Hi John,

On Friday 30 November 2007, John Bro wrote:
> Hello folks;
>
> I just joined after extensive googling and finally finding the message
> here that the Hercules Dualpix worked with skype, and indeed it does (skype
> 2.0b that is..)
>
> Now, I  have compiled and installed uvcvideo, V4L and just about anything
> vaguely related from apt-get on my Debian lenny 2.6.22-3-k7
> But Ekiga still says  my video driver doesn't support the requested format.

Try upgrading to a more recent Ekiga version, and make sure you have installed 
the libpt-plugins-v4l2  package.

> And camorama says my /dev/video0/ is not there when it most certainly is
> -- and it sure looks like a device; too.? 

Camorama doesn't support V4L2 so it won't work with the UVC driver.

> Should my webcam work outside of skype ?

Your webcam should work with any video software that supports V4L2.

> When I plug it in, I get "cannot get freq at ep 0x84 which seems to be a
> common problem with webcams but which means nothing to me..

That error is related to the usbaudio module and should not affect the video 
driver.

> Elsewhere it was suggested that reloading the module with trace=15 might
> help.. it didn't for me..

Setting trace to 15 prints more debugging messages to the kernel log but 
shouldn't affect the driver's behaviour (except maybe for some border-line 
timing related problems).

> Although I am a linux user since RedHat 3, I am still no guru, especially
> with drivers and modules, and even less with video; so let's not ignore the
> basics.. I may be missing something fundamental..
>
> I can send usb logs and lsusb output and all if useful, but I thought I
> would just ask first, can I get my cam to work in other linux apps or only
> skype for now ?

Camorama won't work, but Ekiga should. It will probably work if you upgrade to 
a more recent version. You might have to upgrade libpt too.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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