Freeze while CD burning on RH 8.0 (2.4.20-18.8)

[Susan Macchia]

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.

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)

I have NO clue what this is about at all (what is via82cxxx ?).  I am running
vmware 4.0 regularly to tunnel into work.  I did upgrade the memory recently
(within the last week or so) from 3 128 sticks to 3 256 sticks (because of
vmware).  These are the only changes other than stock upgrades from RHN.  I am
assuming there may be an incompatibility with the kernel version I am running
(which is older) and some software upgrades from RHN.

Any help is greatly appreciated

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Susan Macchia
mailto:susan at smacchia.net
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