[cpia] cpia 1.0 bugreport

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000, Gerard Saraber <gerard@saraber.dhs.org> wrote:
> I've been playing with my noname usb webcam, works great with gqcam.. 
> however "fame" (Fast Assembly Mpeg Encoder) deadlocks my box
> consistently..

By deadlock do you mean it completely locks up your machine or the fame
process gets stuck in D?

> I'm running the 2.3.99-pre9 with the cpia 1.0 drivers installed into the
> source tree..
> My system is a dual Celeron 433 (not overclocked) and i'm trying to run
> fame 0.1.3 ( http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~chappeli/fame/ )
> looking through the fame sourcecode it has some defaults set, like grab
> 320x240 at 25 fps, changing those to what gqcam reports 352x288 at
> 15fps.

Try using the cpia driver which comes with 2.3.99-pre9

> i've put the output of /proc/cpia/video0 below, maybe it helps any..
> I'd like to think i'm pretty good at C but I have no idea how to even
> begin to debug this deadlock, not to mention it takes my system 15
> minutes to startup and fix all the filesystem errors :-/
> 
> email me if you need more details..

How long does it take to lockup?

JE