I have an HP DV9000 laptop with a built in webcam. All I want to do is be able to do video chats with friends in Kopete and record clips to youtube.
When I run lsusb it tells me:
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia
The webcam works with ekiga, though not kopete. So I think this is a software issue, not hardware.
When I run cheese (
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/gnome/cheese) The video is super jumpy. When I hit record it will capture a frame like 1 every 2 seconds. Also the sound won't record from the built in microphones.
I followed the FAQ on the website for cheese (
http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/FAQ) and changed the properties of gstreamer to xvimagesink from ximagesink. It is still jumpy though.
When I run Cheese in the terminal I get this:
root@ubuntu:/home/rockgod# cheese
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
appending /root/.gnome2/cheese/images/Picture01.jpg to thumbnail row
appending /root/.gnome2/cheese/videos/Video01.ogg to thumbnail row
appending /root/.gnome2/cheese/videos/Video02.ogg to thumbnail row
appending /root/.gnome2/cheese/videos/Video03.ogg to thumbnail row
** Message: Probing the webcam, please ignore the following, not applicabable tries
using photo source: v4l2src
using video source: v4l2src
When I run camorama I get an error message that says "Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0) Please Check Connection.
In the terminal:
root@ubuntu:/home/rockgod# camorama
(camorama:8402): Gnome-WARNING **: invalid gnome config path '=/section/key'
(camorama:8402): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1019: unable to lookup signal "show" of unloaded type `GtkMessageDialog'
(camorama:8402): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_add_emission_hook: assertion `signal_id > 0' failed
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
