Mounting Logitech Communicate Deluxe in Gutsy Gibbon

[Jack Bowling]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:46:17PM +0200, Nikolaos Konstantinou wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently purchased a Logitech camera for my ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) pc but
> unfortunately it doesn't mount properly. I checked that the camera is
> linux-compatible according to
> http://www.quickcamteam.net/hcl/linux/logitech-webcams
> 
> The camera is listed as:
> 0992 SPCA527 Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe uvcvideo
> 
> It seems that the uvc video drivers work properly according to dmesg
> 
> dmesg output:
> [ 3876.425354] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
> 3
> [ 3876.674510] usb 4-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [ 3876.846742] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> [ 3876.908148] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
> [ 3876.908166] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0992)
> [ 3876.927794] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
> [ 3876.927799] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
> 
> lsusb output:
> Bus 004 Device 003: ID 046d:0992 Logitech, Inc.
> 
> Nevertheless, when trying to use camorama,the message I get states: "Could
> not connect to video device (/dev/video0). Please check connection."
> 
> Does anyone have any idea? Any help would be appreciated

Try using camstream rather than camorama to see if that makes a difference.
The uvcvideo uses V4L1 drivers, not V4L2 and I believe camorama only works
with V4L2 cams. So you have to use a V4L1-aware app to get anything out of
the cam. 

Jak