Hi all,

I normally use ubuntu/linux mint at home as my desktop. The problem is recently I am getting way too much of kernel panics and from the panic it seems like its most of the time related to Alsa or something, I am not sure.
So I want to dig deep into it to get the meanings out of this. Anyone know any good reference or book for this purpose?

Thanks in advance.

"Kernel panic" always occurs when the system encounters an impossibility from which it literally cannot continue. (The term, "not syncing," merely means that the system was not in the middle of a disk-I/O operation at the time.) Unfortunately there's not much more that you can do except to debug the situation, but to recognize that it is somehow associated with Alsa is a big clue.

The "kernel panic" itself is simply when the system finally had the good graces to stop wiggling: it gave up the ghost and never twitched again. Whatever caused it, happened earlier. Put on your sleuth hat. If you want us to try to help, post the output of dmesg.