hi

i installed slackware 9.0 onto my sony fxa32 laptop.. everything is good, except when i start up kde, then i get a few assertion failed's in my syslog, and then it sometimes crashes. here are the assertions:

Apr 10 11:00:15 darkstar kernel: Assertion failed! chan->is_active == sg_active(chan->iobase),via82cxxx_audio.c,via_chan_maybe_start,line=1196
Apr 10 11:01:39 darkstar kernel: Assertion failed! buffer != NULL,via82cxxx_audio.c,via_dsp_write,line=2308

i checked the driver file, but i don't understand what these mean. any help, or any pointers on where to go for help, would be greatly appreciated.

i also get a lot of insmod errors when the system boots up, KMOD apparently tries and fails repeatedly to get my ethernet driver going, but i suspect its unrelated.

thanks a lot
-gong

I dont know man, I tried forever to get the kernel sound driver to work with my via onboard sound...all i could get was CD sound. I just use alsa now, works fine.

About the insmod problem, I think, this is a think, its because on the default kernel it loads up alot of things just because it has to. Peoples systems vary so it loads stuff up for every system possible just about. On the stock kernel I was getting alot of errors like 'something something couldnt be found'. Just recompile the kernel and include stuff only for your pc.

Slack 9.0 introduce a new system for called hotplugging, if it was enabled during the install. The modules that are creating the errors can be added to the end of the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file to prevent them from being loaded. One common module has been with 8139cp and 8139too modules. In this case just add 8139cp to the end of the blacklist file.

Don't know about the VIA sound problem with the kernel drivers. Unless it is two programs competing for the same resource. For instance, KDE uses arts for system sounds etc. But if xmms is run with OSS or eSound configuration, xmms will lock up. Once arts daemon is killed then xmms will start working again. So I set KDE to not start arts when loaded. I still have the problem once in awhile, but I know what to look for. I have some apps that want to use arts only so I do not want to disable completely. If playing mp3 files then the program "noatun" will work with arts OK.

I'm using the drivers from www.viaarena.com in RH9 and everything seems to be fine except that in quake3 audio is very choppy (video is very good though). I was wondering if anyone had any ideas, xmms is fine, when using eSound, it sounds pretty bad when using OSS.

Thanks,
Art

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