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student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

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[SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

All was Ok yesterday, but today, after updating (with linux kernel) webcam doesn't work. Have tried in Skype and in Kopete configuration. Recording LED does turn on, but there isn't any video. dmesg has

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[    5.573158] snd_hdsp 0000:04:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    5.799123] Linux media interface: v0.10
[    5.801175] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    6.773103] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x86
[    6.917289] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[    6.917291] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0825)
[    6.931921] input: UVC Camera (046d:0825) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input6
[    6.932019] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    6.932022] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[    7.524105] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
...

lsmod:

$ sudo lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
md4                     3593  0 
md5                     2345  2 
hmac                    2985  1 
nls_utf8                1320  1 
cifs                  275990  2 
fscache                41098  1 cifs
ipv6                  288122  33 
lirc_serial             9106  3 
autofs4                23863  2 
lirc_dev                9327  1 lirc_serial
ext2                   63283  1 
uvcvideo               64995  0 
videodev               85100  1 uvcvideo
media                  10565  2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32     8644  1 videodev
snd_usb_audio          93005  0 
snd_usbmidi_lib        18697  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_codec_realtek   282216  1 
snd_hdsp               52439  2 
snd_hda_intel          22410  0 
snd_hda_codec          81242  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
nvidia              12069499  40 
snd_rawmidi            19458  2 snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hdsp
snd_seq_device          5300  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep               6357  3 snd_usb_audio,snd_hdsp,snd_hda_codec
iTCO_wdt               11789  0 
mei                    31195  0 
i2c_i801                8187  0 
evdev                   9530  6 
processor              24224  0 
pcspkr                  1819  0 
serio_raw               4294  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     1961  1 iTCO_wdt
snd_pcm                74368  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hdsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19544  2 snd_pcm
r8169                  45411  0 
i7core_edac            16231  0 
edac_core              37552  3 i7core_edac
it87                   29006  0 
hwmon_vid               3292  1 it87
button                  4470  0 
snd                    58362  13 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hdsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
mii                     4059  1 r8169
coretemp                5891  0 
i2c_core               20460  3 videodev,nvidia,i2c_i801
soundcore               6210  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7153  3 snd_hdsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ext4                  375413  3 
mbcache                 5881  2 ext2,ext4
jbd2                   70667  1 ext4
crc16                   1359  1 ext4
usbhid                 35352  0 
hid                    82435  1 usbhid
sr_mod                 14951  0 
cdrom                  36553  1 sr_mod
sd_mod                 28275  6 
pata_acpi               3376  0 
uhci_hcd               23084  0 
ata_piix               22077  5 
libata                166724  2 pata_acpi,ata_piix
scsi_mod              132730  3 sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd               40730  0 
usbcore               144432  7 uvcvideo,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Where to dig in?

Last edited by student975 (2011-11-29 10:10:29)

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wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

know issue, fixed in 3.1.4

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student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

Posts: 613

Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

know issue, fixed in 3.1.4

Thanks! I'm all in impatience Will mark as solved.

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kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

I just updated the kernel and same problem with web cam and a search leads to this. This is for information.

ppr

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Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

If we want to go back to the previous version avec linux, where can we found the package ? (Unfortunately it's not in the cache)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

you can just get linux 3.1.4 from testing

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student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

Posts: 613

Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

I use another way - linux-ck form AUR (more strictly - from linux-ck repo) - it is 3.1.4 already :-)

Last edited by student975 (2011-11-29 20:46:41)

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ppr

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.1.3 - webcam doesn't work

thanks