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#1 2008-03-26 20:49:59

splitbrain
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Registered: 2008-03-26
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Skype + EeePC Webcam

Hi!

I successfully installed Arch on my EeePC using dkite's modules. I'm now trying to get the webcam working in Skype but without success so far.

This is what I get in the console when testing the cam in the Skype options:

Skype V4L2: Could not find a suitable capture format
Skype V4L2: Could not find a suitable capture format
Starting the process...
Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 17
Skype XShm: XShm support enabled
Skype Xv: Using Xv port 86
Skype Xv: No suitable overlay format found

These are the installed packages that might be of interest:

acpid_eee 0.0.3-1
eeemodules 0.0.3-4
skype-staticqt 2.0.0.63-1
xf86-video-intel 2.2.1-2

Oh and, yes I enabled the camera with "echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera"

Any ideas what I'm missing?

Andi

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#2 2008-03-27 00:38:31

toofishes
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Registered: 2006-06-06
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Re: Skype + EeePC Webcam

Have you tried using luvcview to see if your camera can view anything at all?

luvcview -f yuv I believe, once you get it built/installed from AUR.

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#3 2008-03-27 00:54:42

splitbrain
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Registered: 2008-03-26
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Re: Skype + EeePC Webcam

Took me a bit to get that compiled... looks like there's something wrong in general:

$ luvcview -f yuv
luvcview version 0.2.1 
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
video /dev/video0 
Unable to set format: 22.
 Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal

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#4 2008-03-27 12:51:12

splitbrain
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Re: Skype + EeePC Webcam

Hmm when running luvcview without the -f yuv switch it does work! Any ideas what's going on here?

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#5 2008-03-27 23:09:30

splitbrain
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Posts: 11

Re: Skype + EeePC Webcam

Got it! The solution was at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:webcamdead

Turned out that I changed a BIOS option when I tried booting from my USB stick. Interesting that this setting influences the camera.

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