spca5xx freezes system

[Eric Tanguy]

Le dimanche 16 avril 2006 à 10:18 -0700, Lonni J Friedman a écrit :
> On 4/16/06, tiger <no-reply-gw at fcp.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5smp
> > gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)
> > spca5xx-20060402
> >
> > Compiles and installs fine. Modprobe spca5xx works fine. Here's the /var/log/messages output of doing a "modprobe spca5xx":
> >
> > Apr 16 12:18:39 electron kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> > Apr 16 12:18:39 electron kernel: usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
> > Apr 16 12:18:39 electron kernel: /root/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.11 registered
> >
> > Next, I plug in the camera, and /var/log/messages gives:
> >
> >
> > Apr 16 12:20:33 electron kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
> > Apr 16 12:20:33 electron kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > Apr 16 12:20:33 electron kernel: hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
> > Apr 16 12:20:33 electron kernel: hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
> > Apr 16 12:20:34 electron kernel: usb 1-2.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
> > Apr 16 12:20:34 electron kernel: usb 1-2.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > Apr 16 12:20:34 electron kernel: /root/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Type Creative Live! Zc301+Tas5130c
> > Apr 16 12:20:34 electron kernel: /root/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:8301] Camera type JPEG
> > Apr 16 12:20:35 electron kernel: /root/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:530] Find Sensor HV7131R(c)
> > Apr 16 12:20:35 electron kernel: /root/spca5xx-20060402/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:2198] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
> >
> > But when I run spcaview, it freezes the machine. For obvious reasons I can't cut-n-paste the screen output. Any ideas?
> 
> Same problem here with FC5 & spca5xx on a Biostar motherboard.  I had
> a serial console setup, and saw some crazy kernel Oops everytime.  I
> emailed the spca5xx maintainer and he blew me off initially stating
> that he only supports official kernel.org kernels.  So I built an
> official 2.6.16.1 kernel, and saw the same exact Oops all over again
> (plus on my system it just spontaneously reboots, instead of hanging).
>  Now the maintainer is just ignoring my emails, which leads me to
> believe that he doesn't know how to fix the problem.  *sigh*
> 
> 
Same problem here with FC5 and spca5xx on a asus (nvidia) motherboard. I
sent an email to Michel Xhaard few weeks before and he answered me this
problem seems fc5 specific because fc5 seems very buggy at least with
its specific kernel!
Since i obtain no answer and no solution to our problem.
Eric