[cpia] cpia 1.0 bugreport

[Gerard Saraber]

Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 
[snip]
> >
> > Exactly what information are you looking for ?
> 
> Well, my question was to Arjan about the bugs he was talking about.

ah ok :-)

> 
> > It's an Abit BP6 mainboard,
> > usb controller: 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4
> > USB (rev 01)
> >
> > umm lets see, as I said i'm running linux kernel 2.3.99-pre9 with the
> > cpia 1.0 drivers (from sourceforge) copied into the kernel tree..
> > I have an hpt366 UDMA/ATA66 ide controller onboard in use, i suppose its
> > possible that the deadlock occurs when it's reading from the video4linux
> > device and writing to disk at the same time ?
> 
> I doubt it. Usually 2 devices don't interfere like to cause a deadlock.
> Bad hardware could cause problems.
> 
> > let me know if there is anything you want me to try or any /proc output
> > you want to look at...
> > I'll try Arjans patch next (bedankt!) and see if it does anything
> > different...
> 
> His patch would fix problems exitting. Not while the device was open.
> Did you try the other UHCI driver? (I forget which one you used)

great idea, gonna try that ..

I couldn't get Arjans patch to apply, maybe its a diff between different
versions than I have ?

> 
> Also, I think I asked already, but why didn't you use the cpia driver
> that came with 2.3.99-pre9?
> 
> JE
because that's an older version and deadlocks even when using gqcam ..

Thanks,
Gerard Saraber
gerard@saraber.dhs.org
http://www.rarcoa.com