severity 467009 important thanks since the CD-ROM is completely unusable with this kernel and boot time is very slow due to all these timeouts on /dev/hda.
On 2008-02-22 14:35:23 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-02-22 13:47:34 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > After a "mount /cdrom" (corresponding device is /dev/hda), the system > > completely froze. I couldn't reboot with the keyboard. I had to press > > the power button. After the reboot, the X server was no longer working > > (I didn't even get the NVIDIA logo just after typing "startx"). I had > > to reinstall the NVIDIA driver. These problems could be related to the nvidia-* packages (now removed since they weren't necessary). > > Note: in the kernel logs, I get lots of bad messages concerning hda, > > corresponding to the CD-ROM drive. There were no such problems with > > the 2.6.23 kernel I used before (I had to upgrade due to the security > > hole). > > I've looked at the dmesg output of the old kernel, and the CD-ROM > drive was seen as a SCSI device. > > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 With linux-image-2.6.18-4-686-bigmem (when the machine was installed in 32 bits, with the *same* hardware), there was no problem either, and dmesg gave: hda: PHILIPS DVD+/-RW DVD8801, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)