From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262395AbUKKWA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:00:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262380AbUKKV6t (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:58:49 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:40325 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262376AbUKKV5Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:57:16 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ? References: <20041107224621.GB5360@magma.epfl.ch> <418EB58A.7080309@kolivas.org> <20041108000229.GC5360@magma.epfl.ch> <418EB8EB.30405@kolivas.org> <20041108003323.GE5360@magma.epfl.ch> <418EBFE5.5080903@kolivas.org> <87is8frjkv.fsf@bytesex.org> <200411092040.iA9KeqEi001410@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Organization: private Linux site, southern Germany Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:56:45 +0100 From: Olaf Titz Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > The symptom is different (the picture has vertical stripes, as if > > pixels get re-ordered in each horizontal line). > > Hmm.. somebody got confused for a 24-bit color (8/8/8) about whether > it takes 24 bits or 32 to store it? No, correct colors but the order of pixels is rearranged, like this: if the correct numbering of pixels were abcdefghijkl the display looks like fdbeacihlkjg The actual pattern is different each time. I suspect that some control data for the display hardware gets corrupted, rather than the video data itself. Olaf