Bug 179702 – media-video/usb-pwc-re-20070524.042701 version bump

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO

[Description Nicholas Doyle 2007-05-25 01:41:18 UTC]

The current version of usb-pwc-re in portage (20061023.042702-r1) has some bugs. The bug I came across does not allow webcams to be used with Flash. I updated to the latest snapshot for today (20070524.042701) and I no longer experience this bug.

The only change that needs to be made to the ebuild is that in src_unpack() the config.h.patch should no longer be applied.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-06-24 21:57:34 UTC]

Anyone in video has this hardware? 

Fixed some 'qa' issues for bug 174751 and bug 174752 but they still seem like a mess, we should dump version supporting 2.4 kernels and clean up all them to use linux-mod.eclass..

And bump this. I'll do that, if no response comes here in coming days.. weeks or so.

[Comment 2 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2007-06-25 08:08:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> The current version of usb-pwc-re in portage (20061023.042702-r1) has some
> bugs. The bug I came across does not allow webcams to be used with Flash. I
> updated to the latest snapshot for today (20070524.042701) and I no longer
> experience this bug.
> 
> The only change that needs to be made to the ebuild is that in src_unpack() the
> config.h.patch should no longer be applied.
> 
> Reproducible: Always

Please let us known which kernel sources you were using.

[Comment 3 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2007-06-25 08:26:10 UTC]

Regarding the original version bump request - is there any special reason that prevents you from just using the driver that is shipped with current linux kernels?

[Comment 4 Nicholas Doyle 2007-06-25 12:35:06 UTC]

Kernel:
Linux A8 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 27 20:10:59 ADT 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I have not used the in kernel version of this driver because I have always had problems with it. I have always gotten a gray screen instead of the expected video. I also don't know how up to date the version in the kernel is which is important because the whole point of this bug is to get a version of the driver which is up to date and has certain bugs fixed. I can try the in kernel versions later tonight, if you think that would be helpful, to see if there has been any changes in behavior but I have a feeling I will get my usual results.

[Comment 5 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2007-07-16 08:28:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
[...]
> I can try the in kernel
> versions later tonight, if you think that would be helpful, to see if there has
> been any changes in behavior but I have a feeling I will get my usual results.

Hm, I thought that question was implying that you would try - yes, please do so and re-open with the results.

[Comment 6 Nicholas Doyle 2007-09-20 12:57:17 UTC]

In kernel version of this driver works for me using gentoo-sources 2.6.22. Is there much need for the separate package in portage now (particularly if it does not work as well as the in kernel version)?