Built in camera

[glennzo]

Has anyone been able to get the built in camera on their laptop to work in FC6 or Fedora 7?

[A.Serbinski]

Depends on the camera. Try here; http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html

[glennzo]

Well thank you for the reply. It's a Chicony Electronics USB 2.0 Camera, built in to the top of the laptop. It's not on that list as far as I can tell. Too bad.

[A.Serbinski]

Just remember that the same device may be distributed under MANY different brands. You need to check it by its device ID -- /sbin/lsusb

[glennzo]

[glenn@localhost ~]$ sudo /sbin/lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 045e:00e1 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

What would A. Serbinski do?

[A.Serbinski]

Well thank you for the reply. It's a Chicony Electronics USB 2.0 Camera, built in to the top of the laptop. It's not on that list as far as I can tell. Too bad.

[glenn@localhost ~]$ sudo /sbin/lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 045e:00e1 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

What would A. Serbinski do?

Happen to notice anything about your above two responses? Maybe what I've put in bold? Now you just look up the device ID and find that there is no support for it. Too bad.

[scotta3234]

I got my hp laptop webcam working accidentally by trying the linux-uvc driver. It's a pretty generic driver so it's worth a shot. You can read about it and get it here: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

[glennzo]

Thanks folks. I'll give scotta3234's suggestion and if it doesn't work that will be it. I doesn't matter if it works or not. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[scotta3234]

Yeah pretty much it's usually one or the other... either it will use the spca5xx or generic uvc driver.

[premudriy]

Originally Posted by scotta3234

I got my hp laptop webcam working accidentally by trying the linux-uvc driver. It's a pretty generic driver so it's worth a shot. You can read about it and get it here: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

I'm trying to do the same thing - install Linux-UVC driver, but there's no directions how to install it for Fedora. I'm a newbie BTW...

I've read instructions for installing it on Ubuntu (http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en...buntu_6.06_LTS) and it says that I have to edit a line in the Makefile
from INSTALL_MOD_DIR := usb/media
to INSTALL_MOD_DIR := kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo

but it's for Ubuntu, so the question is what do I change that line to for Fedora? Or do I have to change anything else?

Would you, please tell exactly how you did it?

Thank you very much beforehand!

[scotta3234]

First need to make sure you have kernel-headers, kernel-devel, gcc, and subversion installed. Simply do a yum install subversion, etc. to get those.

Then you need to go to the link I provided and run this command in the terminal to get the uvc driver.

svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk

Then cd into that directory and issue the make and make install.

[pankajp]

Hi,


I've just bought a Zippys Addons Webcam
ID 0ac8:301b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0301 WebCam
It has the sensor TAS5130C.(I saw using RegMon on Windows)
However I installed the gspcav1 drivers (tried both arrpms rpm package and also compiled from source).
But the problem is that all the viewers I tried ( camstream, mplayer, xawtv and spcagui ) display only a blank screen (Completely black output). Also camstream gives seg faults when I try changing the resolution.

This is the dmesg output:

usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 10
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 3-1: ZC0301[P] Image Processor and Control Chip detected (vid/pid 0x0AC8:0x301B)
usb 3-1: No supported image sensor detected
/var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20070508/gspca_core.c: USB GSPCA camera found.(ZC3XX)
/var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20070508/gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_probe:4098] Camera type JPEG
/var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20070508/Vimicro/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:515] Sensor ID:11
/var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20070508/Vimicro/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:525] Find Sensor UNKNOW_0 force Tas5130
/var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20070508/gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1215] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
/var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20070508/gspca_core.c: [gspca_set_isoc_ep:903] ISO EndPoint found 0x81 AlternateSet 7
/var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20070508/gspca_core.c: [gspca_set_isoc_ep:903] ISO EndPoint found 0x81 AlternateSet 7

Also should I try uvc drivers. I am new to this and dont know much (trying to learn)

If someone knows anything about it please help.
Thanks,



I use Fedora 7: uname -a
Linux 10.13.13.38 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Aug 21 22:36:56 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[Stian1979]

Originally Posted by pankajp

Hi,


I've just bought a Zippys Addons Webcam
ID 0ac8:301b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0301 WebCam
It has the sensor TAS5130C.(I saw using RegMon on Windows)
However I installed the gspcav1 drivers (tried both arrpms rpm package and also compiled from source).

Did you try /sbin/modprobe gspca ?

Did you ceck the lists if your camera is suported?

[premudriy]

Originally Posted by scotta3234

First need to make sure you have kernel-headers, kernel-devel, gcc, and subversion installed. Simply do a yum install subversion, etc. to get those.

Then you need to go to the link I provided and run this command in the terminal to get the uvc driver.

svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk

Then cd into that directory and issue the make and make install.

Thanks a lot for your response! It compiled without errors and after a reboot the camera was detected. Unfortunately I could not get any video. I've tried it using several programs with no luck. I've tried:
Ekiga
Xawtv
Kopete
IP Telephony and Video Conference
VLC Player


When I used XawTV the camera's LED was lit up for about a second and then it would go off, but still no video or even a blink of a picture.

Does anyone have any suggestion or something to try out?

I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 (2006 model -> 046d:08ce )

I read that it should be supported by Linux-UVC, but it looks like something is missing here because camera gets detected, but no apps can use it.

Thank you!

[pankajp]

given up.

Thanks for all your help but i couldn't get my webcam working so i've given it to my friend (he's running windows)