Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Camera problems

[Andy Fraser <andy FraserPhysics com>]

>>>>> "D" == Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> writes:

    D> Le mercredi 15 décembre 2004 à 20:46 -0800, Andy Fraser a écrit
    D> :
    >>  Yes.  xawtv sort of works.  If I use the mouse to drag the
    >> window around the screen, it eventually freezes.  [...]


andy adrian:~$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.9amf)
/dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCAP(driver="";card="";bus_info="";version=0.0.0;capabilities=0x0 [ ]): Unknown error 515
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type Fon tStruct
v4l: timeout (got SIGALRM), hardware/driver problems?
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(int=0): Interrupted system call
v4l: timeout (got SIGALRM), hardware/driver problems?

    >> Any advice?

    D> It could really be an USB problem, have you tried upgrading the
    D> kernel to a more recent release?

Yes.  I've built my own version of 2.6.9.  I configured it so that the
only modules are the ones for usb, video, and sound.  I've also built
the quickcam and pwc modules from up to date sources.

andy adrian:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.9amf (andy adrian) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-13)) #2 Wed Dec 15 10:42:23 PST 2004
andy adrian:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
uhci_hcd               28880  0
quickcam               73188  0
videodev                7296  1 quickcam
snd_via82xx            21188  2
snd_pcm_oss            48360  0
snd_mixer_oss          17536  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                82376  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21252  1 snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec         67920  1 snd_via82xx
snd_page_alloc          7560  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         6144  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            19748  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd                    44068  10 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi
soundcore               7392  2 snd

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