Hi Michael, On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Michael E. Kromer wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:57 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Michael E. Kromer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've just received a new notebook from my employer, and i was > > > trying to get my webcam running, as i would need to use it with > > > ekiga. somehow it simply just doesnt work - maybe its > > > unsupported at the moment? > > > > > > i already tried uvcvideo svn 133, no change. OS is opensuse > > > 10.3 final i586. > > > > > > funny thing although is i get the following (dmesg) with > > > reregistering uvcvideo: > > > > > > usbcore: deregistering interface driver uvcvideo > > > uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer Crystal Eye webcam > > > (5986:0102) > > > usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo > > > USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0) > > > > > > but then, when i try to open it up with ekiga, i simply get > > > (dmesg): > > > > > > uvcvideo: Failed to query (130) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : 2 > > > (exp. 26). > > > > > > i also tried to receive use different webcam software (gqcam, > > > wxcam, for example) - all with same result. > > > > > > i even tried luvcview (manually compiled).. same .. output: > > > > > > uvcview verion 0.1.4 > > > Video driver: x11 > > > A window manager is available > > > video /dev/video0 > > > Unable to set format: 5. > > > Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Any clues? > > > > Please try the attached patch. I'll commit it if it fixes your problem. > > > > Thanks for the detailed report. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Laurent Pinchart > > perfect! runs smoothly and like a charm!
Ok. Committed. > i now can see everything very nice in luvcview - however ekiga cant > handle it - tried but it remains to have no picture ... any suggestion > here? Make sure you're using Ekiga 2.0.3 or newer (from the top of my head). Upgrading to the latest version won't hurt. Check that you selected V4L2 and not V4L in the Ekiga configuration dialog. Does the kernel log report anything wrong when you run Ekiga ? Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
