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cunik

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Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 6

[solved]webcam - QuickCam Messanger

Hello,
Im sorry that I bother you with such so common issue like is QuickCam Messanger. But it seems like Im missing something important..
I installed community/qc-usb-messenger 1.7-2. When I connect webcam, everything seems to be ok in lsusb:

# lsusb   
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 046d:08da Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Messanger
...

dmesg gives something like that:

# dmesg | tail
quickcam [28.691669]: failed qc_usb_init()=-32
usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 8
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
quickcam: QuickCam USB camera found (driver version QuickCam Messenger/Communicate USB 1.7 $Date: 2007/09/02 00:00:00 $)
quickcam: Kernel:2.6.23-ARCH bus:3 class:FF subclass:FF vendor:046D product:08DA
quickcam [37.300267]: poisoning qc in qc_usb_init
quickcam [37.305752]: Failed qc_stv_set()=-32
quickcam [37.305761]: qc_stv_set STV_ISO_ENABLE=0 failed -32
quickcam [37.305765]: failed qc_usb_init()=-32

no device /dev/video0
from all I have read it seems that it shouldnt be a big deal, install and ready to go?

Last edited by cunik (2008-01-21 18:00:55)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: [solved]webcam - QuickCam Messanger

Lots of Logitech cameras use the linux-uvc-svn driver. If you haven't yet, install it. You should be able to modprobe uvcvideo after that. If it works, add uvcvideo to the modules array in rc.conf.

cunik

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Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 6

Re: [solved]webcam - QuickCam Messanger

# modprobe uvcvideo
# lsmod | grep uvcvideo
uvcvideo               48132  0 
compat_ioctl32          1664  2 uvcvideo,usbvideo
videodev               26880  3 uvcvideo,usbvideo,quickcam
v4l2_common            15872  2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l1_compat            14212  2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbcore               123016  11 uvcvideo,quickcam_messenger,usbvideo,quickcam,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,ohci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

# ls /dev/
0:0:0:0  hvc6       ptmx    sda3        tty18  tty42  ttyS0
1:0:0:0  hvc7       pts     sda4        tty19  tty43  ttyS1
audio    initctl    ram0    sequencer   tty2   tty44  ttyS2
audio1   input      ram1    sequencer2  tty20  tty45  ttyS3
bus      kmem       ram10   sg0         tty21  tty46  urandom
cd       kmsg       ram11   sg1         tty22  tty47  usbdev1.1_ep00
cdrom    kqemu      ram12   shm         tty23  tty48  usbdev1.1_ep81
cdrom0   log        ram13   snapshot    tty24  tty49  usbdev2.1_ep00
cdrw     loop       ram14   snd         tty25  tty5   usbdev2.1_ep81
cdrw0    loop0      ram15   sound       tty26  tty50  usbdev2.3_ep00
console  loop1      ram2    sr0         tty27  tty51  usbdev2.3_ep02
core     loop2      ram3    stderr      tty28  tty52  usbdev2.3_ep81
disk     loop3      ram4    stdin       tty29  tty53  usbdev2.3_ep83
dsp      loop4      ram5    stdout      tty3   tty54  usbdev3.13_ep00
dsp1     loop5      ram6    tpm0        tty30  tty55  usbdev3.13_ep81
dvd      loop6      ram7    tts         tty31  tty56  usbdev3.13_ep82
dvd0     loop7      ram8    tty         tty32  tty57  usbdev3.1_ep00
fb       mem        ram9    tty0        tty33  tty58  usbdev3.1_ep81
fb0      misc       random  tty1        tty34  tty59  usbdev4.1_ep00
fd       mixer      rd      tty10       tty35  tty6   usbdev4.1_ep81
full     mixer1     root    tty11       tty36  tty60  usbdev5.1_ep00
hvc0     null       rtc     tty12       tty37  tty61  usbdev5.1_ep81
hvc1     nvidia0    rtc0    tty13       tty38  tty62  vc
hvc2     nvidiactl  scd0    tty14       tty39  tty63  vcc
hvc3     port       sda     tty15       tty4   tty7   zero
hvc4     ppp        sda1    tty16       tty40  tty8
hvc5     psaux      sda2    tty17       tty41  tty9

Doesnt seem to have affect..

Secagy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 11

Re: [solved]webcam - QuickCam Messanger

Hi
It looks like your webcam is supported by gspcav1 from extra.
Also, make sure your user is member of the group "video".
Good luck!

cunik

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Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 6

Re: [solved]webcam - QuickCam Messanger

Hi
It looks like your webcam is supported by gspcav1 from extra.
Also, make sure your user is member of the group "video".
Good luck!

Thanks a lot!!! Its really working.. That's great..
How is it possible that I missed that driver..
I am much obliged to you.

Kind regards

berrold

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 12

Re: [solved]webcam - QuickCam Messanger

what is a model name for you webcam and id?
thx inadv~