Hi Bruce,

On Wednesday 06 May 2009 01:24:25 bruce m beach wrote:
>  Hello
>
>  I have a Suyin crystal eye webcam that lsusb give as
>
>     Bus 004 Device 002: ID 064e:a103 Suyin Corp
>
>  that I have been trying to make work for the last week
>  to no avail. From what I've read this device
>  should be no problem.  What I am getting is as follows:
>
> Luvcview
> --------
> 1) sh-4.0# luvcview -f yuv
>               luvcview version 0.2.1
>               Video driver: x11
>               A window manager is available
>               video /dev/video0
>               Unable to set format: 22.
>               Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal

Your device only supports MJPEG so this is expected.

> 2) sh-4.0# luvcview
>               luvcview version 0.2.1
>               Video driver: x11
>               A window manager is available
>               video /dev/video0
> The green light is  on and I have  a green screen.

This probably means that the driver doesn't receive enough data to fill a 
video frame. Are you running the latest driver ? There is a known bug in older 
versions that cause frames to be incorrectly dropped under specific 
circumstances.

> The application is alive until Play with some of the buttons and I messages
> like
>
>          ioctl querycontrol error 22
>          Set Sharpness down error
>          ioctl querycontrol error 22
>          Set Sharpness down error
> and then it  dies. I have  to use kill -9 to terminate it.
>
> Xawtv
> -----
> sh-4.0# xawtv -v
>           This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.29.2)
>           /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
>           v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>           Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-
> .....
>           ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0xbffca810b7d4e000
> [NTSC_M_JP,?,?,SECAM_G,SECAM_K,SECAM_L,?ATSC_8_VSB,ATSC_16_VSB,(null),(null
>),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(nul
>l),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]): Invalid
> argumen
>
> when I click "Grab image (ppm) or "Grab Image (jpeg)" I get:
>
>     no way to get: 384x288 16 bit TrueColor (LE)
>     no way to get: 2048x1572 24 bit TrueColor (BE: rgb)
>
> Uvccapture
> ----------
> sh-4.0# uvccapture -v
>            Using videodevice: /dev/video0
>            Saving images to: snap.jpg
>            Image size: 320x240
>            Taking snapshot every 0 seconds
>            Taking images using mmap
>            Resetting camera settings
>            ioctl querycontrol error 22
>            Camera brightness level is -20
>            Camera contrast level is 0
>            Camera saturation level is 60
>            ioctl querycontrol error 22
>            Camera gain level is -1
>            Saving image to: snap.jpg
>
> the  green light goes on and off momentarily and gives me the picture
> snap.jpg
> but nothing (xv, gimp, mplayer) seems  to understand what it is. The first
> group of hex chars is
>
>     0d 7c 0c 7f 0d 7b 0f 7d
>
> uname -a gives
>
> Linux lapsystemx 2.6.29.2 #15 PREEMPT Sun May 3 08:09:40 PDT 2009 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> dmesg gives:
>
>   usb 4-1: Product: Crystal Eye webcam
>   usb 4-1: Manufacturer: SuYin
>   usb 4-1: SerialNumber: CN0314-SN30-OV032-VA-R01.00.00
> and
>   uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Crystal Eye webcam (064e:a103)
>   input: Crystal Eye webcam as /class/input/input6
>   usb 4-1: adding 4-1:1.1 (config #1, interface 1)
>
> One thing that puzzles me is that in a letter to Linux-uvc-devel Tue Feb 17
> 19:26:30 CET 2009, thread titled: [Linux-uvc-devel] Device ID of my UVC
> WebCam
> Martin Koller gives lsusb -v as
>
> Bus 004 Device 002: ID 064e:a103 Suyin Corp
>
> which is the same as my webcam but the devices are not the same. Below I
> includea diff of the two listings.

That doesn't surprise me much, vendors often change devices without modifying 
the PID or the version.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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