Ken Foskey writes:
> There is a problem with Jaunty and webcams that I have:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libv4l/+bug/359045
>
> Webcams will occasionally work.
> There is also a Kernel bug that crops up because of something with
> cheese:
>
> cheese: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x8004
Wow. Whatever that driver is, it asked for 2^5, or 32 physically
contiguous pages from the kernel. /That/ isn't going to work well.
> Googling led me to this:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.30-rc4
> Which I am not running:
No, but that change is just to suppress the warning; apparently the
uvcvideo driver /should/ retry with a smaller request, so that
*probably* isn't an actual problem.
Regards,
Daniel
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