Eugene Smith wrote: > > 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 Sorry for the long delay - things have been a bit hectic. If possible, could you run "dmesg > {somefile}" after starting xawtv and getting the black screen, then email {somefile} to me. I would like to find out what is going wrong... -justin