About the kernel crash in hardware modification - did you try to build kernel without APM support, or build APM as module and don't insert it during the DVB card operation, but just before the shutdown of the machine
It helped for me (at least it reduced frequency of crashes). I haven't tried your card modification but I might be interested to do it. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
