Hi Mike, On Sunday 03 February 2008, Michał Andrzej Woźniak wrote: > Dnia niedziela 03 luty 2008, Laurent Pinchart napisał(a): > > Hi Mike, > > > > On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Michał Andrzej Woźniak wrote: > > > Hi guys > > > > > > I am trying to get ALI 5606 to work (ID 0402:5606) on Kubuntu 7.10 > > > (Gutsy Gibbon). > > > > > > The uvcvideo module (from SVN, rev173) compiled nicely and loads OK, > > > but does *not* print anything in dmesg/syslog upon loading. When I try > > > to run luvcview, I get: > > > > > > luvcview version 0.2.1 > > > Video driver: x11 > > > A window manager is available > > > video /dev/video0 > > > Unable to set format: 5. > > > Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal > > > > > > ...regardless, what format and/or other settings I use. On syslog/dmesg > > > I ony get: > > > > > > uvcvideo: Failed to query (130) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : 2 (exp. 26). > > > > > > That is *very similar* to what has been described (and marked as > > > solved!) here: > > > http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linux-uvc-devel/2007-November/002486. > > >ht ml > > > > > > I even checked uvc_driver.c and I *do* have the lines as they should > > > look after the patch has been applied. So, most probably, I am missing > > > something very obvious. Or am I not?.. > > > > Please make sure you're really using the driver you compiled and not an > > older version installed with your distribution. Remove all occurrences of > > uvcvideo.ko in /lib/modules/<kernel_version> and reinstall the driver > > from sources. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Laurent Pinchart > > Thanks, Laurent! That solved it, turns out (K)ubuntu ships with some > (older) version of uvcvideo... Now, everything works like a charm! Where do > I send the flowers/beer*? ;) > > *) select one
As I don't like beer (and yes I'm truly Belgian) I guess I'll go for the flowers (or maybe Vodka as your name sounds Polish - can you get some good Krupnik ? :-)) > And just to get this noted (might save somebody some frustration): if you > are running compiz/beryl and get crashes upon running luvcview ("X Error of > failed request: BadAlloc"), you are probably running an Intel 965/X3100. > Try the "-w" luvcview option to disable the buggy (on this particular card > and with compiz...) SDL acceleration. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list Linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel