problems with MS life cam VX5000 and V4L
 

Hello
I am running Lenny. I have a Microsoft Life Cam VX5000 usb camera. This camera works like a charm with skype (v 2.1.0.47), chesse and luvcview. But it doesn't work with ekiga. Each time I run ekiga I get the message:


Error while opening video device Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000A moving logo will be transmitted during calls. Notice that you can always transmit a given image or the moving logo by choosing "Picture" as video plugin and "MovingLogo" or "StaticPicture" as device.

Your video driver doesn't support the requested video format.
Apparently, it is a problem with v4, l:
$ v4l-confv4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0

dga: version 2.0X Error of failed request: *XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode**Major opcode of failed request: *136 (XFree86-DGA)**Minor opcode of failed request: *1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)

**Serial number of failed request: *13**Current serial number in output stream: *13
The uvc module is loaded:$ lsmod | grep uvcuvcvideo * * * * * * * 45800 *0*

compat_ioctl32 * * * * *1312 *1 uvcvideovideodev * * * * * * * 27520 *1 uvcvideov4l1_compat * * * * * *12260 *2 uvcvideo,videodevusbcore * * * * * * * 118192 *7 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd ,uhci_hcd

*Just in case the output of lsusb is:
$ lsusbBus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. * * *<----------------------------- VX5000Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 004 Device 003: ID 045e:0728 Microsoft Corp. * * *<----------------------------- VX5000Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubBus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse OpticalBus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
My video card is a Radeon 9100:


*$lspci.....01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QM [Radeon 9100]....
I am googling looking for a solution, but with out success. Any help will be welcome.


Thanks in advance, regards
Marcelo

problems with MS life cam VX5000 and V4L
 

Hi!
sorry for answer my own email... but the problem with ekiga was solved installing the libpt-xxx-plugins-v4l2 packages, and choosing the v4l2 plugin*in the ekiga video configuration.


Regards
Marcelo

2010/1/18 Marcelo Chiapparini <marcelo.chiappa@gmail.com>


Hello
I am running Lenny. I have a Microsoft Life Cam VX5000 usb camera. This camera works like a charm with skype (v 2.1.0.47), chesse and luvcview. But it doesn't work with ekiga. Each time I run ekiga I get the message:



Error while opening video device Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000A moving logo will be transmitted during calls. Notice that you can always transmit a given image or the moving logo by choosing "Picture" as video plugin and "MovingLogo" or "StaticPicture" as device.


Your video driver doesn't support the requested video format.
Apparently, it is a problem with v4, l:
$ v4l-confv4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0


dga: version 2.0X Error of failed request: *XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode**Major opcode of failed request: *136 (XFree86-DGA)**Minor opcode of failed request: *1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)


**Serial number of failed request: *13**Current serial number in output stream: *13
The uvc module is loaded:$ lsmod | grep uvcuvcvideo * * * * * * * 45800 *0*


compat_ioctl32 * * * * *1312 *1 uvcvideovideodev * * * * * * * 27520 *1 uvcvideov4l1_compat * * * * * *12260 *2 uvcvideo,videodevusbcore * * * * * * * 118192 *7 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd ,uhci_hcd


*Just in case the output of lsusb is:
$ lsusbBus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. * * *<----------------------------- VX5000Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub


Bus 004 Device 003: ID 045e:0728 Microsoft Corp. * * *<----------------------------- VX5000Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubBus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub


Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse OpticalBus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
My video card is a Radeon 9100:



*$lspci.....01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QM [Radeon 9100]....
I am googling looking for a solution, but with out success. Any help will be welcome.



Thanks in advance, regards
Marcelo






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Marcelo Chiapparini
http://sites.google.com/site/marcelochiapparini