Interestingly, when I boot into WinXP then restart (not shut down) back to Ubuntu, I get webcam function back.
** Description changed: I have a Vaio SZ650 with VGP-VCC7 webcam, supported by the R5u870 driver (http://wiki.mediati.org/Installation). Everything worked fine during Hardy Alpha but then at Beta stage something happened and I can't use my webcam anymore. Now Hardy has been released, with broken webcam support. I think installing the latest kernel borked it, now I can't get webcam with any program, (cheese, xawtv, Skype, camorama) -. I have rebuilt ( 'make') and reinstalled ('make install') r5u870 just in case, but it makes no difference. I can view a raw video stream (there I am! On the screen!) by running the following, so the driver still works: - ]$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesin + ]$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink camorama tells me it "Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0)" Skype cannot detect a webcam at all cheese displays a test pattern xawtv says this: ------------- This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.24-16-generic) xinerama 0: 1280x800+0+0 /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*, -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal--39-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, -*-luxi sans-medium-r-normal--39-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, -*-*-r-normal--39-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, -*-*-*-*--39-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Error: Aborting: no fontset found ----------------- uname -a Linux doris 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux This is echoed into dmesg: [ 36.921902] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (05ca:183a) [ 36.922148] uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26). [ 36.922394] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26). [ 36.922396] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5). [ 36.922415] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 36.922417] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0) . . . [ 37.378763] usbcam: registering driver r5u870 0.11.0 [ 37.378795] r5u870-0: Detected Sony VGP-VCC7 [ 37.378797] r5u870-0: requesting microcode state [ 37.379320] r5u870-0: camera reports negative microcode state [ 37.379322] r5u870-0: loading microcode file "r5u870_183a.fw" [ 37.379626] wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs' [ 37.488173] r5u870-0: enabling microcode [ 37.488290] r5u870-0: requesting microcode version [ 37.488406] r5u870-0: camera reports version 0111 [ 37.488410] r5u870-0: interface 1 already claimed [ 37.488413] r5u870-0: Found format 1: YUYV (4 frames) [ 37.488415] r5u870-0: Found resolution 1: 640x480 ival 666666 (18432000 B/s) [ 37.488417] r5u870-0: Found resolution 2: 320x240 ival 666666 (4608000 B/s) [ 37.488419] r5u870-0: Found resolution 3: 176x144 ival 666666 (1520640 B/s) [ 37.488421] r5u870-0: Found resolution 4: 160x120 ival 666666 (1152000 B/s) [ 37.489525] r5u870-0: Found UVC control Hue [-180,180] def:0 info:03 [ 37.491783] r5u870-0: Added 8 WDM controls [ 37.491785] r5u870-0: control Hue/uvc 06 <= 0 [ 37.491894] r5u870-0: control White Balance Red <= 127 [capture off] [ 37.491895] r5u870-0: control White Balance Green <= 127 [capture off] [ 37.491897] r5u870-0: control White Balance Blue <= 127 [capture off] [ 37.491898] r5u870-0: control Auto White Balance <= 1 [capture off] [ 37.491899] r5u870-0: control V-Flip <= 0 [capture off] [ 37.491901] r5u870-0: control H-Flip <= 0 [capture off] [ 37.491902] r5u870-0: control Privacy <= 0 [capture off] [ 37.491903] r5u870-0: control Night Mode <= 0 [capture off] [ 37.491927] r5u870-0: registered as video0 [ 37.491947] usbcore: registered new interface driver r5u870 -- [Hardy] webcam stopped working after last kernel update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
