Chicony built-in Webcam on Toshiba Sattelite AMD crashing Cheese SLED 11
Trying to work with webcams on SLED 11. Devices were detected at install.
Cheese used to work. Since then, I have installed Skype and DVD decoding software so I can watch DVD's on Linux. In Skype, webcam lights up,then fails. In Cheese, webcam lights up, then applications fails. Using another post, I tried Mplayer tv:// I get messages saying.. TV filer format detected Selected driver: v4l2 v4l2: your dvice driver does not suport VIDIOC_G_STD, VIDIOC_G_PARM was used instead. Selected device : CNF7051 Capabilities: video capture streaming supported norms: inputs: 0 = Camera 1; Current input 0 current format: YUYV ..... ================== Opening video decoder : [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video VDec = vo config request 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2) VDEC: Using Packed YUY2 as ouptput csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. V0: [xv} 640x480 => 640x480 Packed YUY2 Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm: raw (RAW YUY2) ==================== Audio : no sound Starting playback X11 error: BadAlloc (Insufficient resources for operation) repeats until I press Ctrl C. kernel version 2.6.27.21-0.1-default SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 - 64 bit. lsusb shows Bus 001 Device 003 ID 04f2:b070 Chicony Electronics CO., Ltd Ideally, I'd like to disable the built in cam and use my new Logitech Quickcam pro for Notebooks - works great on the MAC and Windows. guessing it would also work on Linux, or at least hoping it would. Any ideas of further things I should try or could do to resolve this? I'm fairly new at Linux hardware. I can edit files and am comfortable moving around in the file system, but am not all that familiar with what I'm looking for. Many thanks for any assistance. Regards, Paul |
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