F16: Webcam by Logitech (Orbicam) is not working

[antonio montagnani]

Tommy Pham ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 15/04/2012 09:02:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Tommy Pham<tommyhp2 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:24 PM, antonio montagnani
>> <antonio.montagnani at alice.it>  wrote:
>>> Tommy Pham ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 15/04/2012 01:13:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, antonio montagnani
>>>> <antonio.montagnani at alice.it>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Installed F16 on a quite old laptop (Acer 5672WLMI) of a friend of mine
>>>>> replacing WinXp: everything is o.k., Fedora is running smoothly, the only
>>>>> problem is that the webcam is not recognized, also lsusb doesn't show
>>>>> anything.
>>>>> I guess that webcam is a Logitech Orbicam, from the specification, also
>>>>> the
>>>>> hardware lister doesn't show anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any clue??
>>>>> --
>>>>> Antonio M
>>>>> Skype: amontag52
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux Fedora F16 (Verne) on Acer 5720
>>>>>
>>>>> http://lugsaronno.altervista.org
>>>>> http://www.campingmonterosa.com
>>>>> http://www.studiodacolpaloschi.it
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Search for uvc (USB Video Class) driver.  It may support your webcam
>>>> in question.
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Tommy
>>>
>>>
>>> tnx
>>>
>>> I don't understand why on my personal Acer (That is an Aspire5720) uvcvideo
>>> is loaded....shall I have to try modprobe the driver???
>>
>> Did you do 'yum search uvc'?  I don't remember the off the top of my
>> head what packages you'll need but according to [1], it should support
>> your webcam:
>> 046d:09b0       Acer OrbiCam (Acer notebooks)   Logitech
>>
>> from [1] also:
>> Linux 2.6.26 and newer includes the Linux UVC driver natively. You
>> will not need to download the driver sources manually unless you want
>> to test a newer version or help with development.
>>
>> the UVC 1.1.1 works for both my Logitech Quickcam STX, Orbit MP, and
>> Lenovo T420 integrated webcam.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tommy
>>
>> [1] http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Antonio M
>>> Skype: amontag52
>>>
>>> Linux Fedora F16 (Verne) on Acer 5720
>>>
>>> http://lugsaronno.altervista.org
>>> http://www.campingmonterosa.com
>>> http://www.studiodacolpaloschi.it
>>>
>
> You might need to install libwebcam.  Check dmesg if your kernel is
> able to detect the webcam:
>
> [tommy at fedora ~]$ dmesg|grep -i 046d
> [    1.568207] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=08c2
> [    2.365103] usb 5-3: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=08ad
> [   21.662569] gspca_main: gspca_zc3xx-2.14.0 probing 046d:08ad
> [   22.671076] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device<unnamed>  (046d:08c2)
> [  235.310178] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=08c2
> [  235.312371] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device<unnamed>  (046d:08c2)
> [  238.296592] input: UVC Camera (046d:08c2) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2
> [  368.664065] usb 5-3: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=08ad
> [  368.666116] gspca_main: gspca_zc3xx-2.14.0 probing 046d:08ad
> [  370.717243] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=08c2
> [  370.718561] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device<unnamed>  (046d:08c2)
> [  373.703270] input: UVC Camera (046d:08c2) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2
>
> Note that the UVC has problem detecting my Orbit MP (046d:08c2)
> properly upon boot/reboot.  I have to disconnect and reconnect it.
>
> HTH,
> Tommy

my webcam is integrated so I cannot disconnect it...and I don't see any 
camera device in lsusb. no improvement also after libwebcam installation.
-- 
Antonio M
Skype: amontag52

Linux Fedora F16 (Verne) on Acer 5720

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