Steren Webcam

[Manuel Escudero]

Hi! I've just bought a STEREN COM-111 Webcam and it do not work with
cheese....

Is anyway to make this webcam work?

Thanks!

[Hiisi]

pe, 2010-10-29 kello 20:31 -0500, Manuel Escudero kirjoitti:
> Hi! I've just bought a STEREN COM-111 Webcam and it do not work with
> cheese....
>
> Is anyway to make this webcam work?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> <-Manuel Escudero->
> Linux User #509052
> @GWave: [e-mail]
> @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog)
> PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31  1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6

Hi!
Provide the output of this command just after you plug in your webcam:
dmesg | tail -20
Does it work with any other program?

[Ankur Sinha]

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 14:56 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
> pe, 2010-10-29 kello 20:31 -0500, Manuel Escudero kirjoitti:
> > Hi! I've just bought a STEREN COM-111 Webcam and it do not work with
> > cheese....
> >
> > Is anyway to make this webcam work?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -- 
> > <-Manuel Escudero->

Hello,

You might also want to look at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13

If yours doesn't work, it would be a good idea to mail the person
in-charge so he can get it working for everyone :)

[Manuel Escudero]

2010/10/31 Ankur Sinha
> On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 14:56 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
> > pe, 2010-10-29 kello 20:31 -0500, Manuel Escudero kirjoitti:
> > > Hi! I've just bought a STEREN COM-111 Webcam and it do not work with
> > > cheese....
> > >
> > > Is anyway to make this webcam work?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > <-Manuel Escudero->
>
> Hello,
>
> You might also want to look at
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13
>
> If yours doesn't work, it would be a good idea to mail the person
> in-charge so he can get it working for everyone :)
>
> --
> Thanks!
> Regards,
> Ankur
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>
> "FranciscoD"
>
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Humm thanks for the tips, First I would like to be more specific:

Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I dicovered
that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is called
"ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after installing
the driver
or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux does
not
recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...

I was researching at Google and it seems there is no support for these kind
of webcams
(with this USB drivers) does not exist. Anyway... I'll give you the Output
of the dmesg
command:

[levick@LevickPC ~]$ dmesg | tail -20
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
usb 1-8: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
usb 1-8: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
scsi3 : usb-storage 1-8:1.0
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Multi    Flash Reader     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 3842048 512-byte logical blocks: (1.96 GB/1.83 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[levick@LevickPC ~]$

Also I'll contact with the "Better Webcam Support" Project

Thanks!

P.S. The webcam does not work with any program.

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sunday, October 31, 2010 19:04:04 Manuel Escudero wrote:
> Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
> for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I dicovered
> that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is called
> "ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after installing
> the driver
> or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux does
> not
> recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...

If:

1) you have Oracle's closed-source version of VirtualBox (not the OSE version 
provided by standard Fedora repos)

2) your VirtualBox is configured correctly and you can verify that it supports 
USB devices

3) you have installed the webcam driver under Windows virtual machine

then the webcam *should* work under the Windows VM, regardless of any support 
from the Linux host. The signal from the webcam should just be passed-through 
to vm, without interference from the host OS. Can you verify this first?

Also, can you find some friend with a "real" Windows system and verify that the 
webcam is working there? You don't want to chase faulty hardware...

HTH, :-)
Marko

[Manuel Escudero]

2010/10/31 Marko Vojinovic
> On Sunday, October 31, 2010 19:04:04 Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
> > for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I dicovered
> > that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is
>
> called
> > "ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after
>
> installing
> > the driver
> > or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux does
> > not
> > recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...
>
> If:
> you have Oracle's closed-source version of VirtualBox (not the OSE
>
> version
> provided by standard Fedora repos)
> your VirtualBox is configured correctly and you can verify that it
>
> supports
> USB devices
> you have installed the webcam driver under Windows virtual machine
>
> then the webcam *should* work under the Windows VM, regardless of any
> support
> from the Linux host. The signal from the webcam should just be
> passed-through
> to vm, without interference from the host OS. Can you verify this first?
>
> Also, can you find some friend with a "real" Windows system and verify that
> the
> webcam is working there? You don't want to chase faulty hardware...
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
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@Marko: What you say is actually false... For example, even if you have the
Oracle's Vbox (That's the one I use)
in a Non-Supportive System, the hardware that you connect to the VM is not
going to be recognized, because it's like
you're not plugging anything to the PC.

To verify what I'm saying, Plug an iPhone into a Fresh F12 or even 13
installation and then try to use it inside Oracle's vbox
with windows, the VM is not going to recognize it until you install the
proper packages to give linux support for it (if I'm not wrong, F12
is not going to recognize it at all) and After installing the proper
libraries in F13 you might not have full support for it inside Linux,
However,
you're going to be able to use it inside the VM With iTunes without any
problem.

in the case of the webcam, the PC does not recognize it and is like I'm not
plugging anything to the Windows 7 VM.

@Frantisek: The webcam is not recognized, lsusb does not print anything
useful, this is the output with the webcam connected:

[levick@LevickPC ~]$ lsusb
Bus 005 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 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:0841 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1784:0006 TopSeed Technology Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0461:4d0f Primax Electronics, Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[levick@LevickPC ~]$

Wich is the same if the wecam is not plugged in.

I might try to find a real Windows Host to try it in that computer...

I'll be cheking this thread. Any help would be useful,

Thanks Again, Have a Nice Day.

[Manuel Escudero]

2010/10/31 Manuel Escudero
> 2010/10/31 Marko Vojinovic
>
> On Sunday, October 31, 2010 19:04:04 Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > > Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
> > > for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I
> >
> > dicovered
> > > that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is
> >
> > called
> > > "ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after
> >
> > installing
> > > the driver
> > > or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux
> >
> > does
> > > not
> > > recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...
> >
> > If:
> > you have Oracle's closed-source version of VirtualBox (not the OSE
> >
> > version
> > provided by standard Fedora repos)
> > your VirtualBox is configured correctly and you can verify that it
> >
> > supports
> > USB devices
> > you have installed the webcam driver under Windows virtual machine
> >
> > then the webcam *should* work under the Windows VM, regardless of any
> > support
> > from the Linux host. The signal from the webcam should just be
> > passed-through
> > to vm, without interference from the host OS. Can you verify this first?
> >
> > Also, can you find some friend with a "real" Windows system and verify
> > that the
> > webcam is working there? You don't want to chase faulty hardware...
> >
> > HTH, :-)
> > Marko
> >
> > --
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> > [e-mail]
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>
> @Marko: What you say is actually false... For example, even if you have the
> Oracle's Vbox (That's the one I use)
> in a Non-Supportive System, the hardware that you connect to the VM is not
> going to be recognized, because it's like
> you're not plugging anything to the PC.
>
> To verify what I'm saying, Plug an iPhone into a Fresh F12 or even 13
> installation and then try to use it inside Oracle's vbox
> with windows, the VM is not going to recognize it until you install the
> proper packages to give linux support for it (if I'm not wrong, F12
> is not going to recognize it at all) and After installing the proper
> libraries in F13 you might not have full support for it inside Linux,
> However,
> you're going to be able to use it inside the VM With iTunes without any
> problem.
>
> in the case of the webcam, the PC does not recognize it and is like I'm not
> plugging anything to the Windows 7 VM.
>
> @Frantisek: The webcam is not recognized, lsusb does not print anything
> useful, this is the output with the webcam connected:
>
> [levick@LevickPC ~]$ lsusb
> Bus 005 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 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:0841 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1784:0006 TopSeed Technology Corp.
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0461:4d0f Primax Electronics, Ltd
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> [levick@LevickPC ~]$
>
> Wich is the same if the wecam is not plugged in.
>
> I might try to find a real Windows Host to try it in that computer...
>
> I'll be cheking this thread. Any help would be useful,
>
> Thanks Again, Have a Nice Day.
>
> --
> <-Manuel Escudero->
> Linux User #509052
> @GWave: [e-mail]
> @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog)
> PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31  1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6

Hi, I've just tried the webcam in a real Windows Host but it seems
to be useless... I did not install the driver, but plugging the cam
should bring out the Windows New Hardware assistant and it doesn't
appear.

I believe I'm going to change it for other one.

Greetings.

[Franta Hanzlík]

Manuel Escudero wrote:
> 2010/10/31 Ankur Sinha <[e-mail]
> >
> On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 14:56 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
> > pe, 2010-10-29 kello 20:31 -0500, Manuel Escudero kirjoitti:
> > > Hi! I've just bought a STEREN COM-111 Webcam and it do not work with
> > > cheese....
> > >
> > >
> > > Is anyway to make this webcam work?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > <-Manuel Escudero->
>
> Hello,
>
> You might also want to look at
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13
>
> If yours doesn't work, it would be a good idea to mail the person
> in-charge so he can get it working for everyone :)
>
> --
> Thanks!
> Regards,
> Ankur
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>
> "FranciscoD"
>
> --
> users mailing list
> [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
> To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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>
>
>
> Humm thanks for the tips, First I would like to be more specific:
>
> Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
> for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I dicovered
> that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is called
> "ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after
> installing the driver
> or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux
> does not
> recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...
>
> I was researching at Google and it seems there is no support for these
> kind of webcams
> (with this USB drivers) does not exist. Anyway... I'll give you the
> Output of the dmesg
> command:
>
> [levick@LevickPC ~]$ dmesg | tail -20
> SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
> lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
> usb 1-8: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
> lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
> usb 1-8: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
> scsi3 : usb-storage 1-8:1.0
> scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Multi    Flash Reader     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 3842048 512-byte logical blocks: (1.96 GB/1.83 GiB)
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdb: sdb1
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [levick@LevickPC ~]$
>
> Also I'll contact with the "Better Webcam Support" Project
>
> Thanks!
>
> P.S. The webcam does not work with any program.
>
> -- 
> <-Manuel Escudero->
> Linux User #509052
> @GWave: [e-mail] 
> @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog)
> PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31  1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6

This messages part is irrelevant to Your webcam - You either had webcam
connected when PC booted and messages about webcam are closer to
messages start, or Your webcam isn'n detected. What will print "lsusb"
command?
You should get someone as:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0458:006a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

and appropriate part of /var/log/messages should be as this:
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150831.772023] usb 2-2: new high speed USB
device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150831.894766] usb 2-2: New USB device
found, idVendor=0c45, idProduct=62c0
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150831.894770] usb 2-2: New USB device
strings: Mfr=2, Product=1, SerialNumber=3
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150831.894772] usb 2-2: Product: USB 2.0
Camera
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150831.894775] usb 2-2: Manufacturer:
Sonix Technology Co., Ltd.
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150831.894777] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: SN0001
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150832.089965] Linux video capture
interface: v2.00
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150832.112458] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00
device USB 2.0 Camera (0c45:62c0)
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150832.115053] input: USB 2.0 Camera as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input6
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150832.115155] usbcore: registered new
interface driver uvcvideo
Oct 31 20:26:28 ws22 kernel: [150832.115157] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)

(You probably gets only first part, when udev will not find correct
driver for it)

Franta Hanzlik

[Bill Davidsen]

Manuel Escudero wrote:
> 2010/10/31 Ankur Sinha <[e-mail]
> >
> On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 14:56 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
>  > pe, 2010-10-29 kello 20:31 -0500, Manuel Escudero kirjoitti:
>  > > Hi! I've just bought a STEREN COM-111 Webcam and it do not work
> with
>  > > cheese....
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Is anyway to make this webcam work?
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Thanks!
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > <-Manuel Escudero->
>
> Hello,
>
> You might also want to look at
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13
>
> If yours doesn't work, it would be a good idea to mail the person
> in-charge so he can get it working for everyone :)
>
> --
> Thanks!
> Regards,
> Ankur
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>
> "FranciscoD"
>
> --
> users mailing list
> [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
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>
>
>
> Humm thanks for the tips, First I would like to be more specific:
>
> Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
> for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I dicovered
> that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is called
> "ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after
> installing the driver
> or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux
> does not
> recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...

KVM (qemu-kvm) has an option to pass USB devices directly back into the VM, from 
which you can control them. It doesn't depend on driver support beyond the basic 
bit moving level. I don't know what the limitations of hypervisors which use the 
kernel features less directly might be, but direct USB support does work.