From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264334AbTDKLfN (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:35:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264335AbTDKLfN (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:35:13 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:7949 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264334AbTDKLfM (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:35:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:39:08 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, 76306.1226@compuserve.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7* claims all checked EISA io ranges Message-Id: <20030411133908.5f28a721.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <524390000.1049993090@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> References: <200304082124_MC3-1-3399-FBD0@compuserve.com> <1049886804.9901.19.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <194120000.1049909641@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <20030410132055.1745749c.skraw@ithnet.com> <524390000.1049993090@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:44:50 -0600 "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > As I am probably one of the victims of these differing opinions, can anyone > > tell me where to get a really-known-to-work aic-driver for 2.4? I am > > experiencing zapping-black events while reading from a SDLT drive (writing > > to it does fine). > > The best way to get to a resolution on aic7xxx issues is to use the > drivers from here: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ Ok, I tried this one on top of 2.4.21-pre6 (can't compile -pre7) and had to find out, that it freezes on X startup. I have never experienced something like that before. Anything I can do/test? There is no oops, just freeze (screen does not turn black, kdm freezes in the middle of the startup, displays window borders but no images). -- Regards, Stephan