are you using mod_quickcam [qce-ga]? if so, that driver is in alpha
state and not very stable. i suspect the driver.
i have a quickcam express and use this driver.
Mike Andrew wrote:
>Every so often, I totally fluke it and running xawtv produces a perfect real
>time image from my logitech quickam express.
>
>ditto using Sane's scanimage
>
>On most reboots however, using what I think are identical means of setting
>the usb camera up, xawtv simply shows a black screen. no errors, nada.
>
>I *think* the problem is either in the X server, or, in one of the higher
>non-usb modules such as videodev. The usb component modules report no errors,
>and indeed, using debugs and tracing, the video stream coming from the camera
>seems 100% ok.
>
>But, I'm lost chasing a paper trail trying to find why the image has gone
>black when image data is indeed getting thru the usb driver subsystem.
>
>I am reasonably certain the modules loaded and the paramaters, in fact
>everything i do is identical, working and non-working. I *think* the problem
>is order of loading or some sequence like that (eg starting usbcore too
>early, whatever)
>
>Is someone here on on the usb mailgroup or anywhere else, that has seen this
>problem before?
>
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thanks!
joe
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