GE Easycam doesnt work with ANY application

crudpuppy · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

k, I fianlly got all my kernel modules and paramaters right. I have the camera being detected in the kernel and the /dev/video0 and /dev/v4l/video0 devices are being created automatically.
When I try and run the following apps i get the followin results.

cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg; mplayer test.mpg
unrecognized format

xawtv
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0x1 [PAL_B]): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
then a blank window

gnomemeeting - detects camera
seg faults

gqcam gqcam /dev/v4l/video0
Error reading image...
Error reading image...
Error reading image...
Error reading image...
repeated over and over

camserv
2005-03-31 18:04:13 [main] Success reading config "/usr/share/camserv/camserv.cfg"
2005-03-31 18:04:13 [camconfig] Using default of "2359296" for [main]:shm_alloc
2005-03-31 18:04:13 [mainloop] Setup signals
2005-03-31 18:04:13 [filter] Loading filter [time_stamp]
2005-03-31 18:04:13 [filter] Loading filter [jpg_filter]
(V4L) GCAP && GWIN: Invalid argument
2005-03-31 18:04:13 [picloop] Failed to initialize video device!

[main] Picture taker could not be created!

All this is very confusing to me so i thought I'd see if you guys could shine any light on the subject.

yaneurabeya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1754 Location: Seattle

What are the permissions masks for /dev/v4l/video0 and /dev/v41/? I learned that some devices (my tv tuner card) had to explicitly be 0777 or else I could not use them in tvtime.

The default perms for my IBM webcam work perfectly fine though...

crudpuppy · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 30 15:44 video0 -> v4l/video0

v4l:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 30 15:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 Mar 30 15:44 ..
crwxrwxrwx 1 username video 81, 0 Mar 30 15:44 video0

yaneurabeya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1754 Location: Seattle

Try chmod'ing them 0777. It might be an issue with the SUID part of the permission.

crudpuppy · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

no such luck...still not working. same errors

crudpuppy · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

come on i know someone has an idea here.

yaneurabeya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1754 Location: Seattle

Not sure cause I haven't really played around with my webcam a lot in Gentoo

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