unbranded webcam woes

corky383 · 11-21-2009, 02:40 PM

I recently bought a cam that the seller assured me was UVC compliant, its came with a cd that i cannot access as i don't have windows.
So i compiled and installed the UVC drivers from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pinchartl/uvcvideo/shortlog/tip
following the instructions from //https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UVC

But still nor cheese or skype, lsusb detect the webcam.

here's the output from lsusb

Quote:
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1b3b:2936
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
I don't really know where to start looking for drivers, the only info i've got from the driver cd is the directory name /media/cdrom0/USB 2.0 PC Camera (60Hz)_080323_WHQL.exe

Here's the output from dmesg

Quote:

[ 86.444040] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 119.193162] process `skype' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
[ 350.930636] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 8261.780083] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[ 8261.992055] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Also luvcview gives this

Quote:

luvcview 0.2.4

SDL information:
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
Device information:
Device path: /dev/video0

Any clues??

business_kid · 11-22-2009, 11:10 AM

Try and find the chip and look on
http://mxhaard.free.fr

Laurens73 · 11-22-2009, 01:42 PM

If you got a 2.6.30 kernel or higher most webcam chipsets are already installed in the kernel, else there should be separate packages to install to get it working.

Sometimes only the redirection fails. Try something like this for cheese:

Code:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so cheese /dev/video0

or for skype the code below:

Code:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype /dev/video_webcam

corky383 · 11-28-2009, 04:51 PM

I tried those commands but alas no luck
The/dev/video doesn't even exist as per the luvcview output:

Quote:

luvcview 0.2.4

SDL information:
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
Device information:
Device path: /dev/video0
ERROR opening V4L interface: No such file or directory

can i refer you to this ubuntu launchpad forum where i also posted, there's a guy there who's trying to figure out how to build a driver or something ( i am a noob!)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1333503