Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9
Rohan Kulkarni
rohan.sjce at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 10:22:29 UTC 2008
Also the output of dmesg :
dmesg | grep uvcvideo
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer CrystalEye webcam (064e:a101)
usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
usbcore: deregistering interface driver uvcvideo
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer CrystalEye webcam (064e:a101)
usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Rohan Kulkarni <rohan.sjce at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have already installed gspca. When I try to test the webcam using
> gstreamer-properties I get the following error :
>
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'Video for Linux
> 2 (v4l2)': Error starting streaming capture from device '/dev/video0'.
> [v4l2src_calls.c(1392): gst_v4l2src_capture_start ():
> /pipeline0/v4l2src3:
> system error: Protocol error]
>
> Also cheese gives this error :
>
> (cheese:9072): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_set_state: assertion
> `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
>
> (cheese:9072): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion
> `object != NULL' failed
>
> (cheese:9072): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion
> `object != NULL' failed
>
> Output of lsmod :
>
> /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> ipt_REJECT 6784 2
> xt_tcpudp 6656 1
> nf_conntrack_ipv4 11396 2
> xt_state 5888 2
> nf_conntrack 49748 2 nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
> iptable_filter 6528 1
> ip_tables 13840 1 iptable_filter
> x_tables 15236 4 ipt_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ip_tables
> cpufreq_ondemand 10124 1
> acpi_cpufreq 11532 2
> fuse 41116 2
> vfat 13056 3
> fat 42784 1 vfat
> loop 16772 0
> dm_multipath 18056 0
> ipv6 221660 10
> sr_mod 17064 0
> cdrom 32796 1 sr_mod
> snd_hda_intel 336928 1
> arc4 5760 2
> ecb 6528 2
> snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
> snd_seq_oss 30364 0
> crypto_blkcipher 17924 1 ecb
> snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq 48448 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> pata_acpi 8320 0
> i915 85636 2
> snd_seq_device 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> snd_pcm_oss 42496 0
> uvcvideo 49416 0
> drm 145508 3 i915
> firewire_ohci 21636 0
> snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss
> sdhci 16908 0
> mmc_core 40604 1 sdhci
> firewire_core 34464 1 firewire_ohci
> snd_pcm 67076 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> ricoh_mmc 7552 0
> snd_timer 21640 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> i2c_algo_bit 8964 1 i915
> compat_ioctl32 5120 1 uvcvideo
> iwl3945 146140 0
> snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> ata_piix 20228 0
> video 20368 0
> crc_itu_t 5760 1 firewire_core
> output 6656 1 video
> tg3 103812 0
> acer_wmi 12596 0
> videodev 30208 1 uvcvideo
> i2c_i801 11920 0
> iTCO_wdt 13476 0
> v4l1_compat 15364 2 uvcvideo,videodev
> pcspkr 6272 0
> serio_raw 8708 0
> iTCO_vendor_support 6916 1 iTCO_wdt
> battery 14084 0
> ac 8068 0
> snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
> mac80211 181992 1 iwl3945
> ata_generic 9092 0
> i2c_core 20628 4 i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
> wmi 9640 1 acer_wmi
> button 10000 0
> joydev 12608 0
> snd 48312 12
> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
> cfg80211 25096 2 iwl3945,mac80211
> soundcore 9288 1 snd
> sg 31028 0
> dm_snapshot 18468 0
> dm_zero 5632 0
> dm_mirror 26116 0
> dm_mod 48980 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
> ahci 26760 6
> libata 127328 4 pata_acpi,ata_piix,ata_generic,ahci
> sd_mod 25624 7
> scsi_mod 120948 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
> ext3 108552 2
> jbd 40852 1 ext3
> mbcache 10116 1 ext3
> uhci_hcd 22928 0
> ohci_hcd 22404 0
> ehci_hcd 32268 0
>
> I guess uvcvideo is the driver for my webcam. But it won't work.
>
> I tries to reload the driver as modprobe uvcvideo but still it doesn't work.
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Nicolae Ghimbovschi <xfreebird at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Rohan Kulkarni <rohan.sjce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I have installed Fedora 9 on my Acer Aspire 4720 laptop. It
>>> has a Crystal Eye Webcam. But with Fedora 9 I cant use it. It is
>>> working fine with Windows XP. It is detected properly but doesn't
>>> work. I installed cheese and skype but the webcam doesn't work in
>> These don't provide webcam drivers.
>>
>> You might try to install gspca , here you can find what chips it supports
>> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
>>
>> # yum install gspca
>>
>>> either of them.
>>> gstreamer-properties shows the default video input plugin as v4l2 and
>>> device as Acer CrystalEye webcam but the test for the webcam fails.
>>> What should I do to make the webcam work?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
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