Micromedia webcam

[Ankur Sinha]

On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 00:29 +0200, Spack wrote:
> Le samedi 17 juillet 2010 à 14:35 -0700, Jon Nettleton a écrit :
> > >>
> > >>         Quote:
> > >>         $ cheese
> > >>         libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: I/O error
> > >>         libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: I/O error
> > >>         libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: Invalid argument
> > >>
> > >>         So what happened to my webcam which used to work? Maybe an
> > >>         updated
> > >>         package broke it but I can't tell which one would do
> > >>         that... :s
> > >>
> > >>         I tried to load the module with quirks mode or the trace
> > >>         option but none
> > >>         worked.
> > 
> > Could you test one thing quick.  Open a terminal and try launching
> > cheese with this command
> > 
> > LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so" cheese
> > 
> > of course if you have a x86_64 install then you will use /usr/lib64/
> > in the path to the library.
> > 
> > If you don't have that file you will need to install the libv4l rpm via yum.
> > 
> > If that works report back and we can work on the next set of steps.
> > 
> > Jon
> 
> I already tried this but I got the same error messages. And yes, I've
> got a x86_64.
> 

hi,

Maybe you should look at this page[1] and contact the person in-charge.
I had trouble with mine too. I had emailed him, and Hans replied with a
solution that works. Now the firmware for my webcam is at RPMFusion ;)

regards,
Ankur

[1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport