Re: [Ekiga-list] freeze with Microdia webcam
Hi Dee, D Webb wrote: How does top look? Are you using a kernel that actually uses both processors and you see this with hitting 1 while top is running? yes, the 2 processors are active and Ekiga takes over one of them when the camera is connected: #~ top (...) Cpu0 : 5.6%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.3%us, 99.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st (...) 21377 david 20 0 86224 29m 19m R 98 1.5 0:08.80 ekiga (...) I'm using Debian Lenny's latest kernel: #~ uname -rsv Linux 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 17:45:04 UTC 2008 I guess this can be a problem in the uvcvideo driver, but it seems to work ok with other apps... any suggestions on how to further debug this? Thanks for your comments, ^d -- David Jacovkis Free Knowledge Institute http://freeknowledge.eu Wibautstraat 150, 0 1 Vloer 1091GR Amsterdam, Nederland +31208910319 +31628861410 ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
Re: [Ekiga-list] freeze with Microdia webcam
Hi Dee, thanks for your comments. D Webb wrote: I have seen webcams do this, although not specifically with Ekiga. This happened on older computers with newer software. You have quite recent software. Maybe you are running on some older hardware like a Pentium II? I have solved similar problems by adding some swap. Not much is needed either, maybe a few hundred MB. Dee That's most surely not the case, this is a ~2 yo laptop with an Intel Core Duo T7100 processor and 2Gb RAM that hasn't needed to swap in months... David ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
[Ekiga-list] freeze with Microdia webcam
Hi all, I'm running Ekiga 2.0.11 on Debian lenny and it works fine. It worked well with the webcam too, but after an update of the webcam module (uvcvideo), ekiga now freezes if the camera is connected. If I start ekiga while the camera is disconnected, it works without problems. But as soon as I connect it, ekiga's CPU usage jumps to 100% and the GUI stops responding. However, if I unplug the camera things go back to normal after a couple of seconds. I even get to see the last frame captured by the webcam before the jumping ball image replaces it. I use the V4L2 plugin, and Ekiga detects the webcam as a USB 2.0 camera.The new driver seems to work well with other apps like xawtv and luvcview. Thanks, David *System details* ~# uname -r 2.6.24-1-686 ~$ ekiga --version GNOME ekiga 2.0.11 ~$ dmesg|grep uvcvideo uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 Camera (0c45:62c0) ~# lsusb|grep Microdia Bus 007 Device 028: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia ~# lsmod|grep uvcvideo uvcvideo 52104 0 compat_ioctl32 1408 1 uvcvideo videodev 26304 1 uvcvideo v4l1_compat12580 2 uvcvideo,videodev v4l2_common16608 2 uvcvideo,videodev usbcore 132940 7 uvcvideo,usb_storage,usbhid,hci_usb,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
