Hello Justin, Monday, August 21, 2000, 10:28:01 AM, you wrote: JS> One thing to try is to add triton1=1 to your module options for bttv. JS> This helps a lot with earlier Via chipsets. Does not help. JS> You may also try bttv2 from http://bttv-v4l2.sourceforge.net/ it fixes JS> some races, but I don't think it will help in this case. With bttv2 overlay mode of xawtv does not work - all I see is totally black screen, and my problem exist only in overlay mode. An interesting observation. Computer locks up only if there's a meaningful signal on the input of card: for example, if card is connected to VCR, I can do anything I want with window ( without lockups ) until I press 'play' button. -- Best regards, Eugene mailto:divx@xxxxxxx [Team GADGET] [Team Two Divided By Zero] [Team Hackzone.ru]