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

[ronnie gauthier]

Try unloading and reloading via82xxx_audio. I tried to help a friend in our user
group a while back and they had that problem with a via chipset, a SB live and
RH7x maybe 7.2 IIRC. When I seached google a lot of people had the same driver
problem. We fixed it by installing W2000( not my idea!). You could also try
using the alsa drivers.

A lockup like that sounds like a possible IRQ conflict. Is PNP enabled?

Ronnie

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:23:07 -0700 (PDT) - Susan Macchia <susan at smacchia.net>
wrote the following
Re: Re: Freeze while CD burning on RH 8.0 (2.4.20-18.8)

>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...
>
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