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From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: BTTV - experimental no_overlay patch
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>,
       Andrew Burgess <aab@cichlid.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> wrote:

> This small patch will allow no_overlay flag to disable BTTV driver to
> report OVERLAY capabilities. It should fix your troubles by enabling
> no_overlay=1 when inserting bttv module.
> 
> This patch is against our CVS tree, but should apply with some hunk on
> 2.6.13-rc4 or 2.6.13-rc5.
> 
> I'll generate a new one at morning, against 2.6.13-rc5 hopefully to
> have it applied at 2.6.13, since it fixes an OOPS.

The CVS line will off cause not apply, and I needed to change
s/static// int no_overlay in bttv-cards.c.

The picture is less distorted by pci activity with no_overlay=1, and it
feels like the stable interface I used with my nvidia+2.4+XF86 before
upgrading to 2.6+radeon+X.org. No OOPS within the first few minutes:).
-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.