Re: SOLVED: Re: kded hangs in kde 3.4

[Johannes Raspe <j.raspe@t-online.de>]

James Tappin wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:17:22 +0200
> Johannes Raspe <j.raspe@t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> JR> Johannes Raspe wrote:
> JR>
> JR> > Hi all,
> JR> >
> JR> > everytime I exit a KDE-session, "kded" hangs and cannot be killed by
> JR> > "kill -9". I suspect this to be a hal/dbus related issue, because
> hald JR> > cannot be killed either.
> JR> > System is Debian Sid with latest alioth packages.
> JR> >
> JR> > Any ideas?
> JR> >
> JR> > Johannes
> JR> >
> JR> >
> JR> SORRY!
> JR> Seems not to be a kde-problem but a dma-problem with my cdrw which
> only JR> appears since I use hal/dbus because of kde 3.4.
> JR> Changing transfer-settings for the device seems to solve the problem.
> 
> To what? -- I have a rather similar problem on Ubuntu with an iBook.
> 
> James
> 
Hi,

it seems that issuing a "hdparm -d1 -X udma1" solved my problem. I think the 
kernel put the cdrw in udma2 mode, which caused the erratic behaviour.
I made this permanent by editing "/etc/hdparm.conf" like this:

/dev/hdc {
        dma = on
        transfer_mode = udma1
}

Hope this helps.

Johannes