motion, 2.6, and v4l loopback device [WAS Re: motion - please do a sponsored upload for me (new revision with debconf fix)]
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On Friday 20 August 2004 13:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:18:12AM +0200, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
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> > On Saturday 14 August 2004 03:16, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> > > On Friday 13 August 2004 19:06, Adam Majer wrote:
> > > > Frederik Dannemare wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I was hoping that my previous sponsor of motion would have
> > > > > the time this week to do a new upload which has a couple of
> > > > > very small fixes, but unfortunately I haven't heard from him
> > > > > yet, so I'm really, really
> > > >
> > > > I'll look at it and upload within an hour or so (unless there
> > > > are problems).
> > >
> > > I saw a copy of Frederik's same e-mail in debian-mentors earlier
> > > today and already checked it over and uploaded. My only concern
> > > was that it's not quite up-to-date with the latest upstream
> > > (3.1.14 vs 3.1.16), but since it's a bugfix, I went ahead and
> > > sponsored.
> >
> > When I adopted the package, I chose to update from 3.0.6 to 3.1.14,
> > and not 3.1.15/3.1.16, because I personally feel 3.1.14 is the most
> > stable of them. .15 had a lot of problems, and although .16 fixed
> > much of this, I still feel 3.1.14 is the better choice for the
> > sarge release.
> >
> > Many thanks for the upload, Wesley. I really appreciate it. And
> > thank you, Adam, for once again offering to help me with an upload.
>
> BTW, what is the deal with motion and 2.6 kernels ? I am under the
> understanding that it requires the videoloop or whatever module,
> which is not only abandoned upstream, but also not yet ported to 2.6
> kernels.
I have been using motion and 2.6 without the v4l loopback device. I
don't know much about it, but I think it was initially developed for
debugging motion in real-time or something like that.
Best regards,
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