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>> > my old pc was a turion 64 with an atheros board and an rs480. now the |
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>> > components inside are all about the same so i've just copied the old |
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>> > gentoo system into the new pc and tried to recompile the kernel to |
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>> > have it tuned for the new processor. so the thing i've done was to |
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>> > activate the symetric multiprocessing and set to compiled into the |
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>> > kernel of md4, md5, md6 and aes x86_64 chipers for a luks /home |
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>> > chipering. |
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>> > the problem is that with the old normal config the kernel detects one |
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>> > processor and one core and it works, loading the modules, but when |
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>> > enabling simetric multiprocessing the kernel detects just one |
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>> > processor and one core and then it fails to load modules because of a |
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>> > different executable format in the modules. |
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>> > the strange thing is that opensuse livecd and mandriva live cd |
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>> > recognize the double processor (/proc/cpuinfo has 2 lines) and is able |
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>> > to step it in the right way. does anyone has a hint on what to control |
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>> > in the kernel config to see what's wrong?! |
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>> > thanks. |
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>> > -- |
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>> > dott. ing. beso |
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>> If the attempt to boot does not end in a kernel panic; |
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>> use <shift-page up> to get to the top of the console output produced |
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>> during boot. If the boot loader has started an SMP kernel, a line |
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>> similar to this: "Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 (root@livecd) (gcc |
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>> version 4.1.1 (gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #1 SMP Sat May 24 14:06:10 EDT 2008" |
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>> should appear. The key word being SMP. No key word, "SMP", means that |
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>> "make menuconfig" (or whatever kernel configuration tool you use needs |
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>> to be redone. |
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>> As far as I know under, Processor type and features,: |
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>> [*] Symmetric multi-processing support |
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>> Subarchitecture Type (PC-compatible) ---> |
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>> Processor family (Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8) ---> |
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>> produces an appropriate SMP kernel. |
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>> A <shift-page down> should reveal a line like: |
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>> CPU has two num_cores |
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>> A couple more <shift-page down>: |
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>> Initializing CPU#0 |
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>> About 3 more <shift-page down>: |
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>> Brought up 2 CPU's. |
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>> About modules, I'm guessing modules compiled for single cpu have |
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>> differences from those compiled for multiple cpu. Also guessing |
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>> that /etc/modules/autoload.d and/or udev is trying to load single cpu |
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>> module(s) that were not written to adjust to a single cpu kernel. |
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> so grub needs a different line at startup when using multicore?! |
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> -- |
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> dott. ing. beso |
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pozdrawiam |
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Konrad Okurowski <dm.konrad@×××××.com> |
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