help: logitech quickcam pro 5000 & uvcvideo

[gosh]

Hi,

I have a Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000. This should work with a uvcvideo driver, found here: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

I think I compiled and loaded it properly. My dmesg says:
[4294709.623000] Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[4294709.648000] usbvideo: Probing device 3
[4294709.648000] Format MJPEG found
[4294709.648000] Format Uncompressed found
[4294709.648000] usbvideo: Found a Status endpoint (addr 87).
[4294709.648000] usbvideo: Found UVC device (1.00)
[4294709.648000] usbvideo: Scanning UVC chain: OT 5 <- Unit 4 <- Unit 3 <- Unit 2 <- IT 1
[4294709.648000] usbvideo: Found a valid video chain (1 -> 5).
[4294709.703000] usbvideo: UVC device initialized.
[4294709.703000] usbcore: registered new driver usbvideo
[4294709.703000] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)

and

[4294778.695000] usbvideo: uvc_v4l2_open
[4294778.695000] usbvideo: Unknown ioctl 0x803c7601
[4294781.113000] usbvideo: > uvc_v4l2_release
[4294781.115000] usbvideo: < uvc_v4l2_release
[4294806.172000] usbvideo: uvc_v4l2_open
[4294806.173000] usbvideo: Unknown ioctl 0x803c7601
[4294808.385000] usbvideo: > uvc_v4l2_release
[4294808.393000] usbvideo: < uvc_v4l2_release

When I start camorama I get an error:
Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0)
Please check the connection

When I start xawtv my webcam-light goes on for a split second and then xawtv automatically quits.

I don't know where to look from here on. Any help

[Dethread]

I have the exact same problem. Have you been able to find a solution?

[TheMaGuS]

Hi,

did you find a solution for this problem?

Best regards,

Magnus

[gosh]

No, I'm sorry, didn't solve it.
I gave this webcam to my wife who still uses XP ...

[emi]

i have the same problem, is there no way to get the cam work ?

[sascha]

I had a similar problem with my Quickcam I found that if I changed the device setting in Camorama from /dev/video0 to /dev/video1 it all worked fine.

Maybe try this.

[rts]

Does anyone have an alternate download site for the uvc drivers? http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ seems to be dead at the moment.

[rts]

So the website finally came back.

I got my Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 working quite easily:

svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/
cd linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk
make
sudo make install

Plugged in my QuickCam, and in dmesg I see:

[4433456.238000] usb 5-3.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[4433456.493000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:08c5)

Now, UVC only supports the v4l2 API, not the v4l API, so this may be the problem with camorama, as (I believe) it only understand v4l. Ekiga, however, understands v4l2, and the webcam works perfectly with Ekiga.

[edm00se]

Anyone know how to get this to work in dapper?

[EDIT]
Okay, solved it myself. Just make sure you have the linux-headers-386 (or respective package; options are: linux-headers-386, 686, k7, server, server-bigiron). This will also install the linux-kernel-headers package.
[/EDIT]

[strips]

Originally Posted by rts Now, UVC only supports the v4l2 API, not the v4l API, so this may be the problem with camorama, as (I believe) it only understand v4l. Ekiga, however, understands v4l2, and the webcam works perfectly with Ekiga.

Thats it. Ekiga works with the cam.

xawtv, camorama, gqam would not open the device at all.