Hi Dan,

On Sunday 11 May 2008, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Laurent Pinchart
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> >  On Friday 09 May 2008, Dan McGee wrote:
> >  > I'm seeing this same problem on the Eee PC with the integrated webcam.
> >  > Running an strace on the luvcview process shows it coming to a halt on
> >  > the following:
> >  > ioctl(5, VIDIOC_STREAMON, 0x77eede58)   = 0
> >  > ioctl(5, VIDIOC_DQBUF
> >  >
> >  > and stays there.
> >  >
> >  > I attempted to track down when this problem started occurring and why,
> >  > but I couldn't figure out the why. I know I had a setup where
> >  > everything was working with a near-vanilla 2.6.25 kernel and
> >  > linux-uvc-svn version 205. The problem started when I compiled
> >  > 2.6.25.1 and bumped to SVN revision 207. I attempted to drop back down
> >  > to 205 and the problem was still occurring.
>
> Doh! I thought I had been dropping down to 205, futher inspection
> tells me my build script was always pulling the head revision. Answers
> are below.
>
> > >  Looking through the kernel
> > >
> >  > changelog from .25 to .25.1 didn't turn up anything obvious as to what
> >  > changed causing it to fail.
> >
> >  I'm pretty surprised that the upgrade from .25 to .25.1 alone caused the
> >  problem.
> >
> >  Could you please retry with r206 and r207 and compare the results ? r207
> >  introduces a patch to drop incomplete frames. Check the kernel log to
> > make sure the right driver gets loaded (it should print the SVN revision
> > number when loaded).
> >
> >  If reverting to r206 helps, I'll ask you to try a patch to get more
> >  information about the issue.
>
> The 206 -> 207 transition is in fact what broke it. I'd be happy to
> test out any patches you want me to try to help debug this issue.
> Commenting out the changes from that revision in
> linux-uvc/trunk/uvc_v4l2.c and then compiling the current revision
> (209) also solves the problem, as drop_incomplete will never get set.
>
> For this camera, the only output format supported is yuv if that helps
> at all, or is a possible configuration that did not get tested.

Coud you please test the patch attached to 
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linux-uvc-devel/2008-May/003500.html ? 
Instructions are available in the mail.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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