[cpia] Happy Report

sbertin@mindspring.com sbertin@mindspring.com
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:55:15 -0500 (EST)


On 25 Jan, Peter Pregler wrote:
> 
> On 18-Jan-2000 Nick Holloway wrote:
>> I found that if I arranged for cpia_read to call fetch_frame again on
>> >> error (with a nasty goto), then everything continued.  I've added
>> some further debug, and it appears to happen on the first frame.  The
>> camera status has vpStatus==e0, and errorCode==97.
>> 
>> I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to look at next.  Any ideas?
> 
> Can you check if this is still present with Scotts new 0.6? If yes
> please send me the logs for such an unsuccessful run. IIRC the code
> above is not that special.

cpia-0.6.0 does call fetch_frame up to 3 times before giving up.  I had
encountered a similar problem until I got the code right for 2.3.x
kernels, but I'm not seeing it anymore.  I don't really know what caused
it, but I left the retry in just to be safe.

Scott J. Bertin
sbertin@mindspring.com