Public bug reported: The UVC video driver lacks the VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl and this limits the software it can work with.
This problem can easily be reproduced as follows. Note the error it gets for the VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl. dcamp...@vostro:~$ hasciicam HasciiCam 0.9.1 - (h)ascii 4 the masses! - http://ascii.dyne.org (c)2000-2003 Denis Rojo < jaromil @ dyne.org > watch out for the (h)ASCII ROOTS http://hascii.org Device detected is /dev/video0 Integrated Webcam 1 channels detected max size w[1280] h[1024] - min size w[48] h[32] Video capabilities: VID_TYPE_CAPTURE can capture to memory !! error in ioctl VIDIOCGMBUF: : Invalid argument This is a right-up-to-date Intrepid.... r...@vostro:~# lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- uvc video driver lacks VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331014 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
