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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:14:11 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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To: James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10
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James Bruce wrote:
> Well, are there any theories as to why it would work flawlessly, then 
> after a hard lockup (due to what I think is a buggy V4L2 application), 
> that the cards no longer work?  That was with 2.6.10, but after they 
> started failing I tried 2.6.11-rc5 and it doesn't work either.  By the 
> way, I sent the wrong output; what I sent was from 2.6.11-rc5.  The 
> 2.6.10 output is below, and looks similar except for generating a 
> different error message.

Is there any chance that the lockup was related to an external event, 
like a spike on the line to the video? Or any other outside event? It 
seems like a very odd failure mode, but since I'm about to drop in a 
bttv card and digitize about a hundred old tapes, I'd like to know.

Did you try the "card=" suggestion?

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