What I did was to call settings of the flashplayer and press on the webcam symbol there. The system didn't crash, just this oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000006 5 printing eip: c01875b0 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv video_buf firmware_class ir_common compat_ioctl32 btcx_risc tveeprom videodev v4l2_common nfs vfat fat nfsd export fs lockd sunrpc snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device reiserfs rtc microcode radeon drm intel_agp agpgart snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc sd_m od usb_storage libusual usbhid uhci_hcd usbcore e100 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010292 (2.6.18-rc1 #80) EIP is at sysfs_add_file+0x10/0x76 eax: 00000001 ebx: f9bd6d14 ecx: 00000004 edx: f9bd6d14 esi: f9bde920 edi: 00000001 ebp: dc489eac esp: dc489e94 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 11377, ti=dc489000 task=f21ff6b0 task.ti=dc489000) Stack: f9bde920 f9bde920 00000004 f9bde920 f9bde920 00000000 dc489eb4 c018763c dc489ebc c0220cc3 dc489ec8 f9bc3073 c19b4800 dc489ee4 f9bc35de 00000000 20bd7818 f9bd7880 f9bd7880 ffffffed dc489ef0 c01c3c1b c19b4800 dc489f04 Call Trace: [] sysfs_create_file+0x26/0x28 [] class_device_create_file+0x14/0x1a [] bttv_register_video+0x8c/0x147 [bttv] [] bttv_probe+0x4ab/0x593 [bttv] [] pci_call_probe+0xd/0x10 [] __pci_device_probe+0x31/0x43 [] pci_device_probe+0x21/0x34 [] driver_probe_device+0x47/0x94 [] __driver_attach+0x5e/0x89 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x38/0x5d [] driver_attach+0x14/0x16 [] bus_add_driver+0x5f/0x98 [] driver_register+0x75/0x7a [] __pci_register_driver+0x4f/0x5d [] bttv_init_module+0x9f/0xa1 [bttv] [] sys_init_module+0x95/0x1c5 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [] 0xb7ea781e Code: 01 00 00 00 6a 00 e8 f9 cf f8 ff 89 d8 e8 2f 40 fe ff 5b 8d 65 f4 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 89 c7 56 53 89 d3 83 ec 0c 89 4d f0 <8b> 40 64 89 45 ec 8b 47 1c 05 84 00 00 00 0f b7 72 08 c7 45 e8 EIP: [] sysfs_add_file+0x10/0x76 SS:ESP 0068:dc489e94 Gentoo, Firefox 1.5-r4, xorg 7.0-r1, Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63 plugin, Linux Kernel from Linus GIT: e2b209509ca33743864846aef2e1b2afc21f7915 Config and full dmesg attached