Hi again!
One additional bit of information popped up today.
http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/problems.html#overlay
The tvtime faq proposes using the v4l driver for Xorg, and I
discovered that although 'Load "v4l"' was present in my xorg.conf, I
didn't have the xserver-xorg-video-v4l installed (probably due to a
misguided attempt to thin out the list of packages on my system).
After installing the package and restarting the Xorg server, I tried
to reproduce the bug (as described in the initial post) and it didn't
work (xawtv was using the v4l interface).
There was no way for you to know that I wasn't using the v4l module,
as I didn't include the Xorg.0.log in my initial post.
So it appears the oopses and lockups only happen when the v4l
xserver module is not used.
And I can finally use xawtv again... :-)
HTH
Friedel
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Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
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