Hi,

On Monday 28 July 2003 22:41, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:05:41 +0200
> "Nemosoft Unv." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Nemosoft,
>
> > > (pwc driver dies immediately when IDE disk (or CompactFlash) is
> > > accessed in PIO mode in any 2.4 kernel).
> >
> > Not surprising. PIO is sloooooooooow. It will hog your CPU/PCI bus long
> > enough to give the USB controller a serious constipation problem.
> >
> > > There was a thread a couple of weeks ago on this subject.  Several
> > > experiments were done.  It is not clear to me if there was a
> > > conclusion on what the cause of this problem is (pwc driver, OHCI,
> > > ?).
> >
> > Actually, it might be IDE. Maybe you can play a bit with the PCI
> > latency settings, give the USB controller a higher priority (lower
> > latency) on your PCI bus.
>
> But the interesting thing is that it only happens with the *pwc* driver.
> Several other (non-pwc) webcams were reported not to have the problem.

That's indeed interesting, but still doesn't bring me any further :-(

BTW, have you tried PWC 8.11 yet?

What you could try is using maximum tracing in the pwc driver, see what's 
last in the log before it hangs. Also, using 'ps -l', see where the tool 
that's using the cam hangs (see the WCHAN column). I really need to 
pinpoint the line in the code where it stops.

 - Nemosoft



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