Package: kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686 Version: 2.6.9-3 Severity: normal When doing something relatively HD intensive the task itself freezes for a while and eventually the whole system stops accepting input for a few seconds and I get the following in dmesg output:
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hda: DMA timeout error hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hda: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success Here's my hardware (It's a Sony Vaio K623B laptop): 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M] 0000:00:03.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller 0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 0000:00:06.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller 0000:00:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller 0000:00:0a.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Cont. an 0000:00:0c.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0000:00:0c.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0000:00:0c.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M 0000:02:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.74 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information