On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:09:44AM -0400, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > > > Anyhow. I disabled the sound chip yesterday and the crashes stopped. > > > > This morning I tried to use the CD burner (box was running White-Box > > Linux up until about a month ago and neither the burner nor the sound > > worked on that - 2.4.x kernel). Totally hopeless so I upgraded from > > 2.6.8-1-k7 (aka 2.6.8-5) to 2.6.8-2-k7 (aka 2.6.8-13) and the burner > > worked flawlessly (sarge-businesscard.iso, rc3 :-). > > Installed 2.6.8-16 yesterday and turned sound back on. Was stable until > keyboard locked up sending email with evolution this morning. > > > > > Bravely, I turned the sound back on and discovered that the CD burner > > had disappeared. Started up playing some .ogg files and reading mail > > with evolution and KABOOM. Took about 5 minutes to crash again. > > > > Turned the sound back OFF and rebooted and it has been fine ever since. > > The CD burner has returned.
This looks more like a conflict between the sound card and the CD burner than a kernel problem. Specifically I find very strange the CD burner would not work with White-Box Linux. What kind of CD burner do you have that won't work with a 2.4 kernel with ide-scsi ? Have you checked the BIOS and your hardware ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
