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Dragon_at_work m_giggey@BeansYou.co.jp
Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:55:14 +0900


On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:42, Blaise Gassend wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Hum, you seem to have found a bug related to my patch for doing DMA
> reads from the CPiA camera. I don't think that the code has been very
> widely tested and there may be some difference between your hardware and
> mine. I'm afraid I don't have any constructive advice for you. It looks
> like the driver is expecting data that the camera isn't sending, to
> debug it one would have to look at the details of the communication
> between the camera and the computer.
>
> Blaise
>
> Quoted from Cris on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:50:43PM +0100.
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a OLD Creative Video Blaster WebCam II in my Mandrake 9.1, but It
> > works _slooooooowly_ (about 1 frame every second). I have downloaded the
> > lastest cpia drivers from http://webcam.sourceforge.net (the "original"
> > mandrake 9.1 drivers was very old!!!!), and I have compiled it and I have
> > copied the files cpia.o cpia_pp.o cpia_usb.o in the directory
> > /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video.
> >
> > In my /etc/modules.conf I have added the lines:
> > options cpia_pp partport=0
> > options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
> >
> > Now, the frame rate is better (about 10 fps), but after 1 min. running
> > the program doesn't respond. I have used xawtv and camstreams programs
> > with the same results.
> >
> > What is it wrong? Maybe, have I to patch the kernel or the paralell port
> > module?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cris,
> > Málaga (SPAIN)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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