Hi Gabriel,

On Monday 11 February 2008, Udrescu Gabriel Florin wrote:
> Hello there!
> I've got a problem with my newly bought Acer laptop. I've managed to make
> almost everything work, except my Acer Crystal Eye Webcam. Following this
> solution (
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linux-uvc-devel/2007-November/002394.html
>) I've managed to make it run with Kopete. Skype still does not initialize
> it, although he finds it on /dev/video0 and recognizes its name (Acer
> CrystalEye Webcam). Neither Adobe Flash doesn't work with it.
> I've got the latest Linux-UVC running, compilled from the SVN trunk. the
> revision i've got it's r177. I'm running Mandriva 2008 with the following
> kernel :
> Linux localhost 2.6.22.12-laptop-1mdv #1 SMP Tue Nov 20 09:05:54 EST 2007
> i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58 GNU/Linux
>
> lsusb says this :
> lsusb
> Unknown line at line 2389
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0102
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> and lsusb's more verbose output is the one you can find here :
> http://pastebin.com/f4542003d
>
> down here, you can find a little information related to this webcam from my
> syslog :
>
> Feb 11 15:53:46 localhost kernel: uvcvideo: Failed to query (130) UVC
> control 1 (unit 0) : 2 (exp. 26).
> Feb 11 15:55:27 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> Feb 11 15:55:57 localhost last message repeated 15 times
> Feb 11 15:56:28 localhost kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver
> uvcvideo
> Feb 11 16:02:44 localhost kernel: uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer
> Crystal Eye webcam  (5986:0102)
> Feb 11 16:02:44 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
> uvcvideo
> Feb 11 16:02:44 localhost kernel: USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)

The message should be "USB Video Class driver (SVN r177)". Please make sure 
you're not using an older driver supplied with your distribution. Remove all 
occurrences of uvcvideo.ko in /lib/modules/<kernel version> and reinstall it 
from SVN.

> Feb 11 16:02:47 localhost kernel: uvcvideo: Failed to query (130) UVC
> control 1 (unit 0) : 2 (exp. 26).
> Feb 11 16:19:57 localhost kernel: uvcvideo: Failed to query (130) UVC
> control 1 (unit 0) : 2 (exp. 26).

Those messages should go away with r177.

> Feb 11 16:23:02 localhost urpmi: called with: svn
> Feb 11 16:24:24 localhost rpmdrake[10276]: opening the RPM database
> Feb 11 16:24:38 localhost rpmdrake: transaction on / (remove=0, install=0,
> upgrade=4)
> Feb 11 16:24:39 localhost rpmdrake[10276]: [RPM]
> libapr1-1.2.11-1mdv2008.0installed
> Feb 11 16:24:39 localhost rpmdrake[10276]: [RPM]
> libapr-util1-1.2.10-1mdv2008.0 installed
> Feb 11 16:24:40 localhost rpmdrake[10276]: [RPM]
> libsvn0-1.4.5-5mdv2008.0installed
> Feb 11 16:24:41 localhost rpmdrake[10276]: [RPM]
> subversion-1.4.5-5mdv2008.0installed
> Feb 11 16:24:43 localhost rpmdrake[10276]: opening the RPM database
> Feb 11 16:26:26 localhost kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver
> uvcvideo
> Feb 11 16:26:53 localhost kernel: uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer
> Crystal Eye webcam  (5986:0102)
> Feb 11 16:26:53 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
> uvcvideo
> Feb 11 16:26:53 localhost kernel: USB Video Class driver (SVN r177)
> Feb 11 16:27:47 localhost kernel: uvcvideo: device Acer Crystal Eye webcam
> requested null bandwidth, defaulting to lowest.
> Feb 11 16:28:08 localhost kernel: uvcvideo: device Acer Crystal Eye webcam
> requested null bandwidth, defaulting to lowest.
> Feb 11 16:31:37 localhost kernel: restoring control 00000000-0000-0000-0000
> -000000000101/0/2
> Feb 11 16:31:37 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/1/3
> Feb 11 16:31:37 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/2/6
> Feb 11 16:31:37 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/3/7
> Feb 11 16:31:37 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/5/9
> Feb 11 16:31:45 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/0/2
> Feb 11 16:31:45 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/1/3
> Feb 11 16:31:45 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/2/6
> Feb 11 16:31:45 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/3/7
> Feb 11 16:31:45 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/5/9
> Feb 11 16:38:43 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/0/2
> Feb 11 16:38:43 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/1/3
> Feb 11 16:38:43 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/2/6
> Feb 11 16:38:43 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/3/7
> Feb 11 16:38:43 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/5/9
> Feb 11 16:39:20 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/0/2
> Feb 11 16:39:20 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/1/3
> Feb 11 16:39:20 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/2/6
> Feb 11 16:39:20 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/3/7
> Feb 11 16:39:20 localhost kernel: restoring control
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000101/5/9
>
> you can tell me if you need more informations. i make a promise that as
> soon as i get this webcam work well, I'll write a walkthrough for other
> people that face the same problem.

I'll try to remember that :-)

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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