Re: PROBLEM: four bttv tuners in one PC crashed

From: Duncan Sands
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 16:04:33 EST


> 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.

Ciao,

D.
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