2009/2/10 Ithamar R. Adema <ithamar.adema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > Hate to reply to my own posts, but anyway: > > Ithamar R. Adema wrote: >> >> Fredrik Holmqvist wrote: >>> >>> HDA driver is not enabled by default. IMO it is good enough now to be >>> though. >> >> Hold that idea off for a little while, I'm currently trying to fix a >> definite blocker with enabling the HDA driver on my EeePC. It gets into an >> interrupt storm which prevents the system from doing anything at boot up. >> Symptoms are getting into the blue background (app_server) screen, but never >> seeing Tracker come alive. >> >> Another easy way to spot this problem is to press F12 when booting stalls, >> and type "ints". If one of the interrupts has hda listed _and_ has a crazy >> amount of 'handled' interrupts, you're seeing the same as me :( > > The described problem is fixed in r29172. The weird thing is, that this > should have hit other people too, but obviously it is dependent on _exact_ > hardware configuration. So, I'd like everyone who had it working so far to > verify that this didn't break anything for them. It didn't here, at least, > but both my test boxes here had the symptom. >> >> Anyway, not quite ready for prime-time I'd say. > > If no-one else is having issues anymore, I'd reconsider ;) Ok I will have a go. -- Cheers David