[ubuntu-in] My webcam 041e:0405f does not work in Hardy

[Onkar Shinde]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao
<dasaratharao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Onkar,
> 'I am sorry that I did not give more information. I thought that my device
> number 041e:0405f would be sufficient. It is a Creative Live Webcam. I had
> to download driver file os511 from a dedicated website for this purpose in
> Fiesty version.

I could identify the manufacturer from '041e'. But I was not able to
identify actual product as the second part is not correct. It is
having five digits '0405f' instead of four.

>  http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page
> Now, this site has an upgraded driver version for Hardy.  So, I tried this
> new driver without any success.

As long as possible please don't use third party drivers or drivers
downloaded from third party websites. It makes debugging harder.

> I have Nvidia Gefore4 MK440 AGP card. My earlier version Ubuntu was using
> restricted driver and I assume that Hardy is also using the same.

I asked about video devices that map to the device nodes of form
/dev/videox. Graphics card is not one of then. Just FYI... :-)

> As I suggested by you, I typed the commands and the results are pasted for
> your information.
>
> mohan at mohan-desktop:~$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src device=/dev/video1 !
> video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
>  ERROR: from element /pipeline0/v4l2src0: Cannot identify device
> '/dev/video1'.
> Additional debug info:
> v4l2_calls.c(429): gst_v4l2_open (): /pipeline0/v4l2src0:
> system error: No such file or directory
> Setting pipeline to NULL ...
>  FREEING pipeline ...
> mohan at mohan-desktop:~$
>
> When I typed gstream-properties, multimedia system selector dialog box
> opened. When I tested video input device, it says "Device "/dev/video0" does
> not exist". I am waiting for some more advise. Please note that I am a
> novice in Linux and slowly catching up. Thanks.

I was going to ask you to use device /dev/video0 in gst-launch
command. But looks like that device node is not created for some
unknown reason. Since you are saying that it was working on gutsy, it
is a regression and I suggest that you log a bug on
http://launchpad.net and provide the information asked.

This is all the help I could provide. :-)


Onkar
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