I'm running Debian Woody with a 2.4.9 kernel that I compiled myself. Prior to using Debian, I ran Red Hat 6.1 with a 2.4.3 kernel. I have a Philips USB webcam that uses the se401 driver (http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vreeken/se401/ included in the kernel as of 2.4.6), which works with Video4Linux. Under Red Hat, my camera worked fine. I could grab frames from it using vidcat (part of the w3cam tools) without any problems.
Now that I am using Debian, however, whenever I try to grab a frame, my system hangs and I have to press the reset button. No error data seems to be generated in any of the logs, so I'm totally at a loss for what is causing this. When the camera worked, I was using Red Hat 6.1 with a 2.4.3 kernel, and the camera driver had to be compiled and loaded from user space. When I switched to Debian, the 2.4.5 kernel was out, so I used that, and began having problems at that point. When the driver was added to the kernel in 2.4.6, I switched to that, without success. The author says that he has not heard of anyone having problems when using it in 2.4.6. At this point, I suspect that there is something I don't know about using Video4Linux in Debian. There aren't many variables related to the camera in the kernel, so I'm pretty sure I have it compiled correctly. I know this doesn't give very much to go on, but I've been stumped for weeks. I know this camera can work in Linux, and I'm determined to solve the problem. If anyone can shed some light on the process, I would appreciate it immensely. Thanks. -- Owen B. Mehegan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.nerdnetworks.org "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself.' That's it." --Linus Torvalds
