Hi, I'm Kopete's video maintainer. This bug is the same as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117537 . The problem that prevents me from fixing this bug properly is the fact some drivers, like Michel Xhaard's gspca1, behave wrongly, making not only Kopete but every program that uses usb webcams through gspca1 freeze. Some drivers, like uvc, return an error (EINVAL) from a kernel call when the device is disconnected. gspca1 simply freezes. There's no feasible workaround to address this bug, and the best way is to ask kindly Michel Xhaard to fix the bug in his driver, but it seems the man is not exactly helpful, as can be seen in http://lists.kde.org/?l=kopete-devel&m=119429215312848&w=2 . Some people are trying to do a patch to Michel Xhaard's driver, but it would only help people if the patch can be included in the official gspca1 source code, or if somebody takes over gspca1's development and does the long due code cleaning and V4L2 porting. My attachment is a program capable of testing a given kernel driver when a webcam is disconnected. Some changes must be done to the source code to make the program test your specific device.
** Attachment added: "Example code to test how a kernel driver behaves when a webcam is disconnected." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10336015/v4l-example.c -- when i unplg usb camera kopete freeze or crash everytime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139115 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug assignee. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
