spca5xx freezes system

[Lonni J Friedman]

I emailed the developer again yesterday, and he told me that he
believes the problem to be gcc-4.1 in FC5 (and not its kernel).  That
at least makes more sense than blaming the kernel, when the problem
also existed with an official kernel.org kernel too.

On 4/17/06, Eric Tanguy <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
> 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

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