1.1b43

[Peter Vendlegård]

Toast 6.0.7 crashed on launch with this and the b42 driver. That is not  
good.


On 3 feb 2005, at 05.34, Steve Sisak wrote:

> At 7:54 PM -0800 2/2/05, Hans Tobeason wrote:
>> Well, that didn't go well.  I downloaded the debug beta, installed,  
>> and checked that both my Fire-i cameras were recognized using Camera  
>> Identifier - Debug, which they were.
>
> OK, first don't use the debug version unless you have a good reason to  
> (read have the source and are using gdb) -- it's unoptomized and gcc  
> generates some really horrible code for parts of the driver without  
> optimization.
>
> The logging version is fully optimized except for the extra logging  
> code and should perform acceptably.
>
>> Then, I launched SecuritySpy.  That's when things went south.  I had  
>> to do a bit of dicking around is SS in order to get it to _not_  
>> recognize the OS X drivers.  Once I did that for the first camera, SS  
>> started to eat up a lot of CPU cycles.  I then tried to get the  
>> second camera activated.  My machine locked up - the cursor was still  
>> active, but everything else was frozen solid.
>
> I need to get a copy of SecuritySpy to test -- will follow up tomorrow.
>
> I see a couple interesting things in the logs -- one of them is that  
> it looks like both cameras are trying to talk on isoch channel 0,  
> which may or may not be a bug, depending on wether they are running at  
> the same time.
>
>>   I waited 5 minutes.  No change.  I rebooted using the dreaded  
>> reboot button.  I relaunched SS.  It saw the first camera, but  
>> started sucking just about all of my CPU.  I had to quit it, and  
>> remove the IOXperts drivers.
>
> Did you try switching to another application (the Dock sometimes  
> works) then kill SecuritySpy with cmd-opt-esc?
>
> Everything we do is in user space, so it shouldn't be possible for us  
> to crash more than the application we're running in. (Note that I said  
> "shouldn't", not "isn't")
>
>> Just one person's (sad) tale.
>>
>> PowerMac G4 450 AGP 768Mb RAM OS X 10.3.7
>>
>> Here's the debug log, if it can help:
>
> Actually, it does.
>
> Can you verify that you don't have any pieces of the old driver  
> installed.
>
> Also, switch back to the logging driver if you can.
>
> -Steve
>
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MVH,

Peter Vendlegård
p.vendlegard at bredband.net