I had previously reported that the Adaptec APA-1480 SlimSCSI cardbus
scsi host adapter didn't work in the 2.4.0-test1 kernels.
There were two problems. The first I don't fully understand because I
don't know much about PCI, but someone said the PCI expansion ROM wasn't
being enabled. Garth Reese posted a patch that enabled it. That fixed
my first problem, that the card wasn't recognized as a supported card.
I'm not sure if it was his patch or someone else's modification that
fixed this problem.
The second problem was that the aic7xxx driver wasn't working in the
patches since 2.4.0-test1. I was able to fall back to the unpatched
2.4.0-test1 code and make it work OK.
Right now everything works great in 2.4.0-test1-ac12 with no other
modifications applied. I can burn audio CD's with a Yamaha 4416SX CD-RW
drive; the sweet tunes of Three Dog Night are coming through the
headphones off the CDR I just burned, being played off the IDE DVD drive
internal to my laptop.
My machine is described in some detail at
http://www.goingware.com/laptop
HOWEVER - I had one random freeze that locked up the whole machine. I
didn't have another machine handy to try to ping my locked machine
from. The magic kernel break key didn't work, although I'd never tried
it before so I don't know if I pressed the key right or it would
ordinarily work. I thought it was XFree86 locked up but
ctrl-alt-backspace didn't quit the server. I had to power cycle the
machine. I was running all kinds of stuff so I don't know what caused
the problem - maybe just the fact that I was running all kinds of stuff.
-- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com crawford@goingware.comTilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
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