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Hey folks,
I just moved to Arch64 and tried to make my webcam work again. I've been
using it on my old system quite a long time ago and I was quite puzzled when
I found out that it apparently won't work with the new system.
The webcam is a
ID 0c45:613b Microdia Win2 PC Camera
and last time it worked quite well with the sn9c102 driver.
When not loading any module manually dmesg gives following output
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
sn9c102: V4L2 driver for SN9C1xx PC Camera Controllers v1:1.47pre49
usb 3-1: SN9C120 PC Camera Controller detected (vid:pid 0x0C45:0x613B)
usb 3-1: No supported image sensor detected for this bridge
usbcore: registered new interface driver sn9c102
Because of the changes in webcam support since kernel 2.6.27 I tried to
blacklist the sn9c102 module and included gspca_main in the MODULES array in
/etc/rc.conf.
This resulted in following dmesg output
usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
The webcam won't give an image either way.
Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this issue?
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What's your lsusb output?
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
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The webcam related part looks like this:
ID 0c45:613b Microdia Win2 PC Camera
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I had a similar problem to yours, check out this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75259
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
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Hey,
unfortunately the webcam won't work even after following your recommendations. After all dmesg gives the following output:
usbcore: registered new interface driver sn9c20x
sn9c20x: SN9C20x USB 2.0 Webcam Driver v2009.04 loaded
usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 7-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Any ideas?
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Hmm.. the driver is loaded which means that it should work. Do you have permission to run the webcam?
sudo gpasswd -a <username> video
chmod 666 /dev/video0
And then try running it on cheese.
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
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Hey,
thanks for your help!
I'm already a member of the video group. I don't know why, but no video0 (or video*) shows up in /dev when plugging the webcam in...
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Try running this:
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe sn9c20x
Then try running cheese
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
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Did it.
Without modprobing videodev nothing happened. So I tried to modprobe videodev and sn9c20x again which lead to the same result as above...
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