It's been a while since I tried to get the microdia drivers working. I
recently upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid and thought I'd give it another
go and HEY!!! I wasn't getting the insmod errors I used to get.
Everything built and installed fine and dmesg output looked promising.
I have managed to get the camera working in mplayer using the suggest
command:
$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so mplayer tv:// \
-tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=25:device=/dev/video0 -vo
x11
However Cheese, Camorama and Skype don't want to play the game.
Camorama says:
Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0). Please check
connection.
Cheese shows the Microdia USB driver in the Preferences | camera
dropdown, but doesn't display any picture.
Skype also shows the Microdia driver in the available webcams
dropdown, but when pressing "Test", displays no picture.
Any tips on getting the webcam working in other apps?
Some potentially useful output:
[dmesg]
[996226.527804] microdia: Microdia USB 2.0 Webcam - 0C45:624F plugged-
in.
[996226.527807] microdia: Detected SN9C20X Bridge
[996226.571884] microdia: Detected OV9650 Sensor
[996226.662227] microdia: Microdia USB 2.0 Webcam is now controlling
video device /dev/video0
[lsusb]
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0c45:624f Microdia PC Camera (SN9C201)
[lsusb -d 0c45:624f -v] (truncated)
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0c45:624f Microdia PC Camera (SN9C201)
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0c45 Microdia
idProduct 0x624f PC Camera (SN9C201)
bcdDevice 1.01
iManufacturer 0
iProduct 1
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 279
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)
MaxPower 500mA
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