Relic2K Posted February 28, 2003 Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 I spent the last 2 days installing Mandrake 9.1 rc 1, with a new 120 Gig drive which gives me a total of 200 Gigs of space now. My problems is that the system is running slower, and I am not seeing the option in Lilo/Grup to boot the SMP Kernel ? Is there a way to check for sure whether I am running both CPUs or not ? And why has the SMP kernel been removed from the boot up process in 9.1 ? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted February 28, 2003 Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 type 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'. You should get info for 2 cpus. If the kernel isn't compiled with SMP support, you'll see info for only 1 cpu. Here is the ouput for my server: [gd@localhost gd]$ cat /proc/cpuinfoprocessor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : Pentium Pro stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 199.435 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov bogomips : 397.31 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : Pentium Pro stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 199.435 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov bogomips : 398.13 I guess you'll have to install the SMP kernel manually if it isn't in /boot already. MOtTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted February 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 Thanks MottS :) I thought Mandrake autodetected the SMP setup, and built and option in the Lilo Boot ? I know 9.0 did this for me, I didn't have to recompile the kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted February 28, 2003 Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 So .. did 9.1 rc1 detected your second cpu or not ? MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted February 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 Nope, which explains the damn sluggishness, hopefully they deal with this by the final releases. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted February 28, 2003 Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 I'm sure you can install the SMP kernel from RPMDrake. Take a look at it and install it. You'll probably have to modify Lilo after the installation according to what is new in /boot. If they didn't include an SMP kernel with RC1, install the kernel-source and recompile the kernel with SMP support... your computer will be happy after that :wink: Good luck MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted March 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 Okay got everything installed now and I have an option to choose that kernel in the boot up (lilo). When I boot into the smp kernel, I can no longer go into X, I am having problems with the nviida drivers. Did you run into this problem too MottS ? I tried to remove the packages and recompile them from src, and reinstall them, but even this is giving me a problem now. Any ideas ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 Okay got everything installed now and I have an option to choose that kernel in the boot up (lilo). When I boot into the smp kernel, I can no longer go into X, I am having problems with the nviida drivers. Did you run into this problem too MottS ? I tried to remove the packages and recompile them from src, and reinstall them, but even this is giving me a problem now. Any ideas ? I only installed 9.1RC1 on a uniprocessor machine. Didn't install it on my server yet .. I'll wait 9.1 final. However I got problems compiling the nVidia drivers too. The rpmbuild command was complaining about IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH. So I did the following. Hope this will works for you.. 1) Remove any instance of the nVidia driver by typing the following as root rpm -ev --nodeps NVIDIA_GLX rpm -ev --nodeps NVIDIA_kernel 2) Make sure the 'kernel-source' and 'rpmrebuilder' are installed from rpmdrake... 3) type the following as root to satisty the compiler and compile the driver export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=true rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_* 4) As root again, type the following to install the driver. .. you know that one right? rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/NVIDIA_* It will probably work this way too on a multi-processor machine... hopefully for you .. :wink: Hope this help MOTtS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c_m_f Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 why not try compiling the nvidia drivers from source? thats all i do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 why not try compiling the nvidia drivers from source? thats all i do. What do you think 'rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_*' does ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c_m_f Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 ahh didnt read over properly, just saw rpm and jumped! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 ahh didnt read over properly, just saw rpm and jumped!lol You are pardonned .. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c_m_f Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 why thankyou, its appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted March 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 MottS; Got it all running now. I had to use the "rpm -ev --nodeps --allmatches NVIDIA_*" to get all instances of it removed properly. Once this was done, I was able to get the drivers installed and running properly again. Thanks for the help :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 MottS; Got it all running now. I had to use the "rpm -ev --nodeps --allmatches NVIDIA_*" to get all instances of it removed properly. Once this was done, I was able to get the drivers installed and running properly again. Thanks for the help :wink: Cool :D Did you use the 'export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=true' or gcc were happy enough ? .. just curious because I installed RC1 on two uni-processor boxes and I had to use that command in both cases. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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