On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos > <registo.mailling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with >> nodrop=1 in order to get things to work smoothly, do search in the >> forums, I believe I saw something about this there. > > I can't believe that I did not find this valuable information earlier. > Thank you, that solved this problem. ...and just after I wrote this, the system froze again, after several hours of skyping :( This time it happened when I opened a movie during a skype session. nodrop=1 is still on.