Re: help with Thinkpad T21 with Ultracam, please

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Quoting Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Linux newbie (mostly) running SuSE 7.3 (kernel 2.4.10) on an IBM 
> Thinkpad T21 with the Ultracam USB camera.  I found out the 2.4.10 
> kernel didn't include a module for the ultracam, but later versions do, 
> so I've installed the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's ftp site, and so far 
> that seems to be working.
> 
> Now, motv appears, but the picture is unusable - I see a rolling or 
> flickering matrix of images, alternating black and white backgrounds 
> like a checkerboard, with an apparent image of my head in each.

This seems to be a driver issue, not a v4l. As I see it, the stream
decoder is not working properly. Email the author of the driver for help
(see http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html ). I can not help you beyond
that advice, I never even saw this camera...

Dmitri

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