<div dir="ltr">Hi Chris , <br><br>it seems that not only phillipe who faced this problem, as am facing it with some usb webcam here, a4tech and labtec.<br><br>I'm using the latest versions of accessgrid , and the problem still not solved, also am working on ubuntu 9.10 , with Nvidia graphic card.The cameras are working fine with other softwares like cheesa, but when it comes to accessgrid , i see the exact pic in phillipe's attachment , so what would cause the problem here ?<br>
<br>Regards <br><br>Muhammad<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Philippe d'Anfray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Philippe.d-Anfray@cea.fr">Philippe.d-Anfray@cea.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Great ! I tested successfully all our webcams<br>
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Merci Philippe<br>
<br>
Christoph Willing a écrit :<br>
> We have a new vic with a fix for the webcam issue (thanks to Doug<br>
> Kosovich of UQVislab). It has been only lightly tested so please<br>
> report any problems with it.<br>
><br>
> If the UQVislab repo is enabled on your system (as it probably is, if<br>
> you're running AG in Ubuntu), the new vic package can be installed<br>
> with the commands:<br>
> sudo apt-get update<br>
> sudo apt-get upgrade<br>
><br>
> or you could use Synaptic or the Update Manager if you prefer a gui.<br>
><br>
> Please note that for Ubuntu users this fix is only required for 9.10<br>
> (Karmic Koala), due to the recency of the kernel version it uses.<br>
> There is no new ag-vic package available nor needed for earlier Ubuntu<br>
> releases.<br>
><br>
><br>
> chris<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 07/12/2009, at 6:44 PM, Philippe d'Anfray wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Bonjour<br>
>><br>
>> Ouf ! I'm not the only one... :-) I was thinking of "going back" to<br>
>> ubuntu 9.04<br>
>> now it seems to be the only thing to do for the time being.<br>
>><br>
>> Merci<br>
>><br>
>> Philippe<br>
>><br>
>> Christoph Willing a écrit :<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> We've now been able to replicate your problem with another webcam that<br>
>>> is usually "well behaved". At the moment it looks related to the<br>
>>> kernel version since a particular version of vic that works fine with<br>
>>> this webcam and kernel series 2.6.29 does not work with the 2.6.31<br>
>>> series kernel.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Maybe vic will need some modification to adapt to the newer kernels.<br>
>>> We'll let you know when there is some progress. Until then, the only<br>
>>> immediate solutions I can think of are:<br>
>>> 1. revert to an earlier version of your distro (which contains an<br>
>>> earlier kernel version), e.g. karmic->jaunty<br>
>>> or<br>
>>> 2. install an earlier kernel version, e.g. 2.6.31.* -> 2.6.29.6<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> <Philippe_d-Anfray.vcf><br>
><br>
> Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316<br>
> QCIF Access Grid Manager<br>
> University of Queensland<br>
><br>
><br>
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