Comment 0 for bug 331014

The UVC video driver lacks the VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl and this limits the software it can work with.

This problem can easily be reproduced as follows. Note the error it gets for the VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl.

dcampbel@vostro:~$ hasciicam
HasciiCam 0.9.1 - (h)ascii 4 the masses! - http://ascii.dyne.org
(c)2000-2003 Denis Rojo < jaromil @ dyne.org >
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Device detected is /dev/video0
Integrated Webcam
1 channels detected
max size w[1280] h[1024] - min size w[48] h[32]
Video capabilities:
VID_TYPE_CAPTURE can capture to memory
!! error in ioctl VIDIOCGMBUF: : Invalid argument

This is a right-up-to-date Intrepid....

root@vostro:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10