Le Mercredi 2 Octobre 2002 17:18, vous avez �crit : > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD writer is > > connected to my motherboard [Most likely, I also had this problem with > > 8.2, but my hardware setup was different there, so it's not the best to > > compare] > > I was unable to install with the drive connected to the motherboard, so I > > disconnected, installed without it and have since tried to reconnect the > > drive and boot. All those attempts have resulted in lockups. > > > > I tried all combinations of apic/noapic in the bios and as a boot > > parameter to linux as well as with and without supermount. > > The net result: > > supermount has no effect on this freeze. > > Booting with/without noapic in lilo has no effect either. > > With APIC off in the bios, I can't even boot, but with APIC on in the > > bios, I can start and log into the console, but logging into KDE freezes > > the computer. > > The last message in the logs before the freeze is (unsurprisingly): > > Oct 1 17:45:56 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > > > > I put the output of dmesg up on the web: > > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~narfi/dmesg.txt > > and > > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~narfi/dmesg_noapic.txt > > for the 2 cases where supermount was enabled, apic enabled in bios and > > lilo was run with or without the "noapic" parameter. > > > > Please let me know if you need any more info > > Narfi. > > One important thing to add: I've read in the MSI forums that in the case > of 8.2, this bug only surfaced with BIOS version > 3.3. > I am using version 3.4 and would very much like to assist with making > Mdk work out of the box with the newer versions of the bios. > > Narfi.
Try to use hdparm and define a /etc/sysconfig/hardiskhdX (where X is the letter for your cd). In this config, uncomment dma=1 and move it to DMA=0. Reboot and see if it copes your problem. Stef
