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Re: webcamera not working



On 14/01/12 01:38, Andreas Berglund wrote:
> On 2012-01-10 23:04, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the long delay, haven't had a chance to respond until now.
<snipped>

No worries.

>> It appears as if there isn't enough USB bandwidth for your device - try
>> it in other USB ports. Use:-
>> $ dmesg | tail -20 | grep ioctl
>> to see when you've found a USB bus that's not overloaded.
>>    
> 
> 
> None of the usb ports worked.  

I assume you mean "switching USB ports, and removing other USB devices
didn't fix the problem"

> This is the output from vlc
> v4l2:///dev/video0
> 
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
> Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
> [0x966120] main libvlc: Kör vlc med standardgränssnittet. Använd "cvlc"
> för att använda vlc utan gränssnitt.

Run vlc with the standard interface.
Use "cvlc" to use vlc without a GUI

(this is an English list - please translate for the subscribers and
searchers)

> Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
> Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0x7f768971ab50, 0x7f768971aab0)
> Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
> Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> [0xa748e0] v4l2 demux error: VIDIOC_STREAMON failed
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> [0xa748e0] v4l2 demux error: cannot set input (Device or resource busy)
> [0xcaa340] v4l2 access error: VIDIOC_STREAMON failed
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> libv4lconvert: warning more framesizes then I can handle!
> [0xcaa340] v4l2 access error: cannot set input (Device or resource busy)
> [0xc8d4e0] main input error: open of `v4l2:///dev/video0' failed: (null)
> 
> 
> Before I got "v4l2: ioctl streamon failed: No space left on device" from
> vlc as well as from mplayer. Don't know what made that change. I still
> get that message from mplayer.
> I've tried the camera in windows and it works, reasonably it shouldn't
> work there either if it was due to a constraint on the bus bandwith.

Depends on how the buses are managed.



Is this a Nvidia video device?
If so which driver are you using?

All I can think of at this point is that it "might" be a video driver
problem. The camera itself is normally well supported.

<snipped>


Cheers

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