[AG-TECH] UBUNTU 9.10, VIC, webcam (driver pb ?)

[Philippe d'Anfray]

Great ! I tested  successfully all our webcams

Merci  Philippe

Christoph Willing a écrit :
> We have a new vic with a fix for the webcam issue (thanks to Doug
> Kosovich of UQVislab). It has been only lightly tested so please
> report any problems with it.
>
> If the UQVislab repo is enabled on your system (as it probably is, if
> you're running AG in Ubuntu), the new vic package can be installed
> with the commands:
>     sudo apt-get update
>     sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> or you could use Synaptic or the Update Manager if you prefer a gui.
>
> Please note that for Ubuntu users this fix is only required for 9.10
> (Karmic Koala), due to the recency of the kernel version it uses.
> There is no new ag-vic package available nor needed for earlier Ubuntu
> releases.
>
>
> chris
>
>
> On 07/12/2009, at 6:44 PM, Philippe d'Anfray wrote:
>
>> Bonjour
>>
>> Ouf ! I'm not the only one... :-)   I was thinking of "going back" to
>> ubuntu 9.04
>> now it seems to be the only thing to do for the  time being.
>>
>> Merci
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>> Christoph Willing a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>> We've now been able to replicate your problem with another webcam that
>>> is usually "well behaved". At the moment it looks related to the
>>> kernel version since a particular version of vic that works fine with
>>> this webcam and kernel series 2.6.29 does not work with the 2.6.31
>>> series kernel.
>>>
>>> Maybe vic will need some modification to adapt to the newer kernels.
>>> We'll let you know when there is some progress. Until then, the only
>>> immediate solutions I can think of are:
>>>  1. revert to an earlier version of your distro (which contains an
>>> earlier kernel version), e.g. karmic->jaunty
>>> or
>>>  2. install an earlier kernel version, e.g. 2.6.31.* -> 2.6.29.6
>>>
>>
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>
> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland
>
>

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