Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Patch for v4l2 - removing multiple buffers, please review and test.

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeu 04/11/2004 à 19:54, Nicola Orru' a écrit :

> DS> That's the purpose of the test actually because many drivers are not
> DS> stress-tested and the druid is stress-testing them :)
> 
> Just checked, it freezes!
> 

Then it must be fixed.

> 
> 
> DS> Le jeudi 04 novembre 2004 à 01:24 +0100, Heikki Henriksen a écrit :
> DS> > Hello guys and gals.
> DS> > 
> DS> > I had some problems getting my really cheap sn9c102-based webcam to
> DS> > function with the otherwise fine work of Nicola Orru' on pwlib's
> DS> > V4L2-plugin.
> DS> > 
> DS> > After some debugging and a (very short) time trying to figure out the
> DS> > V4L2-API, I found that my cheap camera didn't handle mmap with multiple
> DS> > buffers. I dug around a bit and discovered that the normal V4L-plugin
> DS> > only use one buffer for mmap, so I decided to try this for V4L2 as well.
> 
> I didn't touch that parameter, it came from the original V4L2 author.
> 

Would you advice to apply that patch? Can you try it?

Thanks

> DS> > 
> DS> > I cleaned it up a bit, removed all references to multiple buffers and it
> DS> > As far as I can tell, 2 things still needs to be done with the
> DS> > V4L2-plugin: 
> DS> > - better device-detection, which Nicola is working on
> 
> Definitely, I should be able to do that this weekend.
> 
> DS> > - "Test Settings" in the druid hangs indefinitely. Someone(tm) needs to
> DS> > look into which functions that needs.
> 
> (it is still frozen)
> 
> DS> > 
> DS> > Now I need to get back to my Master's thesis on the semantic web :)
> 
> Good luck!
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