ok, let me summarize the problems with the latest driver release based on the tests i ran in the last few hours and the trouble reports here as well received via e-mails.
i want to do that mainly to prevent any confusion, misleading and misunderstanding what is working and what not, because some people report problems to the forum, other via e-mails and also different people from our team reply in the forum and to the e-mails.
* Ubuntu 11.10 "Release Candidates" with kernel 3.x from the last several days:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/all TBS cards are working - at least during my test in the last hours the final version of Ubuntu 11.10 wasn't released yet, but it's expected the compatibility to remain the same
* tests on random older version of Ubuntu with kernels like version 2.6.31, 2.6.35, etc - no problems and all TBS cards are working
* tests on random Linux distribution like openSUSE, Fedora, ArchLinux, etc with random kernels version older than 3.x - no problems and all TBS cards are working
* latest ArchLinux updated few hours ago with 'pacman -Syu' to kernel version 3.0.6-2:
1) 'scripts/make_kconfig.pl', which is the original script developed by Linux V4L project fails to detect the kernel version in 'get_version' function of the script (mentioned in my previous post including workaround for it)
2) TBS 8910, TBS 8920, TBS 8921, TBS 8922, TBS 6920, TBS 6922, TBS 6925, TBS 6928, TBS 6992, TBS 6220, TBS 6280, TBS 6284, TBS 6984, TBS 5910 (aka 'Qbox'), TBS 5920 (aka 'Qbox II'), TBS 5921 (aka 'Qbox III'), TBS 5922, TBS 5928 (aka 'Qbox S2'), TBS 5980 : are all working fine
3) TBS 6921, TBS 6980, TBS 6981: crash the same way as Meindert reported
* Debian with kernel 3.x: same status as points 2) and 3) about ArchLinux with kernel version 3.0.6-2
so, basically, we reproduced and confirmed the crash Meindert reported, but it's limited to only 3 TBS boards (TBS 6921, TBS 6980 and TBS 6981) and so far confirmed only to happen in Debian and ArchLinux with kernel 3.x, all other almost 20 TBS boards listed in point 2) about ArchLinux with kernel version 3.0.6-2 are fully working including in Debian and ArchLinux with kernel 3.x.
hopefully, after now we have reliable way to reproduce the problem with TBS 6921, TBS 6980 and TBS 6981 in Debian and ArchLinux with kernel 3.x there will be a solution (fix) for it in the next few days.