Hi Axel,

On Monday 29 December 2008, Axel Schweiß wrote:

[snip]

> >> ====
> >> 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 one I have is the newest in the opensuse 11.1 repos, so I have to wait,
> as the 16 gb ssd is not a good built-enviroment ;)
> But other than that, the cam works, only window resizing crashes the
> viewer, but starting with a higher resolution (-s) works.

Unless you get a crash dump (called 'oops') in the kernel log when luvcview 
segfaults, the problem lies entirely in userspace and I can't help you much 
there.

> Now I have to sort out, where the change of the brightnesslevel of
> the display is started, I had trouble with the kde4 powerdevil and
> thought it was sorted out with kde3, but while the cam is running, the
> backlight intensity changes more than once a minute. Maybe it's the
> hardware, kernel or videodriver...

I'm pretty sure I don't change the LCD backlight intensity in the uvcvideo 
driver :-) Good luck with that one.

[snip]

> Thanx for the help,

You're welcome.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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