[linux-usb-devel] Re: pwc+pwcx is not illegal

2004-08-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Sunday 29 August 2004 16:00, Alan Cox wrote: > On Gwe, 2004-08-27 at 20:29, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So stop whining about it. The driver got removed because the author > > asked for it. > > Please put it back, minus the hooks so the rest of the world can use it. No, don't! There is on

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

2004-08-25 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Wednesday 25 August 2004 01:04, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:58:24AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote: > If you want to send me a patch to tell me to rip the whole driver out, > fine I will, no problems, I completly understand. I don't think you do. > But re

[linux-usb-devel] Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

2004-08-24 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Tuesday 24 August 2004 00:10, you wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:05:36AM -0700, Fr?d?ric Detienne wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 21:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Fr?d?ric Detienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I suppose this is not the only place where we > > > > prepare AP

[linux-usb-devel] Re: pwc-uncompress.h

2004-06-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On Sunday 27 June 2004 00:27, you wrote: > For some reason, gcc-2.95.4 dies horridly on those asmlinkage > declarations. > > I was unable to work out _why_ those functions have asmlinkage, as there > seem to be no instances of them - nobody calls > pwc_register_decompressor(). What's up with that?

[linux-usb-devel] Re: pwc-if.c duplicate entry

2004-06-25 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Thursday 24 June 2004 15:40, you wrote: > Hi, > > there seem to be duplicate entries for 0x8116 in the file, > (if the "else if" were implemented with a switch statement > the compiler would have warned) > > > > + else if (vendor_id == 0x06be) { > + switch(product_id) { >

[linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] pwc-if: use correct function type, removes warnings

2004-01-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Tuesday 13 January 2004 18:41, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:42:05PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > -static int pwc_video_release(struct video_device *vfd) > > +static void pwc_video_release(struct video_device *vfd) > > { > > Trace(TRACE_OPEN, "pwc_video_release() cal

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.11

2003-07-28 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On Monday 28 July 2003 22:41, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:05:41 +0200 > "Nemosoft Unv." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Nemosoft, > > > > (pwc driver dies immediately when IDE disk (or CompactFlash) is > > > acc

Re: [linux-usb-devel] pwc stops if the system is loaded

2003-07-28 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Monday 28 July 2003 08:03, Detlef Schmicker \(Siebertz Electronic GmbH\) wrote: > Hello Oliver, > > I have no simple way to reproduce it at the moment, but I observed both: > Hang of the webcam (one observation after 3 days of working) > Hang of the kernel (one observation after 2 days

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.11

2003-07-28 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On Monday 28 July 2003 03:18, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:08:40 +0200 > "Nemosoft Unv." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Nemosoft, > > > Attached are two patches, one for 2.4.21 and 2.5.75 for the PWC driver. > > I assume the 2.

[linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.11

2003-07-27 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
ux-2.4.21/drivers/usb/pwc-ctrl.c --- linux-2.4.21-org/drivers/usb/pwc-ctrl.c Tue Jul 1 21:20:36 2003 +++ linux-2.4.21/drivers/usb/pwc-ctrl.c Sun Jul 27 01:49:10 2003 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* Driver for Philips webcam Functions that send various control messages to the webcam, including video modes

Re: [linux-usb-devel] pwc stops if the system is loaded

2003-07-16 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Tuesday 15 July 2003 10:43, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Particularly after taking a quick glance at the code > > and not seeing anything that much cared about nonzero > > fault codes when the urbs are returned. > > Hi nemosoft, > > looking at the 2.5 code error handling seems fishy: > >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] pwc stops if the system is loaded

2003-07-09 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Friday 04 July 2003 16:02, Detlef Schmicker \(Siebertz Electronic GmbH\) wrote: > Hoi Rob, > > yes you are right. I use a hard disk in PIO mode. I will use a flash disk > also. > > I can reproduce the problem the same way as you can. > > I think it is probably in the USB layer, but I am

[linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.10 for 2.4.20 and 2.5.51

2002-12-15 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
break; + break; + case 0x08b1: + Info("Logitech QuickCam for Notebook Pro USB webcam detected.\n"); + name = "Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro"; + type_id = 740; /* ?? unknown sensor */ + break; + case 0x08b2: + Info("Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro USB webcam det

[linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.9

2002-11-26 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
arg, &probe, sizeof(probe))) - ret = -EFAULT; + strcpy(probe->name, pdev->vdev->name); + probe->type = pdev->type; break; } diff -ur media.org/pwc-if.c media/pwc-if.c --- media.org/pwc-if.c Tue Nov 26 23:49:43 2002 +++ media/pwc-if.c Wed Nov 27 00:51:58 2002 @@ -1,

[linux-usb-devel] Re: checker report on pwc-if.c

2002-07-11 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On Friday 12 July 2002 00:18, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Hi, > > this is a real one. Fix included. Thanks for the fix... indeed, small oversight :( But, I'm wondering: won't lock_kernel() interfere with the call to video_unregister_device(pdev->vdev); and schedule()? - Nemosoft --

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Odd hang around usb_unlink_urb on OHCI/2.5.24

2002-07-06 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Saturday 06 July 2002 04:58, David Brownell wrote: > Hmm, that's only a semi-polite failure mode. I call it a bloody nuisance since I have to reboot each time :) > The OHCI driver has had some longstanding issues with unlinking > URBs and endpoints, it's likely that some of the fixes

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Oops in 2.5.24-dj2

2002-07-03 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 16:01, Duncan Sands wrote: > On Tuesday 02 Jul 2002 8:34 am, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:17:19PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: > > > PS: The taintedness and the "System.map says 2.5.24, pwcx-i386 says > > > 2.4.18" is coming from the pwcx-i386 binary module

[linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.7 for 2.5.20

2002-06-09 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
:56 2002 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* Driver for Philips webcam Functions that send various control messages to the webcam, including video modes. - (C) 1999-2001 Nemosoft Unv. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + (C) 1999-2002 Nemosoft Unv. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This program is free software; you can redistribute it a

[linux-usb-devel] Re: pwc webcam 2.5.18 patch

2002-06-08 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello all, On Monday 03 June 2002 00:17, Martin Devera wrote: > Hi, > thanks to suggestions from David Brownell I modified > pwc driver to compile and work under 2.5.18. > Also it fixes mas ISO transfer sizes which could > potentionaly affect older kernels too. > With these changes it works - I'l

Re: [linux-usb-devel] video/2.5.15 [not: UHCI dead on 2.5.15?]

2002-05-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On Monday 13 May 2002 11:38, David Brownell wrote: > > I tried to jump to kernel 2.5.15 today, but with not much success... > > After the usual boot I load the USB modules. The attached webcams are > > detected, but when I try to get a picture, the program hangs. I can ^C > > it, but a second atte

[linux-usb-devel] UHCI dead on 2.5.15?

2002-05-12 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, I tried to jump to kernel 2.5.15 today, but with not much success... After the usual boot I load the USB modules. The attached webcams are detected, but when I try to get a picture, the program hangs. I can ^C it, but a second attempt causes a 'D' process that's hanging in "down_i"

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: PWC 8.6 for 2.5 series

2002-03-28 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 19:46, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:33:20PM +0100, Nemosoft Unv. wrote: > > Then why does nobody do it? It's all I'm asking > > It's a pain in the butt at times, and much faster to fix something that > you just bro

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: PWC 8.6 for 2.5 series

2002-03-27 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 05:46, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:53:27AM -0800, Petko Manolov wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > >made the change and go complain to them. However, 99% of the time > > >you are usually very glad that the change was made, and you should > > >not mind that ot

[linux-usb-devel] Re: PWC 8.6 for 2.5 series

2002-03-26 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 02:11, you wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:05:40AM +0100, Nemosoft Unv. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Well, I finally manages to get my 2.5. kernel up and running and test > > the latest changes to my driver. Fortunately, things worked out of

[linux-usb-devel] PWC 8.6 for 2.5 series

2002-03-25 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Functions that send various control messages to the webcam, including video modes. - (C) 1999-2001 Nemosoft Unv. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + (C) 1999-2002 Nemosoft Unv. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: usbdevfs to device node mapping

2002-03-19 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Tuesday 19 March 2002 01:30, David Brownell wrote: > USB standardizes two models for this kind of thing: > > - "compound device" such as "hub and keyboard", which is > one physical device that appears as two USB device, each > normally having one interface (that's not re

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: usbdevfs to device node mapping

2002-03-19 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On Tuesday 19 March 2002 07:31, Greg KH wrote: > > Ah, I didn't know that. Unfortunately, not all USB drivers have an > > /proc/ interface like CPiA. > > Ok, sorry for jumping in late here, but no ioctl(). I hate the current > usbfs ioctl interface and do not want to see that spread a

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: usbdevfs to device node mapping

2002-03-18 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Monday 18 March 2002 04:12, David Brownell wrote: > > thus no ioctl(). > > There's this thing called JNI, which solves that. If they're doing stuff > like memory mapping the video memory, it's being used already. > If not, no big deal since the code is Linux-specific in the first place

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: usbdevfs to device node mapping

2002-03-18 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On Monday 18 March 2002 12:48, Sebastian Linz wrote: > > > Short version of the story: some simple kernel updates will solve your > > particular issue, but someone has to write and interface and submit > > patches for the webcams you're using. One model to follow (in the > > kernel) is how

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: usbdevfs to device node mapping

2002-03-17 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On Sunday 17 March 2002 22:49, David Brownell wrote: > > Unfortunately, your problem cannot be solved right now. There is > > currently no way to register the device info with a USB device, so that > > it appears somewhere in /proc/bus/usb. There are all sorts of problems > > with this

[linux-usb-devel] Re: usbdevfs to device node mapping

2002-03-17 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On Sunday 17 March 2002 15:05, you wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on my diploma thesis, writing a java based webcam picture > grabber. Helpfully I found your website. Thanks for your advices. > Carefully I read your FAQs. But I didn't get the right answer. So I > would like to tell you w

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] PWC 8.6

2002-03-15 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Friday 15 March 2002 23:45, Mark McClelland wrote: > Nemosoft Unv. wrote: > >You mean the introduction of V4L2? Well, if that happens I will > > *probably* abandon the 2.4 driver; more or less what I did with the 2.2 > > series. But the driver is complete enoug

[linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] PWC 8.6

2002-03-15 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On Friday 15 March 2002 18:19, Greg KH wrote: > > You know, I would really apreciate it if people would send me the > > necessary patches as well (the E-mail address is in every pwc file), > Ah, but this is one of the _advantages_ of open source, other people > fixing things in your code

[linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.6

2002-03-10 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
002/03/10 01:27:56 1.34 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* Driver for Philips webcam Functions that send various control messages to the webcam, including video modes. - (C) 1999-2001 Nemosoft Unv. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + (C) 1999-2002 Nemosoft Unv. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This program is free software; yo

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] Add OV511 decompressor

2002-02-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On Friday 22 February 2002 23:24, Mark McClelland wrote: > Randy.Dunlap wrote: > >There was a lot of discussion about 1.5 years back that most of > >the video decompression and format conversion stuff should be > >done in userspace, and that maybe a video conversion library > >should b

[linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] PWC 8.5

2002-01-02 Thread Nemosoft Unv .
Greetings, Well, time for another update of the Philips (and others) webcam driver. This patch will upgrade the PWC driver to version 8.5, and includes the following changes: * Adding IDs for Creative Labs Webcam 5 * Adding IDs for SOTEC CMS-001 webcam * Solving possible hang in VIDIOCSYNC whe

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2 cam-devices at the same time - snd. try....

2001-12-03 Thread Nemosoft Unv .
Hi, On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:19, you wrote: > Quoting Victoria W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I try to use two cam-sevices (pwc oder others) at the same time, > > only one of them is working. > > Each time, I try to access the other one, I get: > > > > hub.c: already running port 1 disable

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Alert: Red Hat 7.2 has buggy 2.4.9 USB-UHCI driver.

2001-11-03 Thread Nemosoft Unv .
Hello, On Saturday 03 November 2001 23:58, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > From: "Nemosoft Unv." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [linux-usb-devel] Alert: Red Hat 7.2 has buggy 2.4.9 USB-UHCI > > driver. Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 23:47:59

[linux-usb-devel] Alert: Red Hat 7.2 has buggy 2.4.9 USB-UHCI driver.

2001-11-03 Thread Nemosoft Unv .
Hello, Today I got the first bug report from a user that had upgraded to Red Hat 7.2. The kenel shipped with RH 7.2 is 2.4.9, which unfortunately contains the buggy usb-uhci driver (you know: solid hang when using USB and isoc devices like webcams or speakers). So expect a lot of 'I upgraded

Re: [linux-usb-devel] OHCI/PCVC675K webcam failure (lots of debugging info)

2001-10-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv .
Greetings, On Tuesday 30 October 2001 00:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hi David, Nemosoft, > > First of all thanks for your answers. I hope we can get to the bottom of > this weirdness! > > I applied the patch to pwc-if.c and enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB. I hope the > resulting messages file means m

Re: [linux-usb-devel] OHCI/PCVC675K webcam failure (lots of debugging info)

2001-10-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv .
On Monday 29 October 2001 21:33, David Brownell > > I'm having problems with my Philips webcam and an OHCI controller > > (buffer underflow). The machine freezes rock-solid if I then try to > > kill -9 the application which is using the usb/webcam. No OOPS, > > nothing. > > How about when you unpl

[linux-usb-devel] [PATH] PWC 8.3

2001-10-14 Thread Nemosoft Unv .
ot;); MODULE_PARM(mbufs, "i"); @@ -1822,7 +1849,8 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(power_save, "Turn power save feature in camera on or off"); MODULE_PARM(compression, "i"); MODULE_PARM_DESC(compression, "Preferred compression quality. Range 0 (uncompressed) to 3 (hig

[linux-usb-devel] RE: [PATCH -R] Re: 2.4.10 is toxic to my system when I use my US

2001-09-26 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 26-Sep-01 Jan Harkes wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:43:54AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: >> I have been doing some tests to determine where the problems is. The [snip] > It hit me as well and I found the culprit, the crash happens in > usb-uhci.c:process_iso, where the followin

[linux-usb-devel] ISO bug in usb-uhci, 2.4.10

2001-09-26 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, I (and several others) have stumbled across a bug in the usb-uhci driver, introduced in 2.4.10. It seems to center around ISO transfers (so a lot of users of my PWC driver encounter it). It causes a rather nasty hang, but one user managed to get me a good trace, which I´m printing belo

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Phillips Webcam 680

2001-09-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On 22-Sep-01 Georg Acher wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:00:33PM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote: >> Well, the fact that the usb-uhci module isn?t locked while it is in use, >> is >> bad and you cannot be blamed for that. I?m CC:ing this to the USB >> development

[linux-usb-devel] rvmalloc and friends (was: bigmem machines)

2001-09-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, After positive feedback of all 3 people who reported problems with the PWC driver and machines with >= 1 GB after upgrading their driver to version 8.2, I can safely assume the issue has been resolved. In the end, it turned out to be a simple change from using vmalloc_32() instead of v

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Phillips Webcam 680

2001-09-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
you cannot be blamed for that. I´m CC:ing this to the USB development list, so this issue can be fixed. > Thanks > > Scott Harrison - Nemosoft > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:39:51AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 20-May-01 Scott Harrison wrote: >>

[linux-usb-devel] RE: [PATCH] Samsung Anycam MPC-C10 support

2001-09-16 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 16-Sep-01 Roger So wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, thanks for writing the pwc driver! The source is very > readable; otherwise I wouldn't be writing this email. ;) > > I've figured out how to make pwc support the Samsung Anycam MPC-C10 > webcam; basically it's the same as a Philips 67

[linux-usb-devel] [patch] PWC 8.2

2001-09-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, This is a patch against 2.4.9 that will bring the PWC driver up to version 8.2. It has the following changes: * Making module more silent when trace = 0 * Adding QuickCam 3000 Pro IDs * Chrominance control for the Vesta cameras * Hopefully fixed problems on machines with BIGMEM and >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 13-Sep-01 Alan Cox wrote: >> I think weve hit a bug with HIMEM and vmalloc(); after I turned on >> HIGHMEM >> I get similar results: every second frame or so is either bright pink, >> dark >> green, but nothing normal. Memory allocation looks normal from debugging. >> > > Just a t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, I think we´ve hit a bug with HIMEM and vmalloc(); after I turned on HIGHMEM I get similar results: every second frame or so is either bright pink, dark green, but nothing normal. Memory allocation looks normal from debugging. - Nemosoft On 12-Sep-01 Oliver Neukum wrote: >> The secon

[linux-usb-devel] RE: PCVC680K and PCVC690K, memory > 1 GByte

2001-09-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 13-Sep-01 Hartmut S. Loos wrote: > > Hi, > > we have successfully installed and used your Philips USB WebCam drivers > including the PWCX 8.1 decrompressor modul with RedHat 7.1 and an > up-to-date > stock kernel (2.4.[789]) running on a dual processor machine with two > Pentium > III/80

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 12-Sep-01 Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Maybe by using "mem=960M" as a kernel boot parameter (see > linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt). I´ll ask him. >> which to me suggests the second frame buffer is allocated, but somehow in >> memory which isn´t accessible (every other frame is bright

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 12-Sep-01 Oliver Neukum wrote: >> The second bug report said the module works fine when the person limits >> his >> memory to 960 MB (how, I dont know). With full memory, he gets artefacts > > With a 'mem=' kernel command line I presume. > >> which to me suggests the second frame

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 11-Sep-01 Alan Cox wrote: >> This is the second message of this kind that I received. Seems like >> vmalloc() does weird things on machines with 1GB or more of physical RAM. > > It shouldnt do so. The amount of vmalloc memory is partly dependant on the > amount of RAM because you n

[linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-11 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, This is the second message of this kind that I received. Seems like vmalloc() does weird things on machines with 1GB or more of physical RAM. [I know this isn4t strictly USB related, but others may be affected as well; besides, lkml is probably too busy] I4m using vmalloc() for the

[linux-usb-devel] RE: Kenrel 2.4.9

2001-09-11 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 06-Sep-01 Thomas Lussnig wrote: > Hi, > im using you module since lng time. Now upgrade to 1GB Memory. > Als long as i Limit the memory to 960MB all is working fine. > But at that Moment i stop this Limit and aktivate BIG_MEM 4GB > support in the Kernel the webcam isn't working fine. Evry

RE: [linux-usb-devel] CPiA and Brightness/Contrast

2001-06-24 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 24-Jun-01 Sönke Ruempler wrote: > Hi, > > because of my excessive testing of linux + 2 usb terracams i report all > bugs/expiriences to you. So the next thing is, that the webcam produces > silly pictures in some environments: > > if its a little bit dark in the room, there is an almost

[linux-usb-devel] [patch] PWC driver 8.0

2001-06-19 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, Attached is a patch that fixes a number of issues with the current PWC webcam driver as it is included in kernel 2.4.5. The most important feature is that it restores the YUV420P palette so that some tools can at least work with this. Also, I modified the wait-queue mechanism a bit, it

RE: [linux-usb-devel] Audio Usb drivers not working with Philips

2001-06-03 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 01-Jun-01 Jean Philippe AJIRENT wrote: > Hi, > > For some months, I'm trying to get my Philips Vesta Pro Webcam working > with my Linux box. > Actually, since I got the drivers from Nemosoft, the video part is > functional, but the integrated microphone is not. > > Is the Audio module re

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conver

2001-05-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On 29-May-01 Jeroen Vreeken wrote: > On 2001.05.30 11:47:23 +0200 Brad Hards wrote: >> Without knowing the details, I risk making a fool of myself, but would it >> >> be possible to use a similar approach to gpm? So we use a named pipe or >> similar in user space, generated by vfm (video format

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conver

2001-05-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On 28-May-01 Dmitri wrote: > Quoting Nemosoft Unv. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not really; the common interface is split into two parts - one that > extracts the data from the physical device, and another that processes > that data to make it into whatever you requested. The inter

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conver

2001-05-28 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
On 28-May-01 Oliver Neukum wrote: >> The "clean" solution is known: to restrict the driver to actually >> getting the data from the camera and then dumping it into the user >> space, labelled with some camera-specific GUID. Then the library >> in userspace can open the stream, match the GUID to l

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conver

2001-05-27 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Please disregard last mail; I hit the send button before finishing the message, and was sent to this list unneccesary. - Nemosoft - Try SorceryNet! One of the best IRC-networks around! irc.sorcery.net:9000 URL: neve

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conver

2001-05-27 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On 26-May-01 Alan Cox wrote: >> While I agree that in-kernel format conversion code (between standard V4L >> formats) should be removed *eventually*, tearing it out in the middle of >> a >> stable kernel series without warning does a great disservice to many >> users. This > > I didnt "te

[linux-usb-devel] FW: ... some troubles with the 7.0 driver ...

2001-05-27 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, Here´s another one with short frame buffers on an OHCI controller... Looks like we have a bug on our hand. Seems to be the same problem as Norbert Preinings´. - Nemosoft -FW: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:07:54 +0200 (MEST) From: Riccardo Sibilia <[EMAIL PR

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: buffer underruns with pwc/ohci

2001-05-27 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On 26-May-01 Roman Weissgaerber wrote: >> On 25-May-01 Norbert Preining wrote: >> >> There is something else you can do: in pwc_isoc_handler, there is a >> >> large >> >> piece of code inside ?if (fst == 0) { ... }?, but there is no ?else? >> >> branch. >> >> Try and print this fst-status

[linux-usb-devel] Re: buffer underruns with pwc/ohci

2001-05-25 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
collects the transfered ISO packets into a single, contiguous buffer. On 25-May-01 Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fre, 25 Mai 2001, Nemosoft Unv. wrote: >> something like ?detect short packet? enabled, or disabled (not sure if it >> affects ISOC transfers)? > > Not that

RE: [linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conver

2001-05-25 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 25-May-01 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Sorry this is a slippery slope argument and it won't wash. > > The kernel is intended as the arbiter between userspace and hardware, > and userspace and userspace. Format conversion has nothing to do with > arbitration. > > Format conversion in k

[linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conversion

2001-05-25 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, Coalescing two messages in one: On 25-May-01 Alan Cox wrote: > Nope. Its been policy since 2.0. Its both v4l1 and v4l2 policy. In fact its > fairly nonsensical to handle any format conversions in kernel unless the > device outputs a unique format of its own. Oh come on. 2.0 has been

[linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conversion

2001-05-25 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 25-May-01 Erik Mouw wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:48:12AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote: >> That´s what you get for ripping out the guts of a driver. Have a nice >> day. > > The format conversion shouldn't be there in the first place. Format >

RE: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] se401 0.21

2001-04-30 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On 28-Apr-01 Jeroen Vreeken wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a patch for the se401 driver version 0.21 against 2.4.4pre7, but > it applies fine against 2.4.4 > Due to lack of respons to my mail from yesterday concearning the > VID_HARDWARE number I claimed the next free number on 2.4.4 which

RE: [linux-usb-devel] uhci.c updates in 2.4.4-pre7

2001-04-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 26-Apr-01 Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > I managed to get almost all of my uhci.c updates into 2.4.4-pre7. > > This includes the bulk queuing fixes, the pci consistent support, the > completion list to fix the deadlocks and various other bug fixes. > > If you've had any problems with u

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] Philips USB webcam source code

2001-04-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 26-Apr-01 Mark McClelland wrote: > "Nemosoft Unv." wrote: > >> No problem... But Im still deciding whats the best strategy. Ive tried >> two approaches: >> >> * distribute a .o file with the code which requires a small patch to the >> Ma

RE: [linux-usb-devel] Trying to compile usb-pwc without patching

2001-04-29 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On 27-Apr-01 Juan Antonio Martinez wrote: > I'm trying to get usb_pwc-7.0 Phillip usb WebCam drivers compiled as a > separate module, without patching the kernel. So I readed the HOWTO, Which HOWTO? > created a Makefile (attached in this mail)... and go. Evidently crashes, > and gives

[linux-usb-devel] [patch] Philips USB webcam driver

2001-04-26 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, This is the patch that should bring the Philips webcam driver into the Linux kernel (all platforms). It´s against 2.4.3, I haven´t had time to install an -ac kernel and patch against that. Any differences should be trivial, though. It´s mostly new files and patching Makefile and Confi

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] Philips USB webcam source code

2001-04-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 22-Apr-01 Adam J. Richter wrote: > So far, I have been unable to reach http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/, > and I see a name of the person to contact about the driver, That would be me :-) Anyway, can you send me a traceroute (private, not on the list)? A few months ago some router

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] Philips USB webcam source code

2001-04-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 22-Apr-01 Alan Cox wrote: >> Question is... do you want it? Considering it still has a binary part, >> though completely optional... The driver is certainly production ready, >> its > > The binary part would simply get forgotten. Leave a comment so that people > know where to get t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] Philips USB webcam source code

2001-04-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 22-Apr-01 Jeroen Vreeken wrote: > On 2001.04.22 20:57:42 +0200 Alan Cox wrote: >> > I have no problems with keeping it as an add-on, like Jeroen Vreekens >> SE401 >> > driver, or other such drivers. >> >> Good, solid, drivers belong in the kernel in general. > > I am still looking into s

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] Philips USB webcam source code

2001-04-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 22-Apr-01 Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001, Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Great, would be possible to send a clean patch to Alan for inclusion >> in stock kernel ? > > If you want it into the stock kernel, that would go through me. Question is...

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] Philips USB webcam source code

2001-04-22 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On 22-Apr-01 Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Sunday, 22. April 2001 02:55, you wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Today I released the first version of a Philips webcam driver that >> contains >> enough source code to get a working webcam on all Linux platforms that >> support USB. Release 7.0 contains

[linux-usb-devel] [announce] Philips USB webcam source code

2001-04-21 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, Today I released the first version of a Philips webcam driver that contains enough source code to get a working webcam on all Linux platforms that support USB. Release 7.0 contains only a small binary part which is completely optional (with some degradation in features, yes). However,

Re: [linux-usb-devel] writing camera driver

2001-04-11 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hello, On 11-Apr-01 Chris Cheney wrote: > Joerg, > > It is the Vista Imaging ViCAM (3Com Homeconnect). Funny, your name shows up in my archive about this same camera, about a year ago. John Willis did some prelimenary work on a driver, but we never could quite figure out how the color informati

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Programming Guide for USB drivers

2001-04-07 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 07-Apr-01 David Brownell wrote: >> I was browsing through the USB Programming Guide at usb.cs.tum.edu, and I >> was wondering about one thing... I came across usb_control_msg(), and I >> recall reading on linux-usb-devel@ that it is not safe to call this >> function >> from interrup

[linux-usb-devel] Programming Guide for USB drivers

2001-04-07 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, I was browsing through the USB Programming Guide at usb.cs.tum.edu, and I was wondering about one thing... I came across usb_control_msg(), and I recall reading on linux-usb-devel@ that it is not safe to call this function from interrupt context (e.g. probe() and handler functions), because i