Hi Paolo, On Thursday 14 April 2011 12:09:21 Paolo Casaschi wrote: > hello. I have an issue with a netbook webcam that used to work > perfectly with uvcvideo on debian squeeze. > > suddenly, the webcam is not working anymore. the webcam is recognized, > the device is created in /dev but no video is received. > > lsusb identifies the webcam as > > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:5606 ALi Corp. M5606 Video CameraController > [UVC] > > issue is that, if I remember correctly, the webcam used to be > identified with differnt codes, going by memory lsusb used to report > it as "Acer something" with different id numbers. > I havent changed any driver/firmware/BIOS or anything like that recently. > > Any advise how to try getting the webcam back to work? > > So far I tried resetting the system controller of the netbook (an MSI > WIND U100) and repeadetly switching the webcam on/off (the hardware > key Fn-F6 to toggle the webcam still works, I can see the webcam in > and out in lsusb). > > Any advise before assuming some kind of hardware failure?
Could you please post the output of lsusb -v -d 0402:5606 (running as root if possible) ? -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list Linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
