Bug#499953: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Webcam hangs

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Hi Luis,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:15:52AM +0200, Luis Carlos Oliveira Carvalheiro wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
> Version: 2.6.26-5
> Severity: important
> 
> When I try to use my webcam  (motion eye webcam in a sony vaio 
> vgn-fe41s) with cheese, xawtv and others, sometimes it 
> hangs (webcam light doesn't even turn on) and I get the 
> drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c:137 bug in syslog

The upstream bug tracker contains a patch for this issue:
http://bugs.mediati.org/r5u870/issue19

Can you verify that it fixes the problem for you?

Cheers,
        Moritz