In message <200302040658.h146wHw01035@fearless-vampire-killer.waterside.net>, R
afal Boni writes:
>In message <20030203164542.GA15935@cs.hut.fi>, you write: 
>
>[...timeouts in eap PCI probe...]
>-> Interesting. So sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't? I fail to
>-> see how this would affect X11, though.
>
>My Thinkpad T20 occasionally has similar problems (with the clcs device), 
>which cause any access to the audio device to hang with a slew of timeout
>messages; starting up GNOME or KDE in that state would always end up with
>a wedged machine, at least in any configuration that enabled system/startup
>sounds, as the box would wedge logging logging millions of timeout messages
>to the disk (and probably never retured from the open(2) of the device). 
>Not quite a pure X issue, but close 8-)
>

That's a known issue with that driver.  I believe there's no workaround 
except to omit the driver from the kernel -- that's what I've had to do 
on my T21.

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