[ltp] T61, Lenovo quality, Linux pre-installed, alternatives

[Jose Celestino]

Words by John Jason Jordan [Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:14:39PM -0700]:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:37:07 +0100
> Jose Celestino <japc@co.sapo.pt> dijo:
> 
> > > If you are using 64-bit Linux, I note that one of the new features of
> > > Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) will be power saving features which are the equal
> > > of 32-bit Linux. Hardy's release will be Thursday. Can't wait!
> > 
> > Yes, as I have the laptop for only, dunno, 3 or 4 weeks I did install it
> > with a Hardy Alpha (4 i think).
> > 
> > Oh, a problem I forgot to mention is that most of the times burn a dvd
> > fails and dmesg shows:
> > 
> > [ 4220.666499] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> > [ 4220.666522] ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:80/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 32768 out
> > [ 4220.666525]          cdb 2a 00 00 00 02 20 00 00  10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > [ 4220.666528]          res 40/00:02:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> > [ 4220.666534] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> > [ 4221.868913] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> > [ 4223.018914] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
> > [ 4223.018924] ata4: soft resetting link
> > [ 4223.170491] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
> > [ 4223.170516] ata4: EH complete
> 
> I also notice that Hardy comes with a different default burner. I don't
> know if it will solve your problem when you upgrade to the final. If
> not, try K3b or some other burner. There are several you can try.

Tried :) Coming from KDE as I am K3B is my favorite burning app. This is
a driver issue it seems, something related to IRQs from what I've read
so it will be fixed one day or the other. What I noticed is that fresh
after a reboot the burner works flawlessly, after a suspend it fails,
maybe there's some relation. Anyway, I don't burn many dvds.

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