On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 2010-03-23 15:21, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >>>Additional problem: I aborted the ripping because it caused the monitor > >>>to turn off and then back on every few seconds. For the past few weeks > >>>the monitor has been occasionally cycling off and then on but only > >>>occasionally. While ripping with grip the cycling was constant. > > > >I tried again with grip and the results were worse. The monitor cycled > >off and on so fast it finally gave up and stayed off. I had to reboot. > > That's too weird. Anything in syslog, dmesg or /var/log/messages?
Thanks for reminding me. I hadn't looked. Yes, I'm getting lots of errors on /dev/hda. Here are some examples: Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.680380] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hda Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.696160] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hda Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.716151] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hda and Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316244] hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316256] hda: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 } Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316262] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320570] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 9144696 Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320579] __ratelimit: 505 callbacks suppressed Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320585] Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 1143087 Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320596] Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 1143088 Archive dvds I've burned and commercial dvds both load but then shortly the monitor cyclying begins and I eject the disk as quickly as I can. > What kind of video do you have? On-board? Yes. The Xorg.log shows: Device "KM4M-V on-board video" -- Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100324170851.ge4...@niof.net