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Re: [pwc] Problems with Logitech Quickcam 4000 Pro in debian testing

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Subject: Re: [pwc] Problems with Logitech Quickcam 4000 Pro in debian testing
From: Raymond <>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 09:56:48 +1000
I can't remember exactly but that sounds a lot like the errors I was getting when I plug my QuickCam Pro 4000 into a USB port that's running the Linux EHCI driver (ie. USB2.0). For some reason, the PWC driver doesn't seem to like being on a port that's under control of the EHCI driver.

In my testing here's what I've found.

QuickCam Pro 4000 straight into any USB port that's connected to its own controller - fine, if the port is USB2.0 it drops to 1.1 and uses the UHCI driver. Ie.
computer -> camera

QuickCam Pro 4000 into anything that's connected to its own controller through a USB1.1 hub - fine, plugging the USB1.1 hub into the controller puts it in UHCI mode already. Eg.
computer -> usb1.1 hub -> (zero or more USB1.1 or USB2.0 hubs) -> camera

QuickCam Pro 4000 into anything that's connected to its own controller through a USB2.0 hub - doesn't work, the USB2.0 hub puts the controller into EHCI mode and the PWC driver does funny things. Eg.
computer -> usb2.0 hub -> (zero or more USB1.1 or USB2.0 hubs) -> camera


Have you tried plugging straight into the desktop (ie. without a hub in the way)? Note that I believe some (many?) desktop motherboards incorporate USB hubs (eg. the 2 ports on the front of the box may actually be 2 ports on a 2 port USB2.0 hub chip and connected to only 1 controller) so this might not work anyway ... the other option may be to unload the EHCI driver (so you only run on UHCI) but this disables USB2.0 altogether ...


- Raymond


At 12:19 PM 21/05/2006 +0200, you wrote:
Hi!

I have a Logitech Quickcam 4000 Pro, that seems to work fine on my unbunt laptop (Breezy), just plug in and pwc is loaded and it works fine. But on my debian testing desktop I get the followin error msgs, when running dmesg:

pwc Failed to set video mode  fps; return code = -32

So I tried exchaning the pwc module that came with the kernel 2.6.15-1-k7 with a compiled one downloaded fron the saillard site. Tried various versions, the latest and down to the same as my ubuntu machine runs, 10.0.7. They all give me the same message (some with some additional ones).

What I do is that I chmod 777 /dev/video0 so as to avoid any permission problems, then try out camorama and gqcam, that both produce the same messages (in dmesg).

I tried searching on the error code but did not get any wiser. Any advice on what to check?


Regards,


Magnus L
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