[cpia] Re: cpia digest, Vol 1 #34 - 16 msgs
Thunder
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Wed, 01 Mar 2000 05:23:41 -0600
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> 1. Device or resource busy (jylam)
> 2. Oups (jylam)
> 3. mhh, you have to kill me (jylam)
> 4. RE: Device or resource busy (Peter Pregler)
> 5. adminsitrativa - archive problems (Peter Pregler)
> 6. Re: cpia-0.7.2 (Tore Halset)
> 7. Driver for Creative WebCAM III (root@cummings.uol.com.br)
> 8. Re: Driver for Creative WebCAM III (Nicolas Roussel)
> 9. Re: Driver for Creative WebCAM III (root@cummings.uol.com.br)
> 10. Re: Driver for Creative WebCAM III (and general driver design issues) (Nicolas Roussel)
> 11. Re: Driver for Creative WebCAM III (and general driver design issues) (Gleicon S. Moraes)
> 12. CPiA 0.7.2 & Zoomtel camera: Colour balance strangeness (rich@annexia.org)
> 13. Re: CPiA 0.7.2 & Zoomtel camera: Colour balance strangeness (Johannes Erdfelt)
> 14. Re: CPiA 0.7.2 & Zoomtel camera: Colour balance strangeness (rich@annexia.org)
> 15. Re: adminsitrativa - archive problems (Mads Bondo Dydensborg)
> 16. /dev/video (Thunder)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [cpia] Device or resource busy
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:18:39 +0100
> From: jylam <jylam@hangover.fr>
> Organization: HangOver
> To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> Hi all.
>
> since 3-4 hours, I'm trying to make my Creative WebCamII working.
>
> But.
>
> Here is my lsmod:
>
> Module Size Used by
> parport_pc 5012 0 (autoclean)
> cpia 48476 0
> parport_probe 2884 0
> videodev 2400 0 [cpia]
> appletalk 17312 11 (autoclean)
> nfs 29944 1 (autoclean)
> lockd 30856 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
> sunrpc 52356 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
> parport 7092 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc parport_probe]
> eepro100 12112 1 (autoclean)
> es1371 23212 0
> soundcore 2372 4 [es1371]
>
> Everything is good, but cpia_pp.
>
> root@talisker: (bash) 1164 /home/racine/cpia-0.7.1/module > insmod cpia_pp.o
> cpia_pp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> here is my /var/log/messages
>
> Mar 1 12:16:17 talisker kernel: Parallel port driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v0.7.1
> Mar 1 12:16:17 talisker kernel: 0 camera(s) found
>
> I tried the Patch posted the Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:42:39, it don't work at all, it's the same result.
>
> So what's wrong ? is my MAKEDEV video wrong ? or anything ? Please help me, or I think I will eat a *big* dog :)
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> ,---------. ,------------------.
> |Jean-Yves \___/ Jylam@HangOver.fr |
> `---------------------^------------'
> Administrateur systeme Linux
> Hangover (http://www.hangover.fr)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [cpia] Oups
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:20:46 +0100
> From: jylam <jylam@hangover.fr>
> Organization: HangOver
> To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> Oups, sorry, I missed to say that I use a parallel version of Creative
> WebCamII, so don't talk to me about usb :)
>
> --
> ,---------. ,------------------.
> |Jean-Yves \___/ Jylam@HangOver.fr |
> `---------------------^------------'
> Administrateur systeme Linux
> Hangover (http://www.hangover.fr)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [cpia] mhh, you have to kill me
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:23:06 +0100
> From: jylam <jylam@hangover.fr>
> Organization: HangOver
> To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> Kill me if you think I'm boring :)
> I missed to say that my parallel port IS ECP (parport0: PC-style at
> 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]),too.
> It whould be okay, now :)
>
> --
> ,---------. ,------------------.
> |Jean-Yves \___/ Jylam@HangOver.fr |
> `---------------------^------------'
> Administrateur systeme Linux
> Hangover (http://www.hangover.fr)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: RE: [cpia] Device or resource busy
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:14:52 +0100 (CET)
> From: Peter Pregler <Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
> Organization: RISC-Linz
> To: jylam <jylam@hangover.fr>
> CC: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> On 01-Mar-2000 jylam wrote:
> >
> > Mar 1 12:16:17 talisker kernel: Parallel port driver for Vision CPiA
> > based cameras v0.7.1
> > Mar 1 12:16:17 talisker kernel: 0 camera(s) found
> >
> > I tried the Patch posted the Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:42:39, it don't work at
> > all, it's the same result.
>
> I had a similar problem with 0.7.1. The patch to 0.7.2 posted by Scott
> on Feb-27 solved the problem for me. Apparently there are some changes in
> the camera-initialisation code that also affect the parport-code. If I get
> the problems again with 0.7.2 I will have a deeper look into it.
>
> -Peter
>
> -------------------------------
> Email: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> WWW: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/ppregler
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [cpia] adminsitrativa - archive problems
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:52:09 +0100 (CET)
> From: Peter Pregler <Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
> Organization: RISC-Linz
> To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> Dear all,
>
> due to some sillyness of mine no mails were archived after 12th of
> February. :( I have added what I had in my private mbox manually. Since I
> keep only important stuff in my private box this should do it. :) If you
> feel censored or think anything important is missing just send it to me by
> e-mail and I will add it to the archive again.
>
> Sorry, Peter
>
> -------------------------------
> Email: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> WWW: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/ppregler
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] cpia-0.7.2
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:01:27 +0100 (MET)
> From: Tore Halset <halset@pvv.ntnu.no>
> To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 sbertin@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > This patch is relative to cpia-0.7.1
>
> Will this be included in the kernel?
>
> - Tore.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [cpia] Driver for Creative WebCAM III
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:16:02 -0300
> From: fabiano.reis@uol.com.br
> Organization: Universo Online
> To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> Some one know if there is a driver for this cam?
>
> TKS,
>
> Fabiano
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] Driver for Creative WebCAM III
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:04:51 +0100 (CET)
> From: Nicolas Roussel <nicolas.roussel@gmd.de>
> To: fabiano.reis@uol.com.br
> CC: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> References: <38BBFED2.36BF9D78@uol.com.br>
>
> Oi Fabiano !
>
> A driver for OV511-based cameras (including WebCam III) is included in
> recent kernels (in the USB driver section). For more information,
> check :
>
> http://people.delphi.com/mmcclelland/linux/ov511.html
>
> Nicolas
>
> --
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Nicolas Roussel mailto:nicolas.roussel@gmd.de
> GMD - FIT.HCI, Schloss Birlinghoven http://www-ihm.lri.fr/~roussel/
> 53754 St. Augustin, Germany phone: +49 2241 14-2154 / fax: 14-2065
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] Driver for Creative WebCAM III
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:40:35 -0300
> From: fabiano.reis@uol.com.br
> Organization: Universo Online
> To: Nicolas Roussel <nicolas.roussel@gmd.de>
> CC: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> References: <38BBFED2.36BF9D78@uol.com.br> <20000229170451.4CEEA14D@mimix.gmd.de>
>
> Nicolas,
>
> I forgot to remember: I'm using a WebCam Creative III in paralell port.
>
> -Fabiano (br-sp/sp)
>
> Nicolas Roussel wrote:
>
> > Oi Fabiano !
> >
> > A driver for OV511-based cameras (including WebCam III) is included in
> > recent kernels (in the USB driver section). For more information,
> > check :
> >
> > http://people.delphi.com/mmcclelland/linux/ov511.html
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> > --
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Nicolas Roussel mailto:nicolas.roussel@gmd.de
> > GMD - FIT.HCI, Schloss Birlinghoven http://www-ihm.lri.fr/~roussel/
> > 53754 St. Augustin, Germany phone: +49 2241 14-2154 / fax: 14-2065
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > cpia mailing list - cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> > http://mailman.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/cpia
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] Driver for Creative WebCAM III (and general driver design issues)
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:57:25 +0100 (CET)
> From: Nicolas Roussel <nicolas.roussel@gmd.de>
> To: fabiano.reis@uol.com.br
> CC: nicolas.roussel@gmd.de, cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> References: <38BBFED2.36BF9D78@uol.com.br> <20000229170451.4CEEA14D@mimix.gmd.de> <38BC12A3.84483A7B@uol.com.br>
>
> > I forgot to remember: I'm using a WebCam Creative III in paralell port.
>
> Hum... Then I guess you might be able to use some of the cpia_pp code
> and the USB OV511 driver to create a new driver.
>
> Maybe Peter Pregler or Scott Bertin can help you with this (I don't
> know the internals of the cpia_pp driver). You should also contact
> Mark McClelland, the guy responsible for the OV511 USB driver.
>
> I think this PP/USB question about the OV511 shows once again that the
> drivers could be split into smaller parts. I can see at least three :
>
> - what the chip can do
> - how it is attached to the computer (here, PP/USB)
>
> - how the capabilities of the chip are mapped onto V4L API
>
> The unified CPiA driver already separates the two first parts. Why not
> take the V4L API out of cpia.c ? We could then have a cpia_v4l.c, a
> cpia_v4l2.c or even another user space library.
>
> Comments anybody ?
>
> Nicolas
>
> --
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Nicolas Roussel mailto:nicolas.roussel@gmd.de
> GMD - FIT.HCI, Schloss Birlinghoven http://www-ihm.lri.fr/~roussel/
> 53754 St. Augustin, Germany phone: +49 2241 14-2154 / fax: 14-2065
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] Driver for Creative WebCAM III (and general driver design issues)
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:11:03 -0300
> From: "Gleicon S. Moraes" <gleicon@uol.com.br>
> To: "Nicolas Roussel" <nicolas.roussel@gmd.de>, <fabiano.reis@uol.com.br>
> CC: <nicolas.roussel@gmd.de>, <cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
> References: <38BBFED2.36BF9D78@uol.com.br> <20000229170451.4CEEA14D@mimix.gmd.de> <38BC12A3.84483A7B@uol.com.br> <20000229185725.90FC5204@mimix.gmd.de>
>
> Well, I think such design would be a good start point to use news features
> like v4l-2, new chips, and to make the things cleaner:
>
> chip -> device ( parport or usb) -> access method ( v4l, v4l-2, or even
> another spec , i dont know :D ).
>
> The only point is: we already have the driver going stable ( well, at least
> for me its *very* stable and production quality) and changes like this, take
> time to be stable and done...
> This design in *theory* are a good step to portability, and a good way to
> add features like news chips and video formats, and a good way to port it
> between O.S's.
> Well, Just comments ...
> Best regards
>
> Gleicon S. Moraes
> p.s.; excuse my bad english.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nicolas Roussel <nicolas.roussel@gmd.de>
> To: <fabiano.reis@uol.com.br>
> Cc: <nicolas.roussel@gmd.de>; <cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 3:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [cpia] Driver for Creative WebCAM III (and general driver
> design issues)
>
> >
> > > I forgot to remember: I'm using a WebCam Creative III in paralell port.
> >
> > Hum... Then I guess you might be able to use some of the cpia_pp code
> > and the USB OV511 driver to create a new driver.
> >
> > Maybe Peter Pregler or Scott Bertin can help you with this (I don't
> > know the internals of the cpia_pp driver). You should also contact
> > Mark McClelland, the guy responsible for the OV511 USB driver.
> >
> > I think this PP/USB question about the OV511 shows once again that the
> > drivers could be split into smaller parts. I can see at least three :
> >
> > - what the chip can do
> > - how it is attached to the computer (here, PP/USB)
> >
> > - how the capabilities of the chip are mapped onto V4L API
> >
> > The unified CPiA driver already separates the two first parts. Why not
> > take the V4L API out of cpia.c ? We could then have a cpia_v4l.c, a
> > cpia_v4l2.c or even another user space library.
> >
> > Comments anybody ?
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> > --
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Nicolas Roussel mailto:nicolas.roussel@gmd.de
> > GMD - FIT.HCI, Schloss Birlinghoven http://www-ihm.lri.fr/~roussel/
> > 53754 St. Augustin, Germany phone: +49 2241 14-2154 / fax: 14-2065
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > cpia mailing list - cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> > http://mailman.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/cpia
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [cpia] CPiA 0.7.2 & Zoomtel camera: Colour balance strangeness
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:42:03 +0000
> From: rich@annexia.org
> To: CPiA mailing list <cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
>
> Dear all:
>
> Running gqcam supplied with cpia-0.7.2 (kernel 2.3.48), or
> running Xawtv, I get strange colour-balance problems. The
> picture appears yellow most of the time, as in this example:
>
> http://www.annexia.org/tmp/yellow.jpg
>
> (about 1 in every 10 times I run the program, the colour
> is correct). Note that the walls in this picture are white
> and the poster on the right is turquoise.
>
> If I put my hand over the camera for a few seconds, then
> afterwards, everything is green (:-)
>
> http://www.annexia.org/tmp/green.jpg
>
> ... for a few seconds before going dark!
>
> http://www.annexia.org/tmp/dark.jpg
>
> ... permanently. You have to restart gqcam to get back to
> `normal' (ie. yellow mode).
>
> I have tried setting color_balance_mode and exposure_mode
> to manual and auto, but to no apparent effect. I also tried
> setting the {red,green,blue}_gain settings, but these seem
> to have a mind of their own, and just wander back to obviously
> incorrect values after I set them (independent of whether the
> various exposure_mode and color_balance_mode are manual or
> not).
>
> Oh, and these problems only really occur in low light conditions
> (with a 60W bulb). In very bright daylight the results are much
> better. Being a hacker I'm obviously mainly interested in the low
> light situation :-)
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
> Rich.
>
> read-only
> -----------------------
> CPIA Version: 1.30 (2.10)
> CPIA PnP-ID: 0553:0002:0100
> VP-Version: 1.0 0100
> system_state: 0x02
> grab_state: 0x10
> stream_state: 0x00
> fatal_error: 0x00
> cmd_error: 0x00
> debug_flags: 0x00
> vp_status: 0x10
> error_code: 0x80
> video_size: CIF
> sub_sample: 422
> yuv_order: YUYV
> roi: ( 0, 0) to (352, 288)
> actual_fps: 4
> transfer_rate: 918kB/s
>
> read-write
> ----------------------- current min max default comment
> brightness: 50 0 100 50
> contrast: 48 0 96 48 steps of 8
> saturation: 49 0 100 50
> sensor_fps: 15.000 3 30 15
> stream_start_line: 240 0 288 240
> ecp_timing: normal slow normal normal
> color_balance_mode: manual manual auto auto
> red_gain: 6 0 212 32
> green_gain: 208 0 212 6
> blue_gain: 210 0 212 92
> max_gain: 2 1,2,4,8 2
> exposure_mode: manual manual auto auto
> centre_weight: off off on on
> gain: 2 1 max_gain 1 1,2,4,8 possible
> fine_exp: 0 0 511 0
> coarse_exp: 256 0 65535 185
> red_comp: 0 220 255 220
> green1_comp: 0 214 255 214
> green2_comp: 192 214 255 214
> blue_comp: 128 230 255 230
> apcor_gain1: 0x1c 0x0 0xff 0x1c
> apcor_gain2: 0x1a 0x0 0xff 0x1a
> apcor_gain4: 0x2d 0x0 0xff 0x2d
> apcor_gain8: 0x2a 0x0 0xff 0x2a
> vl_offset_gain1: 24 0 255 24
> vl_offset_gain2: 28 0 255 28
> vl_offset_gain4: 30 0 255 30
> vl_offset_gain8: 30 0 255 30
> flicker_control: off off on off
> mains_frequency: 50 50 60 50 only 50/60
> allowable_overexposure: 0 0 255 0
> compression_mode: auto none,auto,manual auto
> decimation_enable: off off off off
> compression_target: framerate framerate quality quality
> target_framerate: 7 0 30 7
> target_quality: 10 0 255 10
> y_threshold: 3 0 31 15
> uv_threshold: 3 0 31 15
> hysteresis: 3 0 255 3
> threshold_max: 11 0 255 11
> small_step: 1 0 255 1
> large_step: 3 0 255 3
> decimation_hysteresis: 2 0 255 2
> fr_diff_step_thresh: 5 0 255 5
> q_diff_step_thresh: 3 0 255 3
> decimation_thresh_mod: 2 0 255 2
>
> --
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>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] CPiA 0.7.2 & Zoomtel camera: Colour balance strangeness
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:05:12 -0500
> From: Johannes Erdfelt <jerdfelt@sventech.com>
> To: rich@annexia.org
> CC: CPiA mailing list <cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
> References: <20000229214202.B11723@www.annexia.org>
>
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000, rich@annexia.org <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> > Dear all:
> >
> > Running gqcam supplied with cpia-0.7.2 (kernel 2.3.48), or
> > running Xawtv, I get strange colour-balance problems. The
> > picture appears yellow most of the time, as in this example:
> >
> > http://www.annexia.org/tmp/yellow.jpg
> >
> > (about 1 in every 10 times I run the program, the colour
> > is correct). Note that the walls in this picture are white
> > and the poster on the right is turquoise.
> >
> > If I put my hand over the camera for a few seconds, then
> > afterwards, everything is green (:-)
> >
> > http://www.annexia.org/tmp/green.jpg
> >
> > ... for a few seconds before going dark!
> >
> > http://www.annexia.org/tmp/dark.jpg
> >
> > ... permanently. You have to restart gqcam to get back to
> > `normal' (ie. yellow mode).
> >
> > I have tried setting color_balance_mode and exposure_mode
> > to manual and auto, but to no apparent effect. I also tried
> > setting the {red,green,blue}_gain settings, but these seem
> > to have a mind of their own, and just wander back to obviously
> > incorrect values after I set them (independent of whether the
> > various exposure_mode and color_balance_mode are manual or
> > not).
> >
> > Oh, and these problems only really occur in low light conditions
> > (with a 60W bulb). In very bright daylight the results are much
> > better. Being a hacker I'm obviously mainly interested in the low
> > light situation :-)
>
> FWIW, I've seen this as well. It sometimes is yellowish, or purplish (I
> think). Mostly yellow.
>
> JE
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] CPiA 0.7.2 & Zoomtel camera: Colour balance strangeness
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:09:13 +0000
> From: rich@annexia.org
> To: CPiA mailing list <cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
> References: <20000229214202.B11723@www.annexia.org> <20000229170512.X16908@sventech.com>
>
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:05:12PM -0500, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > FWIW, I've seen this as well. It sometimes is yellowish, or purplish (I
> > think). Mostly yellow.
>
> Yeah, purplish. Seen that too, but only very rarely.
>
> Rich.
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [cpia] adminsitrativa - archive problems
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:47:52 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>
> To: Peter Pregler <Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
> CC: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Peter Pregler wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > due to some sillyness of mine no mails were archived after 12th of
> > February. :( I have added what I had in my private mbox manually. Since I
> > keep only important stuff in my private box this should do it. :) If you
> > feel censored or think anything important is missing just send it to me by
> > e-mail and I will add it to the archive again.
>
> In case you need it, I should have every mail.
>
> Mads
>
> You know you're a Linux geek when...
>
> You can reconstruct your fstab from scratch, and not even think about it.
>
> - segfault
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [cpia] /dev/video
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:34:07 -0600
> From: Thunder <thunder@ultravision.net>
> To: cpia@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> hi all
>
> I have a Ezonics webcam and running 2.3.47 kernel with cpia-0.7.1.
> The problem I am incurring is that application xawtv or gqcam
> errors when ran with:
>
> open /dev/video
> no video grabber device available
>
> This doesnt happen all the time.. it's spaztic.. stops and starts
> on it's own.. I have not been able to control when it stops or
> when it decides to work again...
>
> I have not been able to pinpoint what is causing it, I have a site
> that streamer (a xawtv app.) pointed at my local webpage as
> a test and is supposed to take a clip every 30 seconds. But even
> if this function is disabled I have the same error.. My logs dont show
> anything out of the ordinary. Any clues or possible troubleshooting
> technics in this matter sure would be appreciated.
>
> Bill Espinosa
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:) I just re-read this post ... hmm it doesnt tell much... the cam is
a USB. Ps is'nt showing any other app using it and rebooting appears to help
for a bit.. Is there any output i should be watching while troubleshooting this?
Thanks inadvance
Bill Espinosa