Hi Mauro, First of all, many thanks for taking the time to reply to my email!
> We don't have any other OOPS reported for BTTV cards. The reply from Bodo Eggert seems to indicate otherwise.. Here is some extra information as requested: > 1) desactivate any overclocking at motherboard/video board; I do not use any kind of overclocking, never have done and never will! > 2) use a standard vanilla kernel (not a distro kernel, that may have > some experimental patches applied; The crashes I reported were on a vanilla 2.6.12 kernel, compiled straight from the tarball on kernel.org. > 3) use a minimum ammount of cards leaving only neccessary cards at MB. > For these, it is good to clean its contacts; The only extension cards I use are: - 1 nVidia GeForce 6800 video adapter - 1 Pinacle PCTV card - 1 3Com 3c905C ethernet card - 1 SB Live! 1024 card I regularly vacuum-clean my tower and have checked the contacts on the extension cards on several occasions. For tests, I am willing to remove the NIC + soundcard if you think that will help (will try over the weekend), but in the long run I don't consider any of the above cards to be "exotic" or optional.. > 4) Test it again. Will do, as stated above. On a sidenote, so far I have been unable to reproduce the problem when PREEMPT is disactivated (I stressed my box by compiling a kernel while watching TV). Cheers, Jeremy -- http://www.jerryweb.org/ : JerryWeb.org http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ : Sailcut CAD http://opensource.polytechnique.org/ : Polytechnique.org Free Software - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
