Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 23:03:42 EST


On Wednesday 06 July 2005 14:11, Jeremy Laine wrote:
> I keep getting OOPS's when using a Bt878 TV card, I am basically unable to watch
> TV for more than about 20-30mn without my system grinding to a halt.

> I have seen suggestions to try without PREEMPT enabled, which I will be doing
> shortly. Any other suggestions to get to the bottom of this problem are most
> welcome!

Try without loading all those proprietary modules (vmmon, vmnet, nvidia).

> Jul 6 10:55:44 sharky kernel: EIP: 0060:[__link_path_walk+1862/3520]
> Tainted: P VLI
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