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Kyvou

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Registered: 2011-01-31

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Logitech QuickCam Express

Linux newbie here...

I'm using an ancient Compaq 7110US series computer
1.3ghz AMD Athlon... 512KB DDR2 ram... woo. Because this thing is so ancient, I decided to experiment with Linux and try to get comfortable with the OS... figuring... hell, if any harm is done to this thing, it's old and on its last stand anyway. Why not have a little fun first.

The real problem I've been having is...

I had a friend of mine hand me an Arch Linux install disc. I ran it, had a few problems here and there because I was using a wireless card instead of using the CAT5 and being directly plugged in... but when I went to go use my webcam, I'm having a damn hard time trying to get the thing to work right. I've tried using the Arch Linux wiki, and the language might as well be in some dead language that no one knows about, because when I can't directly ask someone a question, I have a hard time learning or even remembering what to do! I'm using a Logitech QuickCam Express.

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 046d:0870 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0451:2036 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2036 Hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 049f:000e Compaq Computer Corp. Internet Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 08e6:0432 Gemplus GemPC432 SmartCard Reader

dmesg|tail -20
gspca: URB error -84, resubmitting
gspca: URB error -84, resubmitting
gspca: URB error -84, resubmitting
gspca: URB error -84, resubmitting
gspca: URB error -84, resubmitting
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
STV06xx: Disconnecting the stv06xx device
gspca: video0 disconnect
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
STV06xx: Probing for a stv06xx device
gspca: probing 046d:0870
STV06xx: Configuring camera
STV06xx: HDCS-1020 sensor detected
STV06xx: Initializing camera
input: STV06xx as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.3/usb2/2-1/input/input7
gspca: video1 created
gspca: video0 released
Colour QuickCam for Video4Linux v0.06
gspca: bandwidth not wide enough - trying again
gspca: no transfer endpoint found

HELP! This thing is driving me -insane- and I have no idea how to fix what I did! At one point I was able to see myself in Cheese... I couldn't edit the webcam properties, record, but I could see myself on the screen. Then when I go to use any client that asks for a webcam like Skype, it isn't even detected.

Last edited by Kyvou (2011-01-31 02:16:05)

skottish

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

Welcome to the forums Kyvou.

Does this help?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=766002

Kyvou

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

The USB camera is plugged directly into the computer.

ralvez

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

what the result of lsmod?
BTW use  tags to post your code. Makes for shorter pages.

R

Kyvou

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

[root@Tartarus ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
c_qcam                  8408  0 
v4l2_common             5603  1 c_qcam
uvcvideo               54705  0 
ipv6                  244945  10 
snd_seq_dummy           1079  0 
snd_seq_oss            25040  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      4528  1 snd_seq_oss
arc4                    1070  2 
nvidia               4659941  22 
snd_seq                41688  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
ecb                     1589  2 
snd_pcm_oss            33694  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14654  1 snd_pcm_oss
usbhid                 32169  0 
hid                    60432  1 usbhid
gspca_stv06xx          22154  0 
gspca_main             20604  1 gspca_stv06xx
videodev               56947  4 c_qcam,v4l2_common,uvcvideo,gspca_main
v4l1_compat            13530  2 uvcvideo,videodev
rtl8180                26101  0 
snd_ens1371            15724  0 
mac80211              174591  1 rtl8180
gameport                6917  1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi            15288  1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device          4369  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
eeprom_93cx6             996  1 rtl8180
snd_ac97_codec         87943  1 snd_ens1371
amd76x_edac             1961  0 
uhci_hcd               19091  0 
cfg80211              123302  2 rtl8180,mac80211
edac_core              28982  1 amd76x_edac
ac97_bus                 762  1 snd_ac97_codec
ehci_hcd               32908  0 
via686a                 8163  0 
snd_pcm                59136  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec
i2c_viapro              4899  0 
shpchp                 23037  0 
amd_k7_agp              4392  1 
ppdev                   4862  0 
snd_timer              15583  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
usbcore               115866  7 uvcvideo,usbhid,gspca_stv06xx,gspca_main,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
parport_pc             27832  1 
evdev                   6692  6 
agpgart                22816  2 nvidia,amd_k7_agp
i2c_core               15762  4 v4l2_common,nvidia,videodev,i2c_viapro
psmouse                49765  0 
snd                    43219  10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
pci_hotplug            21523  1 shpchp
lp                      6652  0 
processor              22776  0 
thermal                 9690  0 
pcspkr                  1359  0 
sg                     21028  0 
button                  3746  0 
soundcore               4929  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          5981  1 snd_pcm
rfkill                 12854  1 cfg80211
serio_raw               3566  0 
parport                25499  4 c_qcam,ppdev,parport_pc,lp
ext2                   55656  3 
mbcache                 4298  1 ext2
sd_mod                 24384  5 
sr_mod                 13217  0 
cdrom                  31378  1 sr_mod
pata_acpi               2308  0 
pata_via                6563  4 
libata                140308  2 pata_acpi,pata_via
floppy                 48264  0 
scsi_mod              106955  4 sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,libata

Sorry

ralvez

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

OK. As far as I can see you seem to have all you need to have the video camera working.
Now ... there are some chipsets that are not Linux friendly. Did you know that?
There is a site that you may find useful here: http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~mdille3/doc/linux_cameras/
Notice in that site a link to another web site that talks about supported and not so well supported video cams. Take a look and see if there is a work around for yours and go from there.

Hope this helps.

Kyvou

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

[root@Tartarus Desktop]# cd qc-usb-0.6.6
[root@Tartarus qc-usb-0.6.6]# make all
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/build/include/linux/version.h' for reading (No such file or directory)
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected
cc -I/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/build/include -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DNOKERNEL -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -DHAVE_UTSRELEASE_H= -pipe -c qc-driver.c
In file included from qc-driver.c:47:0:
quickcam.h:79:28: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [qc-driver.o] Error 1
[root@Tartarus qc-usb-0.6.6]# 

I got this when I went to use make.

ralvez

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

Are you trying to compile a module for your camera?
Because that's what it looks like.
... and if that is what you are doing you just need to do:
pacman qc-usb-messenger and it will be installed for you.

R.

edit: some bad typing

Last edited by ralvez (2011-01-31 02:56:39)

Kyvou

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

I used pacman -S qc-usb-messenger but my webcam is still not detected by any programs. Now I can't see myself through Cheese, and Skype *still*doesn't detect a webcam.

Edit: I have that same problem from time to time. 

Last edited by Kyvou (2011-01-31 03:01:38)

ralvez

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

OK. Take a look here: http://home.mag.cx/messenger/
That's the developer of the driver for  you web cam. See if you find any valuable info.

Did you find any support info specific to your web cam in the other site I sent?

R

Kyvou

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

It says that my camera is supported and downloading the .tar and making it would fix the problem... but...

The second link is for QuickCam Messenger and I am using an Express. According to what I've read so far, the Messenger is the buggy one, but I shouldn't be having problems with Express.

The first link is basically downloading the .tar instead of using pacman from what I gathered. Unless I'm missing something, the qc-usb driver has been known to allow this webcam to work.

Kyvou

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Re: Logitech QuickCam Express

Is there something i'm missing? Not aware of? Or does it just not -work-? I don't understand where the problem is coming from T-T