Bug#246251: quickcam driver needs doublebuffer compatibility mode

Matthew Dempsky Matthew Dempsky <jivera@flame.org>, 246251@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:55:36 -0500


kk@verfaction.de wrote:

> could anyone please brief me on the status here?
> 
> The Quickcam driver is about the only driver around i know of that does
> require you to set double-buffering for their default is a single
> buffer. This is legal with the V4L API, yet all other V4L drivers do
> double buffering by default.
> AFAIR, gnomemeeting 1.0.2 and pwlib 1.6.5 fixed that problem, but i am
> not sure, as i'm also pretty closely following the CVS. Could any of you
> try if it's still neccessary to run:
> qc-set compat=dblbuf <v4ldevice>
> or not to make things work with GM or not?

I'm using the GnomeMeeting in Testing (0.98.5-8) along with the
quickcam driver, and yes I did have to use "qcset /dev/video0
compat=dblbuf" so that GM wouldn't lockup when connecting to my MCU.