[dms-discuss] webcam + linux?

[Tim F]

October 21, 2013

Hi Braden, James --

I tried that webcam with Ubuntu 12.10 last week, with no luck;
neither cheese nor the guvc camera controller could see it.

-- Tim F

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On Sun, 10/20/13, Braden Pellett <braden at davismakerspace.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [dms-discuss] webcam + linux?
 To: "Davis Makerspace General Discussions" <discuss at lists.davismakerspace.org>
 Date: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 10:13 PM
 
 On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:01:00PM
 -0700, James R Holliday wrote:
 > Yeah. I used it to spy on my neighbors at my last job.
 And to vid
 > conference with USC. Should work.
 
 Hmmm... I tried motion and fswebcam, and they cannot seem to
 communicate with it.  Motion complains about an
 unsupported pallette (GBRG), and fswebcam says it times out
 waiting for frames.  The same thing happens if I try
 this LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so trick I have
 seen online.
 
 I wasn't able to talk to it on my laptop either.
 
 Both are Arch linux though, i.e. similar kernels and drivers
 installed I suppose, so perhaps I should see what happens on
 another machine, e.g. Gutenberg.
 
 Do you happen to know what driver you were using?
 
 Some info on my end:
 
 lsusb
   Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0461:0815 Primax Electronics,
 Ltd Micro Innovations IC200 Webcam
 
 v4l2-ctl -D
   Driver Info (not using libv4l2):
     Driver name   : spca561
     Card type     : iCam320
     Bus info      :
 usb-musb-hdrc.1.auto-1.3
     Driver version: 3.12.0
     Capabilities  : 0x85000001
       Video Capture
       Read/Write
       Streaming
       Device Capabilities
     Device Caps   : 0x05000001
       Video Capture
       Read/Write
       Streaming
 
 journalctl -b -k
   Oct 20 20:01:56 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: new
 full-speed USB device number 8 using musb-hdrc
   Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: device
 v0461 p0815 is not supported
   Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: New USB
 device found, idVendor=0461, idProduct=0815
   Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: New USB
 device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
   Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3: Product:
 iCam320
   Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: usb 2-1.3:
 Manufacturer: PrimaScan
   Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: gspca_main:
 spca561-2.14.0 probing 0461:0815
   Oct 20 20:01:57 sentry kernel: input: spca561 as
 /devices/ocp.3/47400000.usb/47401c00.usb/musb-hdrc.1.auto/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/input/input2
 
 ...that "device v0461 p0815 is not supported" is not very
 promising... I wonder if that is the spca561 driver saying
 that...
 
 Thanks,
   Braden
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