Same things happen to me on Hardy 8.04 i386. I have a Logitech Quickcam Pro for Notebooks (046d:0991). The v4l driver is uvcvideo. I think this is related to limitations in the driver. Since this also causes problem in mplayer, drv-qtgui, v4l-conf and most v4l applications I tried.
** Changed in: xawtv (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- xawtv.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in ng_attr_getstr() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs