USB webcam weirdness

[Net Llama!]

On 12/01/2004 11:47 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 02:10, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Well it happened again this morning. I'm starting to think that it has 
>>something to do with direct sun, as its always happening around sunrise.
>>
>>As for what version of v4l, the app doesn't say which version it uses, 
>>but i'm assuming its v4l and not v4l2.
> 
> 
> OK. Odd that the images would be black. When a CCD is overloaded, it
> depends on the electronics what happens. Maybe the webcam turns off the
> CCD when there is too much light. That would be unusual. But possible.
> Usually the image is simply white. We have this with cameras in our
> vehicles. When the sun hits them, they go white. But these are high-end
> cameras and may have electronics better able to deal with too much
> light.
> 
> Does bytesex have newer v4l drivers than in your kernel? I think the
> development is only for v4l2. For that reason I would choose a v4l2 app.
> 
> But if you suspect the camera...


My magic cronjob that unloads all the modules for usb & the webcam and 
then loads them again seems to have done the trick.  All has been well 
for the past 2 days.


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