JJ Luza and I found the problem.  A patch to the I2C non-blocking 
changes is attached.  JJ was a tremendous help on this.

-Corey

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Not sure who to blame here ;)
>
>Corey made some i2c changes...
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:36:53 -0800
>From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org
>To: akpm@digeo.com
>Subject: [Bug 4171] New: bttv seems broken here
>
>
>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4171
>
>           Summary: bttv seems broken here
>    Kernel Version: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1
>            Status: NEW
>          Severity: normal
>
>
>Distribution: Debian Sid    
>Hardware Environment: Nforce2 + gforce4 + leadtek winfast TV 2000 (Bt878)  
>Software Environment: kernel module is snd_bt87x (and tuner and bttv), and tv 
>app is xdtv. 
>Problem Description: I can't watch tv with this kernel (it worked with 
>2.6.10). There is no image or sound with xdtv, and I get these errors sent by 
>kernel when I try to access the bttv device : 
> 
>  
>