spca5xx freezes system

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/16/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 22:22 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> > Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >
> > > The bottom line is that this guy clearly has no clue what is wrong,
> > > and as long as it "works for him" he has no interest in investigating.
> >
> > I also had an FC kernel freeze on insmod of this project, but to cut the
> > guy some slack it is hard for him to get anywhere debugging it if he
> > doesn't have a Fedora / GCC4-kernel box around to provoke the symptoms;
> > maybe for money or time reasons that's insurmountable for him.
> >
> > It seems he is making a rewrite anyway so perhaps this can help.
> > Webcams seem to stand revealed as the last remaining bastion of poor
> > support, even Wifi seems to be coming together.
>
> I had a total lockup after installing that rpm. Rebooted and all I got
> was a blue screen. Ric
>
> I had to drop back a kernel for the system to boot at all.

The lockup is the same bug that I hit.  Thankfully I never ran into
any of the other problems.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
L. Friedman                                    netllama at gmail.com
LlamaLand                       http://netllama.linux-sxs.org