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This article was about my main working PC which I used from May 2008 to September 2018.
Hardware
Mainboard: GA-MA770-DS3
CPU: Athlon64 X2 5000+ (2x 2600 MHz) HEEA67
HDD: ST3500320AS
GPU: EAH2400PRO MAGIC/HTP/256M (ATI Radeon HD2400 PRO) JAXV96
All console output below was made with Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, screenshots made with Windows XP and Windows 2008 R2.
Mass Storage
See sub article Michimain/Mass Storage
uname -a
Linux xub1204x64 3.2.0-55-generic #85-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 2 12:29:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 107 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv bogomips : 2008.98 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 107 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv bogomips : 2008.98 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RX780/RX790 Host Bridge 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RX780/RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F) 00:12.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA 00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI0) 00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI1) 00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI2) 00:13.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI3) 00:13.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI4) 00:13.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) 00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14) 00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 IDE 00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 PRO] 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV610 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 2350/2400 Series] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01) 03:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio (rev 10) 03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
blkid
/dev/sda2: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="4E6C3C246C3C08EB" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda3: LABEL="Win2008" UUID="86C83F57C83F4529" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda5: LABEL="Daten1" UUID="56583FF6583FD409" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda6: LABEL="Daten2" UUID="b14a3171-db30-4674-ad18-2c2f3fc4297b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdb1: LABEL="xub1204" UUID="fee7cadf-7778-4887-9e67-116c6b3596c2" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdb2: UUID="de1f107a-b5f5-49eb-9c69-46721b8b3b77" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb3: LABEL="SWAP2008" UUID="A2D8B36BD8B33C7B" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdb4: LABEL="xub1204x64" UUID="4a0b551e-ea3b-484c-90ab-dd5f952c2dfb" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdb5: LABEL="data" UUID="8ee0ba79-86e9-4ff5-bcb4-0213c54139eb" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdc1: LABEL="WinXPP_NEU" UUID="D6F8106C8C60509A" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdc2: LABEL="baros" UUID="50855fd1-e5c6-46d5-91af-a451cf6ffdcd" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdc3: LABEL="VPCs" UUID="38B61ACA38EEA3F8" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdd1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="1AC628E3C628C13D" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdd2: LABEL="Win2008bak" UUID="A2A03785A0375F4B" TYPE="ntfs"
parted -l
Model: ATA ST3500320AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 8257kB 400GB 400GB extended lba 5 8258kB 385GB 385GB logical ntfs 6 385GB 397GB 11.7GB logical ext3 2 400GB 400GB 110MB primary ntfs boot 3 400GB 471GB 71.5GB primary ntfs Model: ATA OCZ-VERTEX2 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 15.7GB 15.7GB ext3 2 15.7GB 16.8GB 1074MB linux-swap(v1) 3 16.8GB 17.9GB 1074MB ntfs Basic data partition 4 17.9GB 33.6GB 15.7GB ext3 5 33.6GB 60.0GB 26.4GB ext3 Model: ATA Maxtor 6L250R0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 251GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 43.7GB 43.7GB primary ntfs boot 2 43.7GB 45.3GB 1636MB primary ext3 3 45.3GB 248GB 202GB primary ntfs Model: ATA ST380011A (scsi) Disk /dev/sdd: 80.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot 2 106MB 80.0GB 79.9GB primary ntfs
/proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 6113316 kB MemFree: 4366776 kB Buffers: 194916 kB Cached: 701464 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1024944 kB Inactive: 471424 kB Active(anon): 600732 kB Inactive(anon): 4360 kB Active(file): 424212 kB Inactive(file): 467064 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1048572 kB SwapFree: 1048572 kB Dirty: 136 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 599988 kB Mapped: 108080 kB Shmem: 5104 kB Slab: 127596 kB SReclaimable: 106556 kB SUnreclaim: 21040 kB KernelStack: 2576 kB PageTables: 23088 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 4105228 kB Committed_AS: 1721940 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 299516 kB VmallocChunk: 34359430692 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 45952 kB DirectMap2M: 6244352 kB
lsmod
Module Size Used by snd_hda_codec_hdmi 32474 1 pci_stub 12622 1 vboxpci 23237 0 vboxnetadp 13382 0 vboxnetflt 23478 0 vboxdrv 287130 3 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt lirc_sir 17995 0 lirc_dev 19204 1 lirc_sir psmouse 97519 0 serio_raw 13211 0 snd_hda_intel 33719 3 snd_hda_codec 127706 2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel snd_cmipci 45105 2 gameport 19693 1 snd_cmipci snd_pcm 97275 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_cmipci snd_opl3_lib 19391 1 snd_cmipci snd_hwdep 17764 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_opl3_lib snd_mpu401_uart 14169 1 snd_cmipci snd_seq_midi 13324 0 k8temp 13057 0 edac_core 53746 0 edac_mce_amd 23709 0 snd_rawmidi 30748 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi radeon 804577 2 snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 61929 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event sp5100_tco 13791 0 i2c_piix4 13301 0 snd_timer 29990 3 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq snd_seq_device 14540 4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq ttm 76949 1 radeon snd 79041 22 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device drm_kms_helper 46978 1 radeon drm 241971 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper soundcore 15091 1 snd i2c_algo_bit 13423 1 radeon snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm mac_hid 13253 0 rfcomm 47604 4 bnep 18281 2 bluetooth 180113 10 rfcomm,bnep parport_pc 32866 1 ppdev 17113 0 binfmt_misc 17540 1 lp 17799 0 parport 46562 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp firewire_ohci 41000 0 firewire_core 63600 1 firewire_ohci crc_itu_t 12707 1 firewire_core pata_atiixp 13204 0 r8169 62190 0
Issues
Windows XP SP 3 German
Installation date: 2006/12/30
- After system is booted and prompts for user name and password, the network interface does not work, although it already asked for address information from my DHCP server. It then needs about two minutes until the network interface is working. If I log in meanwhile, some applications crash, so I always have to ping from another PC or my cell phone and wait until responses arrive. Then I can log in. This does not happen if the computer awakes from hibernation mode. This issue exists since summer 2009 (don't know exact date, because I normally use hibernation mode and it needed some weeks that the problem appeared at all und to analyse it).
- Since some time in 2009, Java applets don't work in any browser (have got IE, Firefox and Opera). If the browser wants to load them, I see a "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException" in the console. Update: Tested on 2012/06/23 - works now on some pages.
- Since about the same time a dialog "Installing software..." appears every time a drive is added to Windows (i.e. by connecting a USB flash memory).
- Since some time in 2010, Java Swing doesn't work any more, only AWT. Swing applications cause the Java Runtime to crash at startup. Update: As of 2012/06/23, Swing applications work again suddenly.
- Since about January 2012, DirectX doesn't work realiably any more. In Loksim3D, for example, it doesn't draw the rails any more. I have not even an idea, why this happens. I haven't changed the hardware for years and the software configuration is the same for several months - despite Windows Updates of course, but the problem did not appear first time after a Windows Update.
- Since some time 2010 or 2011 (can't remember any more), Windows Media Player doesn't play most videos but instead shows a black screen and only plays audio. It doesn't report any error and the issue is independent of the codec used. VLC Player is also affected by that issue. There are workarounds for both players: In Windows Media Player, in the Options dialog, the graphical acceleration must be set to "Medium", in VLC Player in Settings/Video, "Windows GDI" must be selected.
- A general issue that is "by design": Windows XP generally knows Bluetooth, but the built-in bluetooth stack (in all Windows versions) doesn't support bluetooth headsets. There's no way to use my bluetooth headset in Windows. So, I have to boot into Ubuntu in order to use it.
- Yet another general issue that is "by design" that affects me since March 2011: At that time, I upgraded my memory from 2 GiB to 6 GiB. I always was sure that Windows XP could access so much memory via PAE, but I was partly wrong: The kernel has a lock inside that prohibits access to memory after 4 GiB (so the limit is not "by nature" but artifically programmed, just to bother people). Many people think that the 4 GiB is due to the "32 bit" of the CPU or operating system, which is complete nonsense (just think: How much RAM could Windows 3.x (was a 16 bit operating system) address? Was ist 64 KiB? No it wasn't, right?). Ubuntu 11.10 x86 (that's the 32 bit version) on my PC can access 6 GiB without any problem. At least, Microsoft is "nice" enough to let us know their limits. For Windows Vista/7/2008 I already found a hack to remove the lock, but for Windows XP I haven't found one yet. And unfortunately I have no time to make a hack myself currently.
Ubuntu 8.04/9.04/10.04 (original Kernel), Debian Squeeze (built 2009-09-14)
USB sometimes doesn't work at all, if it works, it only runs in USB 1.1 mode. Update Since Kernel 2.6.34, this isn't a problem any more. In Ubuntu, it's possible to install mainline kernels which I've done in 10.04, although it's orginally shipped with a lower version kernel.
Ubuntu 11.10
No issues: works perfectly and is realible and (especially Xubuntu) pretty fast.