On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Net Llama wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Susan Macchia wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have been keeping my RH 8.0 system up to date using the RHN services. I > > recently upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20-18.8, but when I try and burn a cd under > > that kernel, the system locks up - I mean freeze, no rsh, telnet, nada. > > /var/log/messages tells me nothing. > > What command are you using to burn cds?
I use gcombust (version 0.1.57). cdrecord is version 1.10-14 It happens at different points in the burn process (I am using re-writable cds for backup); sometimes when doing a fast blank, sometimes the blank works fine and it happens during the actual burn. Tried different CD-RW with same result. I didn't really pay attention to which commands gcombust was executing (prolly should've...). > > > > > Do you think that the version of cdtools is incompatible? I have done stock > > upgrades as I have no time for "roll your own". I've had to boot into an > > earlier kernel (2.4.18-27.8.0), so that I can burn CDs but now I see the > > following error at the console (and in /var/log/messages): > > > > Jul 10 00:59:45 gandalf kernel: via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec > > (0x9A0000) > > That looks like sound related stuff to me. Hmm, I am able to play sound with no problem (realplay, xmms, etc) - and when I probe /proc, I see that my sound card is a VIA82C686 AC97, so via82cxxx must be the module (its actually via82cxxx_audio). I only started seeing this after updating the kernal to 2.4.20 & running the old one because of the cd burning problems (of course I have't run long enough on the new kernel to really see). When I have time, I'll have to try out the various combos to see... ===== _____________________________ Susan Macchia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ - Running Linux - because life is too short for reboots... _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users