Rhiakath Guru
Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 572 Location: Hell...
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:28 pm Post subject: webcam MS vx3000 garbage image |
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Hi there.
I know it's a microsoft webcam. they're evil, bla bla bla, take over the world, yadda yadda.
nevertheless, it's what i have, and it worked
i was recently trying to enable it, only to find there's no gspca package anymore, and it got built-in.
i seem to be able to detect it, using gspca_sonix module.
for some reason, the image is garbage.
when i try spcaview, it outputs this
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Spcaview version: 1.1.8 date: 25:12:2007 (C) mxhaard@magic.fr
Initializing SDL.
SDL initialized.
bpp 3 format 15
Using video device /dev/video0.
Initializing v4l.
**************** PROBING CAMERA *********************
Camera found: USB camera
Hmm did not support Video_channel
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and a whole lot of
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cvsync err
: Invalid argument
cmcapture: Invalid argument
>>cmcapture err -1
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from there on.
Can anyone help me out with this? _________________ pc-rhiakath ~ $ emerge -s happiness
Searching..
[ Results for search key : happiness ]
[ Applications found : 0 ]
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I see dead pixels... |
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