[PD] grdflow v4l2 error

[Yvan Volochine]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Yvan Volochine wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>> wrote:
>> mmh, I updated to maverick (2.6.25-24-generic) and it looks like it was a
>> bad idea..
>> any gridflow patch just freezes my os now :/
>>
>
> Any, or just when you try to get a frame from [#camera] ?
>

any patch (just by opening them)
then I can't kill pd because my keyboard is also lost..


> I do get a lot of freezes from [#camera], but that's because of the pwc.ko
> driver (for the Philips protocol). As far as I can tell, the Linux kernel
> has been shipping with a bad version of pwc for a while. But it doesn't
> freeze the OS, it just means I have to unload and reload the driver quite
> often, and kill Pd (Ctrl+c in the terminal works, but Ctrl+q in the pd-gui
> doesn't). I should reinstall a non-bundled version of pwc.ko like I used to
> have (I think I recall it made a difference).
>
> What's your situation ? (camera driver, if that's an issue...)


sorry but how do I find out my camera driver ?
I use a Sony Eye usb cam (from ps3).

cheers,
_y
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