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
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