Do you have Fedora running on AMD Quad/hex CPU?

xprezons · #1 19th October 2010, 02:08 PM

A friend asked me if I could build him a workstation that could run Fedora. I was curious to know if anyone has a stable Fedora system running AMD Phenom CPU (4 or 6 core) (preferably on a Gigabyte motherboard) so that I could draw on that experience and get it right the first time around, since my own system can be somewhat temperamental at times.

If yes, please can you share the system specs:

CPU
motherboard (Make / Model)
graphics card (if any)
any cards
what monitor / display do you use? (Make/Model)

Is your BIOS configuration different from "Optimised Defaults" for the motherboard? If so, can you specify the most important options for your system settings?
Do you use any virtualization software? (VirtualBox, VMWare, XEN etc) Which one? What BIOS options are available to enable / disable virtualization? Did you have to configure iommu settings?
Have you encountered any issues with USB device support with your system?
Does Fedora recognise and load appropriate drivers for all the hardware components correctly?
What mode are the disk drives connected in IDE / SATA-AHCI / SATA-RAID?
Have you tried enabling compiz? Does it work on your system?

Thanks for your time.

beaker_ · #2 19th October 2010, 04:01 PM

I have it running on number of them. They're running on the cheapest Athlon 64 quads and just under 3GHz.

Yes, yep, unhuh no issues.

pete_1967 · #3 19th October 2010, 06:31 PM

See my sig, no compiz.

***glennzo*** · #4 19th October 2010, 09:47 PM

12, 13, and 14 running stable on the Phenom in my sig.

droidhacker · #5 21st October 2010, 06:36 PM

Couple of them, an older phenomX4-9850, Asus M3A78-CM with onboard Radeon 3100 running a single DVI monitor (can run a second on the displayport). Second one is an X6-1090T, ECS-A890GXMA mainboard (onboard Radeon 4290), running TWO DVI monitors... Second monitor on the Displayport. This board's Displayport is defective though, wired incorrectly. Required a little bit of kernel hacking to force-enable the thing since the DDC appears not to be connected -- the asus board is wired better and can run a second monitor without needing any weird hacks. Didn't return that board since it was the ONLY AMD-800 chipset board with a displayport.

jbuckley2004 · #6 21st October 2010, 11:52 PM

I'm running an AMD Phenom 9600 Quad, on a Gigabyte S-series motherboard (GA-MA69G-S3H),
using a Nvidia GForce 8400 video card and an old NIC with Atheros AR2413 chip set.

My monitor is on old NEC 1700M+ that works fine.

The only BIOS default that I ever changed was the boot order. No virtualization software. I do have one USB problem. I can't get the system to recognize that a device is plugged into one of the two front panel USB ports. I spent only a little time looking at the jumpers on the MB, and it seemed to be exactly as ordered, so I'm blaming the documentation for that one.

I've recognized no problems with Fedora loading drivers supplied in the repositories or installation disks (both the live versions and the full DVD versions for F10-F13, but it is sometimes confusing if you have the 32-bit libraries installed (say, to run the 32-bit version of the Flash Plugin in Firefox).

I've been using Fedora since F10, and only had minor stability problems that I think were related to using Compiz back then. I haven't used it since, and haven't had stability problems.

Kobuck · #7 25th October 2010, 05:22 AM

System Configuration

ASUS M4A77D
• AMD 770 / SB710
• BIOS v 2201 2010/06/23 (latest)
AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor
4 x CORSAIR TWIN2X4096-6400C5
• 8GB DDR2 memory @ 800Mhz
1 x ATI RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] PCIe 2.0 x 16
2 x WD 320GB HD w SATA-II, BIOS config as AHCI
1 x WD 400GB HD w SATA , BIOS config as AHCI

Fedora 14-Beta
Linux 2.6.35.6-46.fc14.x86_64
GNOME 2.32.0

BIOS enabled for AHCI, Memory hole remapping (aka GART or IOMMU ), SVM (enables virtual support)

Monitor is an older LG Flatron LCD running at 1280x1024 @ 60Hz (native res)

Running the QEMU-KVM support provided in the distribution.
virtual machines for F13-x86_64/Gnome, F13-x86_64/XFCE, and Win XP Pro 32-bit

The AMD 4000 series graphics cards seem to have the most complete support in the standard Fedora distribution. The 5000 series still has some work in process ( although I have no personal experience), the nouveau support gave me real trouble on a 9800GT nvidia card, but the fusion packages worked well.

I am running all of above: 64bit, >4GB memory, AMD 4650, AMD 9850 Phenom ... under the F14 Beta ( with all updates applied ) and everything is rock solid ( this note will probably activate Murphy's law and crash my system now

) Ran fine under F13 as well.

LaKing · #8 26th October 2010, 01:58 AM

Some exotic stuff, like spanned monitors with some new graphic cards can be tricky sometimes.
.. or too old graphic cards.

CPU wise, and virtualisation wise, no problems. No need for any special settings.

I prefer to use most of my disks in Hardware RAID arrays.
.. the only disadvantage there is that you might have no SMART monitoring in the RAID array.
If no HW Raid, you will use JBOD. ( SATA-AHCI )

rapiddescent · #9 13th December 2010, 09:00 PM

(NOW FIXED problems, wrong 1600Mhz memory included with mobo)

Quote:

Originally Posted by xprezons

CPU
motherboard (Make / Model)
graphics card (if any)
any cards
what monitor / display do you use? (Make/Model)

Is your BIOS configuration different from "Optimised Defaults" for the motherboard? If so, can you specify the most important options for your system settings?
Do you use any virtualization software? (VirtualBox, VMWare, XEN etc) Which one? What BIOS options are available to enable / disable virtualization? Did you have to configure iommu settings?
Have you encountered any issues with USB device support with your system?
Does Fedora recognise and load appropriate drivers for all the hardware components correctly?
What mode are the disk drives connected in IDE / SATA-AHCI / SATA-RAID?
Have you tried enabling compiz? Does it work on your system?

Running Fedora 14 - and it crashes randomly. Typically when I am burning DVD disks are anything particularly cumbersome. I'm was about to apply a bios patch to the mobo and was searching around and found this thread.

* sometimes when it crashes the scroll light flashes
* sometimes fedora goes to the blue start screen
* other times it just freezes - and I can't alt-ctrl-f1 to console etc.

F14 shows all the CPU's: (top then press "1")

Quote:

top - 20:55:28 up 49 min, 3 users, load average: 1.12, 1.13, 1.18
Tasks: 260 total, 1 running, 259 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 9.6%us, 12.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.3%id, 1.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 7.7%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.5%id, 0.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 0.7%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu5 : 0.7%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3797952k total, 1659100k used, 2138852k free, 98488k buffers
Swap: 8191996k total, 0k used, 8191996k free, 803032k cached

AMD Phenom II x6 1055T
ASUS M4A89GTP PRO/USB with 4Gb corsair 1600 memory
onboard radion graphics
standard lcd monitor
have the core-unlocker switched on (physical switch the motherboard)
USB3 works fine
have a sata3 dvd writer and disks (no raid)
compiz is fine

rapiddescent · #10 16th December 2010, 12:15 AM

if anyone has come by this thread with the same problems as me; can you try switching off "Cool 'n Quiet" in the BIOS settings and see if it makes any difference.

references:

rapiddescent · #11 18th December 2010, 08:11 PM

FIXED - now have solid platform:
the mobo vendor included the wrong memory (Corsair Dominator CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) instead of something from the QVL, i.e. not a fedora issue.

now have cool 'n quiet switched on and everything is working as it should. powernon-k8 is working fine and reporting 6 cores.

Dark Star · #12 19th December 2010, 02:52 AM

Working stable on an unlocked Phenom II X4 24x7.

Code:

[shashwat@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B50 Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 3100.164
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 6200.32
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B50 Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 3100.164
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 1
initial apicid  : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 6200.41
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B50 Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 3100.164
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 2
initial apicid  : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 6200.43
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B50 Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 3100.164
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 3
initial apicid  : 3
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 6200.41
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

[shashwat@localhost ~]$

The setup :

Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.1ghz
Jetway Ha07 790GX board
ATI HD4770
4 GB DDR2 800 Mhz
1.6 TB Hard Disk

Code:

[shashwat@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
[shashwat@localhost ~]$

If yes, please can you share the system specs:

CPU - Phenom II X4
motherboard (Make / Model) Jetway Ha07
graphics card (if any) ATI HD4770
any cards
what monitor / display do you use? (Make/Model) Samsung S2233SW Full HD
Is your BIOS configuration different from "Optimised Defaults" for the motherboard? If so, can you specify the most important options for your system settings? Yes
Do you use any virtualization software? (VirtualBox, VMWare, XEN etc) Which one? What BIOS options are available to enable / disable virtualization? Did you have to configure iommu settings? Yes
Have you encountered any issues with USB device support with your system? No
Does Fedora recognise and load appropriate drivers for all the hardware components correctly? Yes
What mode are the disk drives connected in IDE / SATA-AHCI / SATA-RAID? SATA ACHI
Have you tried enabling compiz? Does it work on your system? Yes, kinda sluggish on xorg radeon stack.

***Dan*** · #13 19th December 2010, 10:25 PM

Rock solid on F11, F13 and F14 here.

Sysinfo:

Code:

    description: Desktop Computer
    product: GA-790FXTA-UD5
    vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=36434630-3439-3545-3736-3037FFFFFFFF
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: GA-790FXTA-UD5
       vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       version: x.x
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: F2 (12/03/2009)
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
          slot: Socket M2
          size: 800MHz
          capacity: 800MHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 200MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: a
             slot: Internal Cache
             size: 128KiB
             capacity: 128KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
        *-cache:1
             description: L3 cache
             physical id: c
             slot: External Cache
             size: 512KiB
             capacity: 512KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
     *-cache
          description: L1 cache
          physical id: b
          slot: Internal Cache
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 128KiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 28
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 8GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM 1800 MHz (0.6 ns)
             physical id: 0
             slot: A0
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1800MHz (0.6ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM 1800 MHz (0.6 ns)
             physical id: 1
             slot: A1
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1800MHz (0.6ns)
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM 1800 MHz (0.6 ns)
             physical id: 2
             slot: A2
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1800MHz (0.6ns)
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMM 1800 MHz (0.6 ns)
             physical id: 3
             slot: A3
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1800MHz (0.6ns)
     *-pci:0
          description: Host bridge
          product: RD790 Northbridge only dual slot PCI-e_GFX and HT3 K8 part [1002:5956]
          vendor: ATI Technologies Inc [1002]
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 00
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          configuration: latency=32
          resources: memory:0-1fffffff
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A) [1002:5978]
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc [1002]
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
             resources: irq:25 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:f8000000-fbffffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: G92+ [GeForce GTS 250] [10DE:615]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation [10DE]
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a2
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                resources: irq:18 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:f8000000-f9ffffff ioport:ef00(size=128) memory:fb000000-fb01ffff(prefetchable)
        ~ snip ~

Ernst0 · #14 9th February 2012, 12:27 AM

I am learning all about the AMD 8-core at the moment.

There is a hang up over video I assume but what is IOMMU and do I turn it on or leave it off?

I have a thread here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...58#post1553358 for those wishing to see what experiences I have.

I found this thread because of the IOMMU issue
This is a BioStar 990FXE AM3+ motherboard

I get to learn yeah.. It's a long way from 48kbyte Z80 friends! AKA not in Kansas any more.

Ernst0

GoinEasy9 · #15 9th February 2012, 12:49 AM

[GoinEasy9@fedora16dwkde ~]$ inxi -F
System: Host: fedora16dwkde Kernel: 3.2.3-2.fc16.i686.PAE i686 (32 bit)
Desktop: KDE 4.7.4 Distro: Fedora release 16 (Verne)
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M4N82 DELUXE version: Rev 2.00 Bios: American Megatrends version: 0703 date: 05/27/2009
CPU: Quad core AMD Phenom II X4 955 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm)
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 3200.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: nVidia G92 [GeForce 9800 GT]
Fedora X.org: 1.11.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV92 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2
Audio: Card-1: nVidia MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Card-2: Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX driver: USB Audio
Network: Card: nVidia MCP77 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
IF: em1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:26:18:32:33:d9
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (4.3% used) 1: /dev/sda ST3500410AS 500.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 50G used: 7.5G (16%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 50G used: 7.5G (16%) fs: ext4
ID: /home size: 407G used: 13G (4%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 1022M used: 120M (13%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 8.59GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0C mobo: 31.0C gpu: 63.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3154 sys-1: 1829 sys-2: 1117
Info: Processes: 167 Uptime: 44 min Memory: 735.5/4028.4MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.28

I built this machine around the time I started using Fedora 11, it's run every version fast and it stays cool even with heavy graphics use. While some folks knock the Asus mobo's, I've never had problems with them, especially with them running Linux.
I haven't seen the 8 core AMD's yet, but for my next desktop, I've been considering a 6 core AMD. I've been waiting for the prices to come down.