possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

[César D. Rodas]

Hi Peter,
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 14:18 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi César,
> 
> >> > The problem with the camera seems to be the xf86-video-geode package.
> >> > The cafe_ccic module is loaded automatically. Cheese and recordactivity
> >> > crashed right before show any picture. Then I tested remotely with ssh
> >> > -X and it worked for olpc and root user and it works.
> >> >
> >> > This test was done with:
> >> >
> >> >      * XO-1 kernel: 2.6.31_xo1-20091214.1334.1.olpc.49c30d0
> >> >      * os10
> >> >
> >> > Even if it works remotely, there are a lots of warning messages on
> >> > the /var/log/messages:
> >>
> >> The gstreamer pipeline i used on the command line to take a photo is:
> >>
> >> gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc ! filesink
> >> location=foo.png
> > It works perfectly fine, thanks for your help.
> >
> > It seems to be that X is having a hard time displaying the video feed
> > for some reason I can't discover (yet). I took a look at
> > the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file (while attempting to run cheese) and it
> > said:
> >
> > "Could not allocate memory for the video"
> >
> > That's why it worked remotely before (apparently). I also tried loading
> > extra modules in xorg.conf (the ones that are loaded in the XO-1.5
> > config) but no go.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to read clues about how to fix it.
> 
> It sounds suspiciously like a Xv issue. That could be anything from a
> missing kernel module to a X driver bug. Out of interest can you play
> video using totem? Possibly record a video using a XO-1 with the
> working 802 build and see if it will play on one with the F11 build.
> That would rule out that issue, or possibly we could craft up a
> gstreamer pipeline that takes the output of the camera and displays it
> on the screen. Let me know how you go with the totem test and then
> we'll see where we can take it from there, if that works I can work
> out what the pipeline would need to be to test that raw.

Well, I've tried what you've suggested me, and it has the same problem.

$ totem /media/34F7-79FD/11-Music-Painter\ \(medium\).ogg

Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 101 error_code 11 request_code 131 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
function.)
aborting...
aborted 


Is this output helping somehow? Is there a way I can help out to fix it?

Regards,

> 
> Regards,
> Peter
>