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antarbozi

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Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] Webcam not detected.

When I try to use my webcam with a program like cheese, no camera is detected.
This is the dmesg log after I put in the webcam.

usb 2-4: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Last edited by antarbozi (2009-07-03 05:59:29)

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Arch 32-bit
PC: Dell Dimension E520 Intel Pentium D 3GHz HDD 320GB SATA RAM 1GB DDR2 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 256MB
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antarbozi

Member

Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Webcam not detected.

Seeing as the webcam is plugged into usb 2-4 (translated into bus 2 device 4)

After running lsusb I found:

 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0c45:627b Microdia PC Camera (SN9C201 + OV7660)

After googling I found that after running this set of commands the webcam works.

 cd ~/Desktop
mkdir webcam
cd webcam
git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/microdia.git
cd microdia
make
sudo modprobe videodev
sudo modprobe compat-ioctl32 
sudo insmod ./sn9c20x.ko

The module compat-ioctl32 was not found but that doesn't matter as that is only required for 64bit systems.

Then after opening up cheese it worked.

Last edited by antarbozi (2009-07-03 15:39:35)

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Arch 32-bit
PC: Dell Dimension E520 Intel Pentium D 3GHz HDD 320GB SATA RAM 1GB DDR2 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 256MB
Laptop: Dell Studio 15 Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz HDD 500GB SATA RAM 4GB DDR2 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 512MB