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

[Duncan Sands]

> I've seen similar hehaviour (machine halts) with a BT848 on a VT82C686
> board while displaying the picture on a radeon card under X.org 6.8.1.

I have the same problem with a Bt878 on a VT82C686 board with a Radeon 7500
card.  The problem predates X.org.

> Heavy HDD IO almost certainly caused soon death (recognizable by heavy
> picture distortion), while an idle system lasted one evening. It did not
> happen with kernel 2.4 and a NVidia card on XF86.

I get hard hangs.

> Now I've upgraded to X.org 6.8.2 and done a first stress-test (copying
> large files from network to local HDD), and I still can post.

Thanks for the hint - I will try updating X.org too.

All the best,

Duncan.
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