Re: [Ekiga-list] freeze with Microdia webcam

2008-04-09 Thread David Jacovkis
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,

Re: [Ekiga-list] freeze with Microdia webcam

2008-04-09 Thread D Webb
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 :

Re: [Ekiga-list] freeze with Microdia webcam

2008-04-04 Thread David Jacovkis
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

[Ekiga-list] freeze with Microdia webcam

2008-04-01 Thread David Jacovkis
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