Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:21:23PM +, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >>> > >>These kind of errors (hard freeze) are often either bugs in drivers or > >>faulty hardware. Kind of hard to diagnose, but one way t

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread andy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 07:29 +, andy wrote: If it is a driver bug are you thinking driver for the DVD reader, and if so then do you have any ideas on a fix? (Please respond back to the list and not to me directly.) Possibly bugs in the drivers for motherboard

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +, andy wrote: If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer with

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 07:29 +, andy wrote: > If it is a driver bug are you thinking driver for the DVD reader, and > if so then do you have any ideas on a fix? (Please respond back to the list and not to me directly.) Possibly bugs in the drivers for motherboard chipset, but that's just an un

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +, andy wrote: > > If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) > > when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer > > with the new media in it and th

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +, andy wrote: > If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) > when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer > with the new media in it and then the system will hard freeze - the > keyboard, mouse and power button

System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-12 Thread andy
Hi all I've been using Etch for a number of weeks now and am *so* really very satisfied and happy with it that I am going to be installing it on my partner's machine, replacing a long tradition of Slackware usage. Well done developers. If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasion