From: Felix <fx...@gm...> - 2002-11-24 23:09:36
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:20:26 +0000 mat...@vi... wrote: > > In the past few months I've been noticing 2 problems with my A7M266-D > (dual athlon) computer (2 processors installed) with its ATI Radeon > 7500 gfx card: > > 1) Whenever I try to burn CD's at x20 it falls over very quickly > (about 12MBytes). Burning them at x8 at least gives me a chance of > backing things up but it wasn't perfect. > > 2) Whenever heavy disk IO (for example when Debian reads its package > database) is performed the whole of X hangs for tens of seconds, but > things like alsaplayer keep playing (and don't skip a beat). > > Anyway, I finally got fed up of this as I was sure it didn't use > to be this bad - so I decided to investigate. > > I was currently using 2.4.20-rc2-ac3 + ALSA + CVS DRI. I went back to > the old installation of 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 and everything works fine (this > also had ALSA and CVS DRI from about May). I then updated ALSA & DRI > to current, and it was back to its old bad behaviour. So I tried > 2.4.20-rc3 with the radeon.o DRM module it comes with (+ the ALSA > drivers) and everything works fine (well, apart from DRI!). Stopping > X, unloading the DRM module, insert the latest CVS version and start up X > again and we are back to not being able to write CD's again. > > Any comments/ideas? I'm having problems burning CDs at speeds higher than 16x too. But disabling DRI (no radeon.o module loaded) didn't change that. I'm using a stock 2.4.19 kernel + preemptible patch. On the console I see an IDE reset followed by "failure to handle paging request in kernel" and finally a kernel panic "killing interrupt handler\ninterrupt handler not syncing". CAPS lock and scroll lock LEDs blink. > Feel free to ask me for any additional information/testing you need > (although I'm rapidly running out of blank CD's!). Try it in dummy mode, if you're just testing ;-) > > Thanks, > > Matt Felix __\|/__ ___ ___ ___ __Tschüß_______\_6 6_/___/__ \___/__ \___/___\___You can do anything,___ _____Felix_______\Ä/\ \_____\ \_____\ \______U___just not everything____ fx...@gm... >o<__/ \___/ \___/ at the same time! |