Kyle, The audio 'pops' or distortion from the analogue audio via the 3.5mm jack has been fixed in the firmware now. But you could be right that it is the sound driver causing the error. I get this line in the output when I get a kernel oops: [ 749.223007] Modules linked in: speakup_soft(C) speakup(C) snd_bcm2835 snd_pcm snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device snd snd_page_alloc evdev joydev leds_gpio led_class I don't fully understand all that is produced after the oops yet but the sound driver is named in that line. If it is the sound driver then I am stuffed. But a lot of people are using multi-media distros on the Pi. Maybe if I swapped over to using HDMI audio the problem would disappear. But I don't have any means of connecting HDMI audio without a monitor or TV and that's useless to me. Mike On 10/05/2013 13:55, Kyle wrote: > I have read that there is some instability with the Pi sound driver, but > it usually involves distortion, clicks or pops rather than kernel > crashes. Just for laughs, try running something like Sox or another > application that makes a lot of sound. I'm guessing that the sound > driver is crashing the kernel, but I could be wrong, since I haven't yet > purchased one. I would definitely try to rule out that possibility first. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers
