Just as a point of reference are you using the beta drivers from osprey?

At 04:23 PM 8/13/2002, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to get 6 bt848 (i.e. osprey 100) working in one machine. I've
>had success with 1 to 5 cards. Xawtv 3.72 and ``xcaplive'' (our own
>application) work great with 5 cards using 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 using
>bttv 0.7.91.
>
>It also works with 2.4.19 with the v4l2-api patch by Gerd, as well as his
>v4l2-20020723 modules and bttv 0.8.44 running in v4l AND v4l2 modes.
>However, everything goes to heck as soon as I stick in a sixth card. Bttv
>will still print out sane information under dmesg and detect the sixth
>card (it appears under /proc/video/dev). But, xawtv and xcaplive both will
>not work.
>
>I do get one error message with v4l:
>"This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19)
>v4l: timeout (got SIGALRM), hardware/driver problems?
>ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Interrupted system call
>ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=4,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
>ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=1,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
>ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=7,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
>ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=13,size=48x32): Device or resource busy
>ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=15,size=48x32): Device or resource busy"
>
>With v4l2, I get no messages beyond normal startup information. The
>applications in general do not crash, but occasionally they do take down
>the machine.
>
>I know it's a vague and strange problem, but I would appreciate any help
>or comments.
>
>Thank-you,
>
>Felix
>
>
>
>
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