Hi Chris, On Monday 07 December 2009 09:19:54 Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > I bought a usb2 vga uvc-compliant webcam (arkmicro chipset) today for use > with Skype 2.1 beta on openSUSE 11. When I plug it in I get this in > dmesg... > > usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 > usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=18ec, idProduct=3299
Could you please send me the output of lsusb -v -d 18ec:3299 Thanks. > usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 > usb 4-2: Product: USB2.0 PC CAMERA > usb 4-2: Manufacturer: ARKMICRO > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol v4l_compat_translate_ioctl > uvcvideo: Unknown symbol v4l_compat_translate_ioctl > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_devdata > uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_devdata > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_unregister_device > uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_alloc > uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_register_device > uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_register_device > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_usercopy > uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_usercopy > uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_release > uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_release > > I'm running the latest version of uvcvideo, compiled from source today. No > /dev/video* device is created, and because of that no webcam software can > see the webcam. I do see a new usb audio device (camera's inbuilt mic), > but of course I would prefer if I could get video with that. > > Does anyone have any pointer as to where I can start, to diagnose what > prevents the video from this camera working? Are there some parameters I > can try and pass to the kernel module etc?... The above messages show that you've indeed installed the uvcvideo driver from source, but that the v4l core modules (such as videodev.ko) are still the one bundled with your default kernel. You need to install all the modules from the source tree. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list Linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
