Hi Axel,

On Saturday 27 December 2008, Axel Schweiß wrote:
> Merry Christmas everbody, I hope everyone had nice Holidays.

Thanks. Merry Christmas to you too, and to all the Linux UVC users.

> To get serious, I have trouble with the built-in cam in my
> new Dell Mini 9 (1.3 MP):
> Most regular Webcam-apps did not work, BUT "mplayer tv://"
> and also "vlc v4l2://" activates the cam and shows up a really
> nice picture of the cam. Skype also works with it.
>
> But Viewers like "luvcview, cheese, webkam, camorama" could
> not open the device properly, in case for "luvcview" it says:

camorama won't work as it only supports the deprecated V4L1 interface.

Recent versions of cheese should work.

This is the first time I've heard of webKam. As it seems to be a very young 
application you should probably report the problem to its author.

> ====
> luvcview version 0.2.1
> Video driver: x11
> A window manager is available
> video /dev/video0
> Unable to set format: 22
>     Init v4l2 failed !! exit fatal
> ====

Your camera doesn't support MJPEG, try 'luvcview -f yuv' (or upgrade to 
luvcview 0.2.4).

> The cam is from SuYin Corp, nearly listet on the frontpage,
> as lsusb shows up "064e:a118".
>
> I've modprobed "uvcvideo" with now parameters right now.
>
> The full verbose output of "lsusb -v -d 064e:a118" is
> pastebin-ed here:
> http://pastebin.ca/1294497

Thanks. I've updated the supported devices list on the website.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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