[mpeg2] Any news on the VIA chipset problem - solved (almost)

[Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.net>]

I fixed my setup and now kfir.o is loading successfully and can be unloaded 
also! (Hooray!) Thanks all for your help figuring it out, I am posting this 
in the hope it may be useful to others.

What I did:

1. Flashed the newest BIOS for my motherboard (GA-7ZM, BIOS Version is now 
FC1). This was done only as precaution and its effects may be unrelated.

2. Upon boot I disabled USB completely in the BIOS setup. RedHat 7 then 
booted and Kudzu was asking me it could not find the VIA USB controller 
anymore and if I like to remove it from my system setup - I told him to do so.

3. loaded kfir.o, no lockups! It just loaded and KFIR initialisation were ok.

Still there is a small issue: I get message that the ADSP loading and later 
initialization failed, from the console it looks like kfir.o retries 
several times then continues. Is this a normal effect or is there something 
wrong here?

But at least the system does not freeze up anymore and I can load and 
unload kfir for as long as I like!

- Frank


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