webcam problem (pwc)

Aaron Kurtz a.kurtz at hardsun.net
Thu Jun 16 16:36:35 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 17:41 +0200, Simon Lanzmich wrote:
> I have a problem with my Philips ToUcam Pro (Philips 740 webcam, using
> the pwc module) on both FC4 and a Fedora development system. When I try
> to start camorama, it says:
>  Could not connect to video device (/dev/video1).
>  Please check connection.
> and aborts.

> However, the integrated microphone works.
> The cam works well on FC3, but I can't say when it stopped working,
> because I don't use the cam very often.
> 
> Any ideas?

pwc driver is broken for kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 and apparently rawhide
kernels as well. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159608 Quick fix
would be to grab full PWC driver from current maintainer
(http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/ compile and replace bad pwc.ko
with new pwc.ko file.
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Aaron Kurtz <a.kurtz at hardsun.net>




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