[Ekiga-list] Creative Optia problems

[Ben Jencks]

Thanks for your quick response, that fixed the memory usage
problem. However, now I get no picture at all, just a grey
space. General History says
16:49:36 Successfully opened video device Live! Cam Optia, channel 0
and the active light on the camera is on. Using the configuration
druid's test device button, I get
Failed to open the device

Could not open the chosen channel with the chosen video format.

I realize this isn't very much information, I'm happy to provide more if
you tell me how to get it.
-Ben

yannick <sevmek at free.fr> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maybe it will be better with those packages :
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Linux_Users#Feisty_i386
>
> Regards,
> Yannick
>
> Le mercredi 04 juillet 2007 à 14:05 -0700, Ben Jencks a écrit :
>> First, my setup:
>> 
>>  * Ubuntu Feisty, with included kernel and uvcvideo module
>>  * Creative Labs Live! Cam Optia
>>  * Ekiga 2.0.9, OPAL 2.2.8, PWLib 1.10.7, all built from source from
>>    Ekiga website. I had to hack the PWLib configure script in order to
>>    enable V4L2 [1], this may be related to the problems.
>> 
>> The problems:
>> When I start Ekiga, it immediately uses massive amounts of memory (1G
>> virtual, 750M resident according to top), causing a delay while
>> everything else is swapped out.
>> 
>> The video display shows the initial view of the webcam. The very top
>> portion of the image shows motion, but most of the image is static.
>> 
>> The camera works with kdetv (V4L2 driver) and luvcview, though I haven't
>> managed to get xawtv working.
>> 
>> Has anyone managed to get this camera working with ekiga?
>> 
>> [1] Without this patch, config.log reported
>> 
>> configure:4313: checking for linux/videodev2.h
>> configure:4344: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
>> In file included from conftest.c:21:
>> /usr/include/linux/time.h:10: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'time_t'
>> /usr/include/linux/time.h:16: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'time_t'
>> 
>> --- plugins/configure.orig      2007-07-04 13:58:18.000000000 -0700
>> +++ plugins/configure   2007-07-04 00:38:59.000000000 -0700
>> @@ -4321,10 +4321,10 @@
>>  cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
>>  cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
>>  /* end confdefs.h.  */
>> -
>> +$ac_includes_default
>>  #ifdef __linux__
>> -#include <linux/types.h>
>> -#include <linux/time.h>
>> +// #include <linux/types.h>
>> +// #include <linux/time.h>
>>  #else
>>  #ifdef __sun
>>  #include <sys/types.h>
>> 
>> -Ben Jencks
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