Hi Matthew,

On Monday 05 January 2009, Matthew Lucas wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I recently purchased a Logitech QuickCam Orbit/Sphere AF (gosh that's
> a long name) and it works very well due to all of your hard work with
> the uvc driver.
>
> The pan and tilt features of the Orbit do not work at all, though, and
> that is kind of disappointing.  The only thing that happens is I
> receive "ioctl querycontrol error: Invalid argument / Set Pan down
> error" on the command line.  The same thing occurs for pan up, tilt
> up, tilt down, reset pan and reset tilt.
>
> Is this simply a feature that has yet to be implemented?

Pan/tilt support is implemented but requires the help of the uvcdynctrl 
application to configure the driver. 

Pan/tilt is implemented as proprietary (but documented) controls on Logitech 
webcams. The driver needs to be configured at runtime with additional 
information to access those controls.

Please install the uvcdynctrl application (part of libwebcam) to configure the 
driver. libwebcam can be downloaded from 
http://www.quickcamteam.net/software/libwebcam. Make sure you get the latest 
version from the SVN repository as the 0.1.1 package is outdated.

Control settings are not permanent so you will need to run uvcdynctrl each 
time you load the driver. This can be automated through udev/hal (libwebcam 
includes helper scripts).

> Is this a feature that is not going to be implemented?
>
> What might a progamming layman like myself do to assist in getting
> this feature implemented?
>
> Below is the output of 'lsusb -d 046d:0994 -v'.
>
> Thank you very much for all the work you have done on uvc.

You're welcome.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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