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greyhat.goon

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

webcam dell m1330

i've got everything going with Arch64 except for the webcam.  The kernel (2.6.26) comes with linux-uvc, but
that doesn't seem to make it fly. 

[campbell@cipher ~]$ dmesg | grep -i video
pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640)
uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26).
usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
input: Video Bus as /class/input/input7
ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
input: Video Bus as /class/input/input8
ACPI: Video Device [VID1] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
input: Video Bus as /class/input/input9
ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)

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piotrk

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From: Raciążek/Poland

Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 52

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Re: webcam dell m1330

try to search here:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: webcam dell m1330

What do you mean it doesn't seam to make it fly? I have the exact same messages in dmesg and my webcam works... Have you tested it with some application like cheese?

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greyhat.goon

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

Re: webcam dell m1330

Sorry for the vague language. The webcam doesn't seem to work.  I've tried cheese, skype and ekiga.  Both skype and ekiga can't find the webcam.

Cheese simply dies when started, here's the output:

[campbell@cipher ~]$ cheese

(cheese:7489): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add_many: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element_1)' failed

(cheese:7489): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_many: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element_1)' failed

(cheese:7489): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads_filtered: assertion `GST_IS_BIN (parent)' failed

** ERROR **: Unable to create video save pipeline
aborting...
Aborted

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