Re: PROBLEM: four bttv tuners in one PC crashed

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Duncan Sands <[email protected]> wrote:

>> The bttv driver/chip seems to cause random memory corruption sometimes,
>> processes will just start dying...
> 
> There is a known buffer overflow in the bttv driver (when using
> grabdisplay).  The fix is waiting on an audit of the rest of the
> bttv (and similar) code, since it looks like the same mistake
> occurs in several places.

Can you give me a hint on where exactly to shoot at? I'n still hoping it's
not my VIA board giving me trouble (corrupting the first four bytes of a
semi-random page).
-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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