> I realize that, but 0.8.33 is the latest (AFAIK) that will work with > an "unpatched" (i.e. 2.5 backported features IIRC) kernel. I don't > really want to start building my own kernels and prefer to use the > distro's kernels if I can. bttv 0.8.x never worked with an unpatched 2.4.x kernel. 2.4.19-pre8 will be the first one where you can build bttv 0.8.x without additional patches (if you are happy with v4l, for v4l2 support you still need v4l2 patches). > No ideas why all of a sudden 0.8.33 would start oopsing kernels when > ones prior have had no troubles? Known bugs in 0.8.33. There are some cases where bttv calles stuff from the IRQ handler which must not be called from irq context. Depending on the kernel version this might cause trouble or not. Gerd -- You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please everybody, the end result is one big mess. -- Linus Torvalds, 2002-04-20
