Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting and Motioneye camera in Sony Vaio not working

[Benedek Frank <bence celifornia com>]

On Friday 03 June 2005 10:04, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 juin 2005 à 23:59 +0200, Benedek Frank a écrit :
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a Debian Sarge with 2.6.11 kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-C1VRX/K
> > laptop. It has a Motioneye camera built in, that works with many
> > video4linux apps, like Xawtv, Effecttv, etc. When I try to make
> > gnomemeeting work with this camera, I get an error saying:
> >
> > When I use the config tool it prompts me to select the video manager. I
> > have only one reasonable option which is not (picture) and that is V4L2.
> > When I
>
> I guess there is a bug in the package. Just do 'apt-get install
> libpt-plugins-v4l' and choose V4L as plugin.
>
> V4L2 is unstable and basically rarely usable as most drivers are still
> V4L1- based (like it is the case for you).
Hi

Great, it works already.

Thanks for all the help, I am happy again with my Picturebook.

Ben

>
> > choose this, I click forward I can select Input Device. Two choices
> > are /dev/video0 and /dev/video0. Yes the two are the same. No matter
> > which of the two I choose, when I click on test, it says Error while
> > opening /dev/video0
> >
> > When I run xawtv with the following command
> >
> > ben vaio:~$ xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 320x240
> >
> > I can see the output of the camera.
> >
> > Now all of this was done when I load the "meye" module by forcing to use
> > V4L1, otherwise even xawtv doesnt work.
> >
> > When I dont do that, and I load the "meye" module as default with V4L2
> > support, I get a different error from gnomemeeting,
> >
> > "Your driver doesn't seem to support any of the colour formats supported
> > by GnomeMeeting.
> >  Please check your kernel driver documentation in order to determine
> > which Palette is supported."
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ben
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