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

[Net Llama!]

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?

>
> 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.

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