Every two and a half minute, my syslog gets an entry like: Jan 3 06:04:40 htpc kernel: cx88[1]/2: cx8802_timeout Jan 3 06:04:49 htpc vdr: [2369] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 9, tp 578 About 30 seconds before i get this entry, thee's a vdr thread that eats about 25% system cpu time. I'm wondering what it's doing with all that processor power? As I'm using budget cards with softdevice, this has an effect on tv playback.. It only happens when I'm using two cards at the same time. top - 06:10:04 up 21 min, 2 users, load average: 2.18, 2.63, 2.10 Tasks: 96 total, 7 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 50.2% us, 24.3% sy, 0.3% ni, 24.6% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si, 0.0% st Mem: 515672k total, 160352k used, 355320k free, 22520k buffers Swap: 1815304k total, 0k used, 1815304k free, 61232k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2388 root 15 0 242m 29m 4140 R 46.9 5.8 13:28.16 vdr 2369 root 15 0 242m 29m 4140 S 17.6 5.8 1:04.57 vdr 2368 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 3.0 0.0 0:13.46 kdvb-fe-1 -- Torgeir Veimo torgeir@xxxxxxxxx