The Sony 'motion eye' webcam built-in the Vaio VGN-FE21M laptop doesn't work in Ubuntu 12.04 32bit. I also tried live discs of 11.10 and 11.04, but cheese didn't recognize the webcam there either.
According to the lsusb info I have a 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC1 webcam:
Code:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 054c:0281 Sony Corp.
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC1
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c030 Logitech, Inc. iFeel Mouse
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 044e:300c Alps Electric Co., Ltd Bluetooth Controller (ALPS/UGPZ6)
When I run Cheese the following lines are added when checking dmesg:
Code:
[ 1071.486601] gspca_main: ISOC data error: [14] len=0, status=-71
[ 1071.686580] gspca_main: ISOC data error: [13] len=0, status=-71
[ 1071.786597] gspca_main: ISOC data error: [13] len=0, status=-71
[ 1071.818572] gspca_main: ISOC data error: [23] len=0, status=-71
[ 1071.887557] video_source:sr[2613]: segfault at 4 ip 0038bc4c sp af2cedf0 error 4 in libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0[33d000+e3000]
[ 1072.018576] gspca_main: ISOC data error: [23] len=0, status=-71
[ 1072.118578] gspca_main: ISOC data error: [22] len=0, status=-71
I know about the R5U87x Userspace Tools, which seems to support similar webcams, but it doesn't support my version (VGP-VCC1) and installing it thus failed.
Does anyone know how to fix this/proceed in any way or should I file a bug? My problem seems to be similar to this bug, but unlike it I didn't have any installation problems when upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04.
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