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I am running Fedora 32. I have a Hercules Dualpix camera plugged in.
If I look at dmesg, the camera is seen.
Code:
[ 1.246637] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[ 1.254636] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[ 1.376967] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=06f8, idProduct=3003, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 1.376969] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 1.376971] usb 1-5: Product: Hercules Dualpix HD Microphone
[ 1.376972] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Hercules Dualpix HD Webcam
If i run lsusl I get
Code:
[ian@localhost ~]$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1a2c:2124 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05e3:0605 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 04f9:0119 Brother Industries, Ltd MFC-9660
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 047f:0ca1 Plantronics, Inc. USB DSP v4 Audio Interface
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:5411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5411 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 06f8:3003 Guillemot Corp. Hercules Dualpix HD Microphone
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:0084 Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
So, the device is seen as a microphone, but not (apparently) as a camera.
If I use Skype or Microsoft Teams it lists as my camera the Dualpix Microphone. The only picture it gets with the microphone is blackness!
/dev/video0 appears to be empty
Is there anything I can tweak to get it to recognise the Webcam as a camera?
I did follow the link. I read that uvc should already be installed and that there was no need to install anything.
I ran lsmod and that seems to show that uvc is NOT running on my system.
I installed guvcview and that was able to access the camera.
I ran vlc and that was able to access the camera.
I have installed v4l-utils and can see this
Code:
$ v4l2-ctl --all
Driver Info:
Driver name : ov534_9
Card type : Hercules Dualpix HD Microphone
Bus info : usb-0000:00:12.2-5
Driver version : 5.8.12
Capabilities : 0x85200001
Video Capture
Read/Write
Streaming
Extended Pix Format
Device Capabilities
Device Caps : 0x05200001
Video Capture
Read/Write
Streaming
Extended Pix Format
Priority: 2
Video input : 0 (ov534_9: ok)
Format Video Capture:
Width/Height : 1280/1024
Pixel Format : 'JPEG' (JFIF JPEG)
Field : None
Bytes per Line : 1280
Size Image : 492110
Colorspace : JPEG
Transfer Function : Default (maps to sRGB)
YCbCr/HSV Encoding: Default (maps to ITU-R 601)
Quantization : Default (maps to Full Range)
Flags :
Streaming Parameters Video Capture:
Frames per second: invalid (0/0)
Read buffers : 2
User Controls
brightness 0x00980900 (int) : min=0 max=15 step=1 default=7 value=7 flags=slider
contrast 0x00980901 (int) : min=0 max=15 step=1 default=3 value=3 flags=slider
saturation 0x00980902 (int) : min=0 max=4 step=1 default=2 value=2 flags=slider
exposure 0x00980911 (int) : min=0 max=3 step=1 default=0 value=0 flags=inactive
gain_automatic 0x00980912 (bool) : default=1 value=1 flags=update
power_line_frequency 0x00980918 (menu) : min=0 max=2 default=0 value=0
0: Disabled
1: 50 Hz
2: 60 Hz
sharpness 0x0098091b (int) : min=-1 max=4 step=1 default=-1 value=-1 flags=slider
I'll restart Skype and see if that makes a difference!
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