tv.deb...@googlemail.com writes: > I had one of those and there is a well know, but unfixed, firmware bug > affecting most Qc Pro 9000. If you search for "quickcam Pro 9000 > firmware bug" you will see what I mean by "well known bug". > > I tinkered a lot to get this camera to work and never got a reliable > behavior, sometimes the bug shows up very quickly, and at other times it > can run for a while properly before freezing. > > When it happens you can try unplugging the cam AND unloading/reloading > (modprobe) the uvcvideo driver, usually it was doing the trick for me. > But since I could not script the unplugging part ;-) I ended up buying a > new cam. > > I remember reading that forcing the snd_usb_audio to load before > uvcvideo is loaded eases the pain. Maybe writing a udev rule or a custom > ".conf" file in /etc/modprobe.d, or just a script to unload uvcvideo and > snd_usb_audio then reload them in the right order would help. But this > is no silver bullet, with my cam it didn't make the freezes go away > completely, just gave me more time in between.
Ah, okay. This gives me a few new things to try. :-) Thanks for your help - much appreciated! Alexis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87h9vrqo1g....@gmail.com