Hi everyone, I've been using a Logitech Sphere for years on various projects. This model is probably from the first batch ever made. In lsusb it shows up as 046d:08b5 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Sphere It's a bit troublesome, because on older kernel versions (~2.4.x, ~2.6.2x) I never had a single issue with this hardware at all, on several different platforms ranging from x86 to x86_64, to arm (ep93xx), etc. However, somewhere between then and now, the pwc driver underwent some changes rendering this device unusable in any recent kernel. All of my old apps and new apps (including cheese, mplayer, etc) simply hang indefinitely waiting to read a single frame (using the v4l2 mmap api). The v4l2 read api also hangs indefinitely (using pwcgrab). A few of the very old apps that I have also use the v4l1 api, with a 2.4.26 kernel, and that actually works. I can verify that the hardware itself is fine on windows (also using very old drivers from Logitech). Who has been working on this driver? What were the major changes that have been applied? I'm guessing that the bridge / sensor init sequence has been messed up somehow. Any ideas? Cheers, Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
