On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Sun, January 14, 2007 7:14 am, Tom Diehl wrote:
>> So is there a way to work around the bug?? Running the i586 kernel does
>> not make the errors go away. The thing I do not understand is, why
>> sometimes the kernel panics and other times the machine comes up and
>> plays after spending several minutes spewing errors.
>
>> From the dmesg output:
>
> ---
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
> hda: DMA timeout error
> hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> ---
>
> Did you disable cpufreqd? AFAIK the C3 requires that all DMA requests are
> stopped before changing the multiplier.
Assuming cpufreqd is part of cpuspeed then, yes it is disabled. The only thing
I can find on the system that refers to cpufreq are kernel modules.
"lsmod | grep cpufreq" returns nothing. In addition: locate cpufreq, also
returns nothing.
Am I missing something??
Regards,
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