Re: HEADS UP: Something is wrong with 2.6.5-7.104 and CD/DVD writing

From: baskitcaise (baskitcaise_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/13/04

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    Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:25:32 +0100

    cristian adjusted his/her tin foil beanie and asbestos underwear to
    write:

    > People are complaining lately about not being able to burn
    > successfully CDs/DVDs. That it is something wrong. Well, it is, in my
    > case at least.
    >
    > I have an IBM ThinkPad T20 with an IBM/Matsushita DVD-CDRW and I can
    > use also and external USB2.0 Plextor 708 DVD writer. I have the system
    > updated to the day with all SuSE's updates, no apt4rpm yet.
    >
    > I use Linux since pre-version 1.0 and SuSE since 1997 so,I think, I
    > know what I am talking about.
    >
    > The 2.6.5-7.104 kernel, in my case again, is BAD BAD BAD with writing
    > CDs/DVDs. Tests I did, in vain, because all I got were coasters:

    Works for me fine here latest of everything KDE 3.3, k3b, the full
    issue, no probs.
    >
    > - compiled and installed k3b-0.11.13 and 14 from source
    > - changed /etc/fstab from subfs to "normal" and back to subfs
    > - installed SuSE's xcdroast
    > - used the CD/DVD writing related apps from the command line interface

    Have used command line, xcdroast, k3b this morning to see if I can
    replicate your errors but all worked fine.

    >
    > All for nothing. The CD/DVD burning would fail with coasters or
    > system freezes (and the cdrom/dvd still spinning) and had to power
    > down to get out.

    What! all that experience and you don`t know about sysreq?

    >
    > And then, I booted back to 2.6.5-7.95 and everything is OK!
    >
    > Again: all SuSE's updates were performed, including the
    > k3b-0.11.12-4.1 update, up to August 8th,2004 (I use rsync to
    > get my local 9.1 updates repository from ftp.gwdg.de).
    >
    > So, the only difference is the fact that I booted with 2.6.5-7.95 (and
    > its modules, which I saved - smart) instead of 2.6.5-7.104.
    >
    > Conclusion: something is WRONG with 2.6.5-7.104 !!!!!!!!!!!

    Nothing wrong here with that kernel at all, in fact is fixes a load of
    probs I had with the old one.

    >
    > Well, it looks like since SuSE's part of the American Novell, where
    > "Time to Market" is probably the motto/mantra, the quality is not
    > there anymore (remember the hotplug and subfs and ...).
    >

    As other people have pointed out Novell had nothing to do with the
    release of 9.1.

    I smell a bridge and something underneath. 

    -- 
Mark
Iligitimi Non Carborundum!
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