Ok, so this is the weirdest thing...

I installed wireshark on my linux laptop and added myself to the wireshark group so I could do packet captures.  I then restarted the computer and tried doing a packet capture of a frame and... it worked just fine.  No weird blank lines, no crashing, no problems at all as far as I can see.  I have spent the last 20 minutes or so in ekos capturing images and after aproximately 100 frames it hasn't crashed or had any problems at all.  I have no idea why it suddenly started working, other than that restarting may have reset something, but in any case everything seems to be working just fine now.  I did one frame with wireshark running and the rest with wireshark still open but not capturing.

So other than changing the pixel size to 8.3 on the Y axis, it doesn't look like there are any changes to make at this time.  (Oh, probably should remove the "guess" on the USB id so it doesn't cause problems for users of that other camera, but that's unrelated to the issues I had).

I'm going to try to get it outside tonight and take some pictures with the telescope, but as of right now it seems to be working just fine.  Thanks for all of your work on the driver, Ben.  I will try to post a couple pictures and an update after tonight if I get a "second first light" from this camera running on fully open source code.  :)

-Andrew Buck

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