On 5/20/19 1:38 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 20.05.19 10:25, folk...@vanheusden.com wrote:
>> Trying to get a pac207 camera to work with constatus.
>>
>> 2019-05-20 10:22:34.864900 INFO constatus [1-1] source v4l2 thread started
>> libv4l2: error got 4 consecutive frame decode errors, last error:
>> v4l-convert: error unknown pac207 row header: 0x0000
>> 2019-05-20 10:22:35.597949 ERROR cs:src_v4l2 [1-1] VIDIOC_DQBUF failed:
>> Input/output error
>> ioctl(VIDIOC_QBUF) failed
>> errno: 22 (Invalid argument)
>>
>> To verify that it is not a constatus-problem I also tried a raspberry-pi
>> camera via its video4linux-interface and that works fine.
>
> According to the Linux Kernel Maintainers file the device driver is
> maintained by Hans, which I CC'ed on this bug report:
>
> GSPCA PAC207 SONIXB SUBDRIVER
> M: Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl>
> L: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
> T: git git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git
> S: Odd Fixes
> F: drivers/media/usb/gspca/pac207.c
>
> Did your camera ever work on another Kernel, CPU architecture, or
> v4l-utils version? Do you have anything suspicious in dmesg output?
I strongly recommend that you buy a new webcam. This is ancient hardware.
Even the cheapest UVC webcams you can buy today will have far better
quality than a pac207. If you really, really need this to work, then I
need the full dmesg output and you also need to check if you can reproduce
this issue with the v4l2-ctl command:
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/videoX --stream-mmap
(it keeps capturing frames until you press ctrl-X)
I should have one of these webcams, but won't be able to test until next
week.
Regards,
Hans
