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berserk9779

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Registered: 2013-09-28

Posts: 1

Webcam installation issue

I have installed Arch on my desktop just recently, after using it for a while on my work laptop. I have a "cheap" webcam that I am trying to get to work, with no luck.

lsusb returns the following for the cam:

Bus 006 Device 005: ID 0ac8:3420 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Venus USB2.0 Camera

dmesg shows that the system sees the peripherial but cannot start it:

[  935.025052] usb 6-5: USB disconnect, device number 4
[  936.574766] usb 6-5: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[  936.712389] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Vimicro USB 2.0 PC Camera (Venus) (0ac8:3420)
[  936.712584] uvcvideo: No streaming interface found for terminal 3.
[  936.712724] input: Vimicro USB 2.0 PC Camera (Venu as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb6/6-5/6-5:1.0/input/input15

There is no /dev/video nor /dev/video0

The proper driver seems to be installed:

grep -i 0ac8 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 3420
lib/modules/3.10.13-1-lts/modules.alias:alias usb:v0AC8p3420d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00in* uvcvideo
/lib/modules/3.11.2-1-ARCH/modules.alias:alias usb:v0AC8p3420d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip00in* uvcvideo

I am out of ideas, can anyone help?

PS: I forgot to mention that this webcam was working on linux fedora OOTB, and that I have googled wide and far.

Last edited by berserk9779 (2013-09-28 18:32:26)

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,152

Re: Webcam installation issue

Welcome to Arch's forums.

Is the module being loaded? If not, try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/We … our_webcam.

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