pwc
[Top] [All Lists]

[pwc] pwc does not work on FC5

To:
Subject: [pwc] pwc does not work on FC5
From: Giuseppe Castagna <>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:21:11 +0200
Hi,

I saw that this problem was already discussed lastmonth, unfortunately the proposed solutions do not work for my case.

I have two identical laptops (two thinkpads X40) a Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro USB webcam and a Philips PCVC750K (ToUCam Pro Scan).

Both worked quite well on both machines which had an identical configuration: up-to-date Fedora Core 4 for which I compiled and reinstalled pwc-10.0.11.

Now I made a fresh installation on one of the two laptops of the Fedora Core 5. I saw that the webcams (in ekiga and in camstream) did not work (the carry on working on the unmodified laptop). Nor did with a custom kernel 2.6.17-rc3 (latest available). Well, I tried to do as for the FC4. I tried both pwc-10.0.12-rc1 and pwc-10.0.11, I tried them both on the 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 standard fedora kernel and on my custom 2.6.17-rc3. In all the cases, with both webcams the result is the same: with V4L1 (ekiga, camstream) a grey screen (even though there are no apparent errors in the logs apart from
Apr 29 19:16:51 mirto kernel: pwc Failed to set LED on/off time.
), while wit V4L2 (ekiga) a generic error in opening /dev/video0 (also under root, so it should no be a permission problem).

Suggestions?

Below, here you are relevant logs (2.6.17-rc3 with

TIA

---Beppe---

Apr 29 18:55:37 mirto kernel: pwc Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro USB webcam detected.
Apr 29 18:55:37 mirto kernel: pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
Apr 29 18:56:47 mirto kernel: pwc Failed to set LED on/off time.
Apr 29 18:56:58 mirto kernel: pwc Closing video device: 43 frames received, dumped 5 frames, 0 frames with errors. Apr 29 18:57:51 mirto kernel: pwc Closing video device: 258 frames received, dumped 11 frames, 0 frames with errors.
Apr 29 19:09:02 mirto kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 5
Apr 29 19:09:20 mirto kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
Apr 29 19:09:20 mirto kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Apr 29 19:09:20 mirto kernel: pwc Philips PCVC750K (ToUCam Pro Scan) USB webcam detected.
Apr 29 19:09:20 mirto kernel: pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
Apr 29 19:16:51 mirto kernel: pwc Failed to set LED on/off time.
Apr 29 19:17:02 mirto kernel: pwc Closing video device: 46 frames received, dumped 8 frames, 0 frames with errors.


and the correponding dmesg

pwc Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro USB webcam detected.
pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
pwc Failed to set LED on/off time.
pwc type = 740
pwc type = 740
pwc set_video_mode(176x144 @ 10, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 1.
pwc Using alternate setting 1.
pwc type = 740
pwc type = 740
pwc set_video_mode(160x120 @ 10, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 1.
pwc Using alternate setting 1.
pwc Dumping frame 6.
pwc Closing video device: 43 frames received, dumped 5 frames, 0 frames with 
errors.
pwc type = 740
pwc type = 740
pwc set_video_mode(160x120 @ 10, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 1.
pwc Using alternate setting 1.
pwc type = 740
pwc type = 740
pwc set_video_mode(160x120 @ 10, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 1.
pwc Using alternate setting 1.
pwc Dumping frame 6.
pwc Dumping frame 7.
pwc Dumping frame 8.
pwc Dumping frame 9.
pwc Dumping frame 10.
pwc Dumping frame 33.
pwc Dumping frame 62.
pwc Closing video device: 258 frames received, dumped 11 frames, 0 frames with errors.
usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
pwc Philips PCVC750K (ToUCam Pro Scan) USB webcam detected.
pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
pwc Failed to set LED on/off time.
pwc type = 750
pwc type = 750
pwc set_video_mode(176x144 @ 10, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 1.
pwc Using alternate setting 1.
pwc type = 750
pwc type = 750
pwc set_video_mode(160x120 @ 10, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 1.
pwc Using alternate setting 1.
pwc Dumping frame 6.
pwc Dumping frame 7.
pwc Dumping frame 8.
pwc Dumping frame 9.
pwc Closing video device: 46 frames received, dumped 8 frames, 0 frames with 
errors.


_______________________________________________
pwc mailing list

http://lists.saillard.org/mailman/listinfo/pwc

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
  • [pwc] pwc does not work on FC5, Giuseppe Castagna <=
Admin

Disclaimer: Neither Andrew Taylor nor the University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering take any responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU