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Old 12-28-2020, 05:25 PM   #1
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Configure Camera - slackware, KDE


In this age of ZOOM, I'm trying to configure my built-in camera. I have a Gateway LT4004u netbook with a 32bit Atom N2600 processor, OS is up-to-date Slackware 14.2 with KDE.

I've run Kamera and tried to add a device. That gives me a list of a hundred or so Manufacturers and their various models. I have:
Code:
# lsusb -v
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 064e:d250 Suyin Corp. 
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceSubClass         2 
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x064e Suyin Corp.
  idProduct          0xd250 
  bcdDevice            1.02
  iManufacturer           1 SuYin
  iProduct                2 1.3M HD WebCam
  iSerial                 3 HF1316-A821-HN01-VA-R01.00.02
  bNumConfigurations      1

# dmesg
[   10.124643] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=064e, idProduct=d250
[   10.124773] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   10.124892] usb 1-3: Product: 1.3M HD WebCam
[   10.125004] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: SuYin
[   10.125115] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: HF1316-A821-HN01-VA-R01.00.02

[   13.091423] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device 1.3M HD WebCam (064e:d250)

[   13.121807] input: 1.3M HD WebCam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/input/input21
[   13.122090] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   13.122092] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

# lsmod | grep uvcvideo
uvcvideo               70156  0
videobuf2_vmalloc       4288  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_v4l2         17939  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_core         21914  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
videodev              132945  4 uvcvideo,v4l2_common,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
Note that vendor Suyin Corp. is not specifically in the list presented by Kamera.

Any ideas on how to enable this camera?
 
Old 12-30-2020, 02:25 AM   #2
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AFAIU Kamera is for digital cameras rather than webcams.

Here's a list of webcam apps that may be of interest...
https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/524/ord/rating/
 
Old 12-30-2020, 04:38 AM   #3
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AFAIU Kamera is for digital cameras rather than webcams.
Well, that would explain my problem!
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Here's a list of webcam apps that may be of interest...
https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/524/ord/rating/
That's a great list! Do you have any recommendations? I see that wmwebcam is in the SlackBuilds repository, though not listed in your link.

I guess my post "update" didn't take. I did use guvcview on my system and that did work.

I'll experiment and post back results.

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