multiple bt848 cards (i.e. 6) in a box.

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Hello,

I'm trying to get 6 bt848 (i.e. osprey 100) working in one machine. I've
had success with 1 to 5 cards. Xawtv 3.72 and ``xcaplive'' (our own
application) work great with 5 cards using 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 using
bttv 0.7.91.

It also works with 2.4.19 with the v4l2-api patch by Gerd, as well as his
v4l2-20020723 modules and bttv 0.8.44 running in v4l AND v4l2 modes.
However, everything goes to heck as soon as I stick in a sixth card. Bttv
will still print out sane information under dmesg and detect the sixth
card (it appears under /proc/video/dev). But, xawtv and xcaplive both will
not work. 

I do get one error message with v4l:
"This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19)
v4l: timeout (got SIGALRM), hardware/driver problems?
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Interrupted system call
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=4,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=1,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=7,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=13,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=15,size=48x32): Device or resource busy"

With v4l2, I get no messages beyond normal startup information. The
applications in general do not crash, but occasionally they do take down
the machine. 

I know it's a vague and strange problem, but I would appreciate any help
or comments. 

Thank-you,

Felix






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