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#1 2018-04-01 04:50:34

chrisco23
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Registered: 2017-12-13
Posts: 106

Gigaware 250-157 VGA Webcam with Mic not working w/Skype nor cheese

I haven't set up my old USB webcam in some time, not since I moved my local machines from Ubuntu to Arch.

At the moment I'm getting "No device found" from cheese, and only black screen from skype (skypeforlinux), but it did come up on cheese for a bit (see below)!

I believe it is Gigaware 250-157 VGA Webcam with Mic (looks like it on Amazon).

Here is some info from lsmod:

lsmod | grep gspca
gspca_pac7302          20480  0
gspca_main             36864  1 gspca_pac7302
v4l2_common            16384  1 gspca_main
videodev              208896  3 v4l2_common,gspca_pac7302,gspca_main
usbcore               286720  12 usbhid,snd_usb_audio,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,xhci_pci,snd_usbmidi_lib,gspca_pac7302,uas,gspca_main,xhci_hcd,ehci_pci

Strangely, it DID come up on cheese at one point.  I don't think I did anything after except possibly reboot.  Now it just gives "No device found" again.

Here's what I get running 'cheese' from the command line:

$ cheese

(cheese:11206): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:40:59.689: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35: The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length i deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
** Message: 21:40:59.887: cheese-application.vala:211: Error during camera setup: No device found


(cheese:11206): cheese-CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.894: cheese_camera_device_get_name: assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed

(cheese:11206): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.894: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed

(cheese:11206): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.894: g_variant_ref_sink: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:11206): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.894: g_settings_schema_key_type_check: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:11206): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.895: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:11206): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.895: g_settings_set_value: key 'camera' in 'org.gnome.Cheese' expects type 's', but a GVriant of type '(null)' was given

(cheese:11206): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.895: g_variant_unref: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

** (cheese:11206): CRITICAL **: 21:40:59.895: cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion 'device != NULL' failed

in the lsusb output the camera shows as

Bus 007 Device 003: ID 093a:2620 Pixart Imaging, Inc.

I'm out of ideas.  Anybody??

Also, this thing is pretty ancient.  If someone thinks another inexpensive webcam would be a better bet (both in terms of >working< and maybe in terms of quality too), I'm all ears.

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#2 2018-04-02 02:15:33

chrisco23
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Registered: 2017-12-13
Posts: 106

Re: Gigaware 250-157 VGA Webcam with Mic not working w/Skype nor cheese

UPDATE:

Now cheese seems to work with:

alias cheese='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so cheese'

skypeforlinux, I've tried all the various LD_PRELOAD options out there, and still get black screen.

I also tried to install skype-legacy, to no avail:

$ packer -S skype-legacy
                                                                   
Aur Targets    (3): lib32-libmng lib32-qt4 skype-legacy            
Pacman Targets (9): lib32-alsa-lib lib32-dbus lib32-gtk2 lib32-libcups lib32-libpulse lib32-libxss lib32-libxv lib32-openssl lib32-sqlite                                                                
                                                                   
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]                                   
                                                                   
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

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              lib32-flac-1.3.2-1  lib32-fribidi-1.0.1+8+gdf7252b-1
              lib32-gdk-pixbuf2-2.36.11+70+g00e03a272-1
              lib32-gmp-6.1.2-1  lib32-gnutls-3.5.18-1
              lib32-keyutils-1.5.10-1  lib32-krb5-1.16-1
              lib32-libasyncns-0.8+3+g68cd5af-1
              lib32-libdatrie-0.2.10-1  lib32-libidn-1.33-1
              lib32-libldap-2.4.45-1  lib32-libogg-1.3.3-2
              lib32-libsndfile-1.0.28-1  lib32-libtasn1-4.13-1
              lib32-libthai-0.1.27-1  lib32-libvorbis-1.3.6-1
              lib32-libxcomposite-0.4.4-2  lib32-libxft-2.3.2-1
              lib32-libxinerama-1.1.3-2  lib32-libxtst-1.2.3-1
              lib32-nettle-3.4-1  lib32-p11-kit-0.23.10-1
              lib32-pango-1.42.0-1  lib32-alsa-lib-1.1.5-1
              lib32-dbus-1.12.6-1  lib32-gtk2-2.24.32-1
              lib32-libcups-2.2.7-1  lib32-libpulse-11.1-1
              lib32-libxss-1.2.2-2  lib32-libxv-1.0.11-1
              lib32-openssl-1:1.1.0.g-1  lib32-sqlite-3.22.0-1

Total Download Size:    7.81 MiB
Total Installed Size:  26.72 MiB

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==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...
The build failed.
Dependencies for `skype-legacy' are not met, not building...

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