Comment 17 for bug 99180

I actually think this problem is an USB-problem.

My Liteon-stick had the same problems when used with my notebook (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Si 1520). The trick with plugging in the stick and then do a restart worked for me so I did it this way (recompiling V4L broke my webcam).

But on my older desktop the stick works just fine and stable without any restart.

I tried the "solution" to change the V4L-source as well on my notebook. When looking at the device and vendor IDs I recognized that they always changed. So it didn't worked for me to replace them in the source I just de-activated the "exception".

Since changing the device and vendor ID doesn't seem to be a normal behavior for me (and it doesn't happen on my desktop) I think that there is a problem somewhere in the "USB-driver" (or whatever it is called).

Does anyone have an idea why this could happen?