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Sunday, October 24, 2004 |
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Linux on AMD-64 redux: well, not for the first time, the many and varied wonders of x86 - actually, AMD-64 in this case - architecture were the culprit underlying the failure of the SuSe 9.1 install on my new Shuttle minti-ATX, AMD-64, SATA box.
I just assumed the serial ATA was the culprit, or the nVidia n3 board chipset, or the Silicon Image SATA driver, or the USB multi-card reader... or some other advanced feature of the board.
Nope. All that stuff installed fine once I solved the real problem. And that was... the CD/DVD ROM ATA jumper setting. The drive's docs suggest using the Master setting and it was thus set. The Shuttle SN85G4 docs offer no advice: but the labels on the IDE cable suggested that 'Cable Select' might be the right way to go. I switched, and sure enough, the SuSe install did not hang. Oy... try the simple things first, I guess.
By this time, of course, I had pulled the new SATA drive and put a regular ATA drive in the machine. Rather than spend a long time installing on an older drive, I stopped the install, replaced the SATA drive and re-installed. Sure enough, it worked. I'm now waiting for the installer to download a 100 MB or so of patches that have come out since the SuSe 9.1 release... |
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Linux and 3D fans will enjoy an article by Leigh Orf in this month's Linux Journal "Scientific Visualizations with POV Ray." Orf is a meteorologist who finds visualizing 3D weather data a challenge: a 4-hour storm simulation generates about 200 MB even using lossy file compression.
POV-Ray (short for Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer) is an open source package that is mainly used to make photo-realistic renderings of scenes created in 3D modeling apps. POV-Ray was never intended for Orf's application, but, since it's open source, Orf was able to patch the code to deal with his monster data sets and other issues. Article contains a good discussion of how POV-Ray works... Orf's blog has some interesting stills and animations... |
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The System of the World, the 3rd book Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, was waiting on the porch when I returned from Illinois. I enjoyed the first two, Quicksilver and The Confusion, and am really looking forward to the 3rd volume. Back to Sir Isaac Newton, Jack Shaftoe, Eliza and Enoch Root... Comments 3:50:21 PM 
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Updated 11/1/04; 7:33:49 AM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 11/1/04; 7:33:49 AM
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