From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Sep 24 15:44:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28869 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA28848 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA04645; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:44:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Christoph Kukulies cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vic-2.8 - quickcam In-Reply-To: <199609241625.SAA06603@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I'm getting varying results from the quickcam. > in 6bit mode the whole system holds breath > every seconds together with heavy disk activity - > syslog? I'm also getting a bunch of timeouts > on reading the quickcam. YES! The darn qcam driver just fills the syslog to the rim. I don't know if the grabber is opening it in the wrong mode or what, but take a look at your syslog after about three minutes of activty. It's about 5 log entries per second. I think I'm going to hack the qcam driver to shut it up. > Sep 24 18:19:51 isdn-kukulies /kernel: qcam0: 1 timeouts during init > Sep 24 18:19:52 isdn-kukulies /kernel: qcam0: 6bpp unidirectional scan mode selected > Sep 24 18:20:23 isdn-kukulies last message repeated 31 times > Sep 24 18:22:24 isdn-kukulies last message repeated 113 times At least your machine picked up the repeat. > I would suggest an environment variable to set the > quickcam whitebalance to a fixed value. > From what I've read this value is a constant and > distinct value for every individual instance. > This would ease adjustment and confine it to two degrees of > freedom rather than three :-) I don't mind the whitebalance; it's sort of a softer brightness. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major