On Mo, 2008-03-10 at 22:35 -0400, Zenko Klapko Jr. wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> > Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:02 PM > Subject: Re: cheese brings a smile to my face > To: "Zenko Klapko Jr." <covertcodeop1 gmail com> > Cc: "cheese-list gnome org" <cheese-list gnome org> > > > > On So, 2008-03-09 at 20:01 -0400, Zenko Klapko Jr. wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > Thank you for writing cheese. It's a simple and useful program. I'm > > looking over the source and perhaps you can provide me with a bit of > > wisdom. Well, two bits. I'm running ubuntu gusty and am able to see > > the webcam preview, able to save photos, but if I toggle to video mode > > X locks up. > > that seems very strange to me.. we had such a bug a while ago, but that > was due a bug in the graphics driver.. what graphics card do you have? > > #### > I have a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY graphics card and > I am using the radeon driver. can you try to save the logs, gdb trace to a file and submit a new bug? > > > I'd imagine I could ssh in, kill cheese, and it would snap > > back but I'd have to setup another computer. Do you know why it locks > > up on the switch to video mode? Also, I'm thinking about a project to > > combine video taken from a webcam with other data such as gps. Besides > > reading the source from cheese are there other resources you used to > > figure out how to grab frames? I spent a moment or two poking around > > and it looks like cheese doesn't talk directly to /dev/video0 but > > talks to gnome or gstreamer. > > exactly, we are just using gstreamer to get the data from the device. > > i forwarded your message to the cheese mailing list; lets discuss it > there! > > #### > yeah i'm sure you get flooded with email messages. > > > daniel > > > > > Always learning, > > -Zenko > > > -- > this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons > ================================================ > daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> > http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel > gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 > fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 > encrypted email preferred > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cheese-list mailing list > Cheese-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/cheese-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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