Alan Cox wrote: > > > When I try to run a TV application (such as xawtv), my system displays > > about one second of video before completely freezing (no mouse or video > > activity). I then have to reset my system. > > > > I would like to resolve this issue, are there options I need to specify to > > the bttv.o module? Is this card known to work? > > Typically that kind of hang is chipset problems, often the main chipset of > the machine I've had an issue just twice where under high system load (such as when compiling a large program) on a system with an AMD irongate chipset (Athlon 700) and an ATi Mach128 or somesuch (low end roughly current) AGP card, I suddenly get all kinds of video corruption. The first time, when i rebooted one of my dimms was clearly toast. memtest86 reported numerous errors starting from the first bit of it. The second time, everything was fine after a power cycle. soft reboot didn't help. I'm wondering if it might have something to do with my having the ati framebuffer driver loaded, which would be great, since I don't need it and won't include it in my next kernel build. - eric
