looks like this is a problem with the Epiphan Systems VGA frame grabber driver -
mainly because it happens with camorama too.
just to be sure, anyone see a smoking gun?
Carl K
[ 570.742312] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 572.042611] vga2usb: module license 'Epiphan EULA' taints kernel.
[ 572.043303] Symbol usb_register_driver is being used by a non-GPL module,
which will not be allowed in the future
[ 572.043312] Please see the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in
the kernel source tree for more details.
[ 572.044979] Symbol usb_deregister is being used by a non-GPL module, which
will not be allowed in the future
[ 572.044987] Please see the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in
the kernel source tree for more details.
[ 572.050242] Epiphan Systems VGA frame grabber driver version 3.8.8.0000
loaded
[ 580.540798] videodev: "Epiphan VGA2USB #V3U40336" has no release callback.
Please fix your driver for proper sysfs support, see http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/
[ 580.540816] VGA2USB is now attached to vga2usb-192
[ 580.540854] usbcore: registered new interface driver vga2usb
[ 598.915804] camorama: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0
[ 598.915822] Pid: 6426, comm: camorama Tainted: P 2.6.24-5-generic #1
[ 598.915865] [<c016f879>] __alloc_pages+0x2a9/0x390
[ 598.915907] [<c016f997>] __get_free_pages+0x37/0x50
[ 598.915921] [<d079bb81>] allocate_lines_buffer_gp+0xe41/0xe50 [vga2usb]
[ 598.915953] [<d079d53a>] VESA_dynvstep_report+0x4aa/0x7c0 [vga2usb]
[ 598.916000] [<c0146e64>] do_gettimeofday+0x34/0xe0
[ 598.916023] [<d079bf94>] v2ucom_detect_video_mode+0x404/0x9a0 [vga2usb]
[ 598.916053] [<c03196a0>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x730
[ 598.916077] [<c0434218>] video_setup+0x28/0x80
[ 598.916105] [<d07a14b2>] do_vga2usb_v4l_ioctl+0x1b2/0x700 [vga2usb]
[ 598.916134] [<d04f4f20>] video_open+0x0/0x140 [videodev]
[ 598.916149] [<c0434218>] video_setup+0x28/0x80
[ 598.916160] [<c0190e9a>] chrdev_open+0xaa/0x190
[ 598.916179] [<c0434218>] video_setup+0x28/0x80
[ 598.916193] [<c018c304>] __dentry_open+0x174/0x1c0
[ 598.916213] [<c018c405>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x40
[ 598.916226] [<c0190df0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x190
[ 598.916239] [<c018c460>] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60
[ 598.916274] [<c019a458>] do_ioctl+0x78/0x90
[ 598.916293] [<c019a69e>] vfs_ioctl+0x22e/0x2b0
[ 598.916305] [<c018c52e>] do_sys_open+0xbe/0xe0
[ 598.916321] [<c019a776>] sys_ioctl+0x56/0x70
[ 598.916336] [<c01053c2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9
[ 598.916375] =======================
[ 598.916379] Mem-info:
[ 598.916384] DMA per-cpu:
[ 598.916390] CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
[ 598.916397] Normal per-cpu:
[ 598.916403] CPU 0: Hot: hi: 90, btch: 15 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 30,
btch: 7 usd: 0
[ 598.916415] Active:14866 inactive:6173 dirty:73 writeback:1012 unstable:0
[ 598.916419] free:3677 slab:2347 mapped:5018 pagetables:532 bounce:0
[ 598.916430] DMA free:3248kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:1480kB
inactive:1812kB present:16256kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
[ 598.916439] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 230 230 230
[ 598.916453] Normal free:11460kB min:1872kB low:2340kB high:2808kB
active:57984kB inactive:22880kB present:235524kB pages_scanned:0
all_unreclaimable? no
[ 598.916463] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
[ 598.916471] DMA: 258*4kB 138*8kB 40*16kB 9*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB
0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3256kB
[ 598.916495] Normal: 270*4kB 368*8kB 189*16kB 74*32kB 30*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB
0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 11464kB
[ 598.916520] Swap cache: add 55189, delete 51134, find 7511/10495, race 0+0
[ 598.916526] Free swap = 329508kB
[ 598.916531] Total swap = 465844kB
[ 598.916535] Free swap: 329508kB
[ 598.919964] 63440 pages of RAM
[ 598.919969] 0 pages of HIGHMEM
[ 598.919973] 4647 reserved pages
[ 598.919977] 65218 pages shared
[ 598.919981] 4055 pages swap cached
[ 598.919986] 73 pages dirty
[ 598.919990] 1012 pages writeback
[ 598.919994] 5018 pages mapped
[ 598.919997] 2347 pages slab
[ 598.920001] 532 pages pagetables
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