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From: Claudio Matsuoka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lawrence Glaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Jerry White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Creative Webcam3 & driver probs
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Lawrence Glaister wrote:
>
> > I have a webcamIII running (sort of). I had the best luck with the
> > 2.3.99-pre5 release code (I ran the cam for 3 days straight). I am
currently
> > trying 2.3.99-pre6 with 2 patches located on
http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/.
> > With this code, the pictures seem a little better, but xawtv will not
stay
> > alive overnight, in the morning I have to nuke xawtv as it is
unresponsive
> > to any keyboard/mouse/repaint commands. There is a lot of work occurring
on
> > the ov511 driver and I expect it will take a few weeks to settle down.
Marks
> > web site listed above is very helpful in getting everything set up and
> > running.
> > I do not get the data_error messages when running xawtv. I do get some
of
> > the hmm.. messages, but these seem not to be a problem.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'll be testing the ov511 driver with xawtv tonight or tomorrow morning.
> I've been using gqcam-cpia and w3cam in my tests, could you check if these
> problems happen with gqcam as well?
>
> Best regards,
> claudio
>
Greetings claudio,
I was using gqcam-0.7.5. With the 2.3.99-pre5 kernel things were pretty
stable but the pictures were nothing to write home about. With the pre-6 and
2 patches from marks site, running gqcam took my system down hard with a lot
of disk corruption. fsch had a fielday on reboot (about 20 minutes of
repairs). I have been a little shy to try gqcam again and have reverted my
testing back to the -pre5 kernel. There is a possibility I did something
wrong with the -pre6 kernel and patches, but I didn't see any build
complaints. I also noticed that pre6 disk performance dropped
significantly... ie hdpara -tT /dev/hda showed about 1.5mb/s instead of
12mb/s. It was so bad in fact, that I couldn't play mps's without dropping
segments. The disk problem is not present in -pre5. I did not recompile
gqcam when I switched to -pre6, so if there were any header file changes or
interface changes, this may have caused a problem between the driver and the
app.
regards
Lawrence
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