[Ekiga-list] Ekiga 3.2.5 fails to use wy USB webcam from Eeepc

[Frédéric Boiteux <fboiteux calistel com>]

	Hello,

  I have an Asus Eeepc 1002HA with an integrated webcam. I've installed
a Debian Lenny (stable) system, with a newer 2.6.30 kernel, and the
webcam, an USB one, is well detected :

$ lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05e3:0505 Genesys Logic, Inc. 
...

[    8.741399] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    8.768170] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 Camera
(05e3:0505) [    8.858449] input: HDA Digital PCBeep
as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input8 [    8.911935] input:
USB 2.0 Camera
as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/input/input9
[    8.916199] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    8.918638] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0) [

The camera works with applications like 'camorama' or 'cheese', but
doesn't work with 'ekiga' (nor 'xawtv') : In Ekiga, it's well detected,
but it can't use it, so displaying bouncing ball instead.

I've tried to build the latest released version of Ekiga, the 3.2.5,
from Debian Unstable's package source on Lenny (along with new ptlib
and opal libraries), the new Ekiga doesn't work either with this camera.

I've search a bit about Ekiga and this camera, and other Debian Eeepc
users told me they have the same problem (and are interested resolving
it !)

Here is a part of the debug trace of old Lenny Ekiga (2.0.12), referring to the webcam initialization :

2009/07/29 11:28:27.815   0:01.838                              Detecting V4L2 devices
2009/07/29 11:28:27.816   0:01.839                              PV4L2Plugin     detected device metadata at /sys/class/video4linux/
2009/07/29 11:28:27.840   0:01.863      Opal Garbage:0xb569db90 SIP     MONITOR:transactions=0,connections=0
2009/07/29 11:28:27.896   0:01.919                              PVidInDev       Open()  videoFd:-1
2009/07/29 11:28:27.896   0:01.919                              PVidInDev       Close() videoFd:-1  started:0
2009/07/29 11:28:27.896   0:01.920                              Detecting V4L2 devices
2009/07/29 11:28:27.897   0:01.920                              PV4L2Plugin     detected device metadata at /sys/class/video4linux/
2009/07/29 11:28:27.978   0:02.001                              PVidInDev       Open()  devName:/dev/video0  videoFd:-1
2009/07/29 11:28:27.997   0:02.021                              VideoInputDevice        S_STD failed : Argument invalide
2009/07/29 11:28:28.063   0:02.086                              PVidDev SetColourFormatConverter success for native YUV420P
2009/07/29 11:28:28.092   0:02.115                              PVidDev SetFrameSize to 352x288
2009/07/29 11:28:28.267   0:02.290                              PreviewManager  Starting Preview

I didn't find equivalent error messages in Ekiga 3.2.5's log.


What could I do to help you, Ekiga devs, to make it work with this
camera ?

  Thanks for any tip !

	Fred.