Michel Verbraak wrote: > I spoke to soon. During the test run all was fine, just one satellite > which locked up the machine yesterday. But running my full test it did > lock the machine. > The following happens just before the lockup: My windows still can get > focus and be moved around but keyboard input is not shown or visible > after about 30 seconds the mouse cursor freezes and the machine is > completely locked up. Only a hard reset or power down will help. > > I have seen this before in the past few days during the testing of a > program i'm writing and debugging which will control the dvb-s card. > Sometimes after a lot of channel changing I got the same result: lock up > of the machine. I first put the blame on my programming but with all > this I think it is the driver. > Hmm.. that sounds like concurrent register access. I have added some locking while doing register access in the mantis tree. Please do check whether the patch fixes the issue Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb