neddie Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 (edited) After the webcams discussion in another thread, I bought a Philips 1300 and excitedly plugged it in. I got a brief flash of the blue light, and then nothing else, and kdetv didn't seem to find any cameras connected. I looked in /var/log/messages, and saw this: usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Philips SPC 1300NC Webcam (0471:0331) Device initialization failed: the default format and/or frame are not valid. uvcvideo: <3>uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-22). 3:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 So it seemed to recognise uvcvideo ok, but then couldn't initialize the camera for some reason. I tried lsusb, and got this: # lsusb Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0471:0331 Philips And then saw a program called kdetvv4lsetup, which unfortunately just gave this: $ kdetvv4lsetup kdetvv4lsetup: using X11 display :0 dga: version 2.0 mode: 1400x1050, depth=16, bpp=16, bpl=4096, base=0xf0020000 can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory which makes sense cos there isn't a /dev/video* and no other likely-looking devices either. Any ideas what I can do? I'm running 2007 Spring if that makes any difference, is it possible I'm using old drivers or something? Edited October 5, 2008 by neddie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Anyone? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Sorry Neddie but I have nothing to offer. Just so you know someone is out here. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 If the driver is correctly loaded but doesn't work with the cam that can be tough to fix :\ I would Google the error message and see what you get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 (edited) Just no find of exact equivalent of this camera one should public meeting to try. But not I know anything about Your system. Connect camera and pass lsmod | grep gspca urpmi xawtv xawtv -hwscan This as yet so many Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0471:0331 Philips Philips 244 0x0471 0x0322 DMVC 1300K spca504b Yes Jpeg spca5xx/LE **** Philips 202 0x0471 0x0326 SPC300NC vc0305 Pas106 Yes Jpeg spca5xx/LE gspca v4l1/v4l2 *** Philips 226 0x0471 0x032d SPC210NC vc0305 Pas106 Yes Jpeg gspca v4l1 v4l2 *** Philips 230 0x0471 0x032e SPC315NC vc0305 Pas106 Yes Jpeg gspca v4l1 *** Philips 244 0x0471 0x0322 DMVC 1300K spca504b Yes Jpeg spca5xx/LE **** Philips 188 0x0471 0x0328 SPC700NC sn9c105 HV7131R Yes jpeg spca5xx/LE **** Philips 200 0x0471 0x0327 SPC600NC sn9c105 HV7131R Yes jpeg spca5xx/LE **** Philips 189 0x0471 0x0325 SPC200NC vc0305 Pas106 Yes Jpeg spca5xx/LE gspca v4l1/v4l2 *** Philips 202 0x0471 0x0326 SPC300NC vc0305 Pas106 Yes Jpeg spca5xx/LE gspca v4l1/v4l2 *** Philips 226 0x0471 0x032d SPC210NC vc0305 Pas106 Yes Jpeg gspca v4l1 v4l2 *** Philips 230 0x0471 0x032e SPC315NC vc0305 Pas106 Yes Jpeg gspca v4l1 *** Philips 244 0x0471 0x0322 DMVC 1300K spca504b Yes Jpeg spca5xx/LE **** Philips 188 0x0471 0x0328 SPC700NC sn9c105 HV7131R Yes jpeg spca5xx/LE **** .....Lex Edited September 9, 2008 by Lexicon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 (edited) I took source gspcav1 and myself I compiled and all happened http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/gs...20071224.tar.gz .....Lex Edited September 9, 2008 by Lexicon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Thanks for the replies! I don't think "gspcav1" is the right one for me though, Lex. # lsmod | grep uvc uvcvideo 51044 0 compat_ioctl32 1920 1 uvcvideo videodev 27136 1 uvcvideo v4l1_compat 14372 2 uvcvideo,videodev v4l2_common 15936 2 uvcvideo,videodev usbcore 122444 8 snd_usb_audio,uvcvideo,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd # lsmod | grep gspca # However, when I plug it in to 2008.1 live CD, I get an ekiga icon popping up on the desktop and it can show video (although only postage-stamp size). $ xawtv -hwscan This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb) looking for available devices port 82-82 type : Xvideo, image scaler name : Intel(R) Video Overlay ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217738;index=0;name="60 Hz";reserved=3081056544): Invalid argument /dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ] type : v4l2 name : Philips SPC 1300NC Webcam flags: capture $ But when I try just xawtv it gives a segmentation fault. And also $ ls /dev/vi* /dev/video@ /dev/video0 $ I've just tried Skype and it now seems happy and shows the picture in the (also postage-stamp-sized) test panel, although yesterday when I tried exactly the same thing, it didn't work. Maybe ekiga was still running in the background or something. So maybe it is indeed a 2007.1 / 2008.1 issue. Is there a way to test it to get a bigger picture? Take bigger snapshots with it? Maybe even record movies with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 (edited) I be please that camera of cannon though on tvtime. This has to be best camera since it serves v4l2 and not ; not obsolete v4l. Your camera works on driver uvcvideo modinfo uvcvideo filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26.3/kernel/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvcvideo.ko version: v0.1.0 license: GPL description: USB Video Class driver author: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> Taste to start camera in xawtv xawtv -c /dev/video0 Use mplayer mplayer -tv device=/dev/video0:driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=30 tv:// Recording mencoder -tv device=/dev/video0:driver=v4l2:width=320:height=240:fps=30 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000 -oac copy -endpos 00:01:00 -o film.avi tv:// Do you have different device of video maybe such as card tv .....Lex Edited September 11, 2008 by Lexicon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 Thanks for the help, guys! Now I've got myself upgraded to 2008.1 and the webcam works just fine, also with Skype. And that mplayer tip is a good one, thanks Lex! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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