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bahramwhh

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Registered: 2011-02-12

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] v4l can't open my laptop webcam after kernel upgrade 3.1.3

Hi,
My laptop (vaio z) webcam was perfectly working until kernel 3.1.3 upgrade !
I get this error using cheese application :

libv4l2: error turning on stream: No space left on device

and I get this error using gstreamer-settings:

Video for Linux 2 (v4l2): Error starting streaming on device '/dev/video0'.

here is my lsusb output :

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:18b5 Ricoh Co., Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 147e:1000 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Optical Mouse

and my user is part of video group!

thanks in advance ...

Last edited by bahramwhh (2011-12-03 14:11:19)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [SOLVED] v4l can't open my laptop webcam after kernel upgrade 3.1.3

good thing that we have kernel 3.1.4 since 29 november

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bahramwhh

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Registered: 2011-02-12

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] v4l can't open my laptop webcam after kernel upgrade 3.1.3

Well done ! problem solved after upgrading to 3.1.4.
Thanks wonder