Owner's Manual

Installation Instructions and Important Information 11
Large Virtual Resolution Displayed When DRAC Is Present
When Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) is present in a PowerEdge
system, the X Window System may present a virtual display resolution that is
larger than the actual monitor size. If this occurs and is bothersome, add the
following lines to the Device section in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file:
Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS, NONE"
Option "DDCMode"
Installation Hangs on PowerEdge 6800 and 6850 With Less Than Four CPUs
When you install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP2 or earlier on
PowerEdge 6800 or 6850 that contains fewer than four processors, the
installation hangs due to a kernel bug. To work around this issue, pass acpi=
off to the installer. This bug causes a problem only in the default (uniprocessor)
kernel and does not affect the Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) kernel.
As only the SMP kernel is installed on the system, you do not see the problem
after you install the operating system. This bug is fixed in SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 9 SP3 (kernel 2.6.5-7.244) and later.
Installing on Systems With Less Than 512 MB of RAM
For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 EM64T, Graphical User Interface (GUI)
mode installation is not supported on systems with less than 512 MB of RAM.
If your system has less than 512 MB of RAM, use the text mode to install
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on PowerEdge SC430, SC830,
and SC850
Device driver support for the Intel 82801GR SATA controller on PowerEdge
SC430, SC830, and SC850 was not added natively to SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 9 until SP 2 (2.6.5-7.191 kernel). To install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
on these systems, use SP 2 or later.
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on the Adaptec 39320
SCSI Controller
Device driver support for the Adaptec 39320 SCSI controller was not added
natively to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 until SP 2 (2.6.5-7.191 kernel).
To install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on these systems, use SP 2 or later.
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