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

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Hi Frédéric,

1. There was a very recent commit which has a fix for some cameras 
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2821189&group_id=204472&atid=989748), 
maybe it fixes for you, could you test the latest svn/git instead of 3.2.5?
2. Could you also install libv4l (not available in stable I think) and 
recompile everything (ptlib/opal/ekiga)?

Thanks,
Eugen

Frédéric Boiteux wrote:
> 	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.
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