On 2010-03-24 12:49, Rick Pasotto wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:31:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On 2010-03-24 12:08, Rick Pasotto wrote:On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote:On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On 2010-03-23 15:21, Rick Pasotto wrote:Additional problem: I aborted the ripping because it caused the monitor to turn off and then back on every few seconds. For the past few weeks the monitor has been occasionally cycling off and then on but only occasionally. While ripping with grip the cycling was constant.I tried again with grip and the results were worse. The monitor cycled off and on so fast it finally gave up and stayed off. I had to reboot.That's too weird. Anything in syslog, dmesg or /var/log/messages?Thanks for reminding me. I hadn't looked. Yes, I'm getting lots of errors on /dev/hda. Here are some examples: Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.680380] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hda Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.696160] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hda Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.716151] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hdaSeems like autofs isn't properly telling the kernel that media has changed.Is there something that I can do about that?
I'd google that error message.
and Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316244] hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316256] hda: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 } Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316262] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320570] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 9144696 Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320579] __ratelimit: 505 callbacks suppressed Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320585] Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 1143087 Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320596] Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 1143088
And those messages too.
Archive dvds I've burned and commercial dvds both load but then shortly the monitor cyclying begins and I eject the disk as quickly as I can.What kind of video do you have? On-board?Yes. The Xorg.log shows: Device "KM4M-V on-board video"Which probably shares system RAM. I bet the busy system is somehow saturating the memory channel(s), thus causing the flickering.This problem is *very* recent. Currently htop shows 465/946MB of systemRAM and only 91/1906MB of swap having been used.
It's not the *amount* of RAM, it's the *throughput*. -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower