Quoting Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Linux newbie (mostly) running SuSE 7.3 (kernel 2.4.10) on an IBM > Thinkpad T21 with the Ultracam USB camera. I found out the 2.4.10 > kernel didn't include a module for the ultracam, but later versions do, > so I've installed the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's ftp site, and so far > that seems to be working. > > Now, motv appears, but the picture is unusable - I see a rolling or > flickering matrix of images, alternating black and white backgrounds > like a checkerboard, with an apparent image of my head in each.
This seems to be a driver issue, not a v4l. As I see it, the stream decoder is not working properly. Email the author of the driver for help (see http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html ). I can not help you beyond that advice, I never even saw this camera... Dmitri -- Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor. "If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said. - Derek Tearne
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