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Re: Kernel 2.6.14-2 hangs on iMac G5 8,2 (ata1 timeout)



On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:00 +0200, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> > Does it happen if you disable the sound driver ? (prevent it from
> > loading or don't compile it at all if you are building your own
> > kernels).
> 
> It seems to be working now.  I could not convice the kernel image not to build with the sound modules
> so I simply erased the whole sound subtree from the /lib/modules and it's been working for thirty
> minutes now with the normal workload.  Thanks!
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what was happening?  The sound is not supported on my iMac and the module was
> not being loaded.  How can help the fact that I removed the sound modules?

The modules are being loaded and mess up with registers they shouldn't
touch. I'll have a fix for that but unfortunately not in 2.6.15
timeframe.

> Now I'm ready to test the patches for fan control, actually that's what I wanted to do all along. 
> Are they still the ones you mentioned a while ago?

Or just get a recent 2.6.15-rc* snapshot which includes them.

Ben.



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