spca5xx freezes system

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 23:27:53 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 22:22 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 
> > The bottom line is that this guy clearly has no clue what is wrong,
> > and as long as it "works for him" he has no interest in investigating.
> 
> I also had an FC kernel freeze on insmod of this project, but to cut the 
> guy some slack it is hard for him to get anywhere debugging it if he 
> doesn't have a Fedora / GCC4-kernel box around to provoke the symptoms; 
> maybe for money or time reasons that's insurmountable for him.
> 
> It seems he is making a rewrite anyway so perhaps this can help. 
> Webcams seem to stand revealed as the last remaining bastion of poor 
> support, even Wifi seems to be coming together.

I had a total lockup after installing that rpm. Rebooted and all I got
was a blue screen. Ric

I had to drop back a kernel for the system to boot at all. 
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