Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9

Rohan Kulkarni rohan.sjce at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 10:48:01 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/7 Rohan Kulkarni <rohan.sjce at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2008/7/7 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2008/7/6 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
>>>>> On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:02 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
>>>>>> I installed kernel-devel and the finally installed the linux-uvc
>>>>>> driver :) but still the webcam is not working :(
>>>>>
>>>>> Please don't top post. It screws up the reading of the progression of
>>>>> the problem and responses. If you've read other posts, you may note that
>>>>> everyone else will respond at the bottom. It's easier on the next guy
>>>>> with the same problem who google searches for answers. Thanx, Ric
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>>>>
>>>> I am back to my F9 system, and it is pratically a standard F9 with no
>>>> additional drivers!!!!
>>>> My Browser Hardware sees the webcam as SuYin Acer CristallEye webcam
>>>> with uvcvideo driver.
>>>> This is the complete output of my lsmod command
>>>>
>>>> /sbin/lsmod
>>>> Module                  Size  Used by
>>>> bridge                 46104  0
>>>> bnep                   14592  2
>>>> rfcomm                 34576  4
>>>> l2cap                  22272  16 bnep,rfcomm
>>>> bluetooth              47588  5 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
>>>> autofs4                20356  2
>>>> fuse                   41116  5
>>>> sunrpc                151412  3
>>>> cpufreq_ondemand       10124  1
>>>> acpi_cpufreq           11532  1
>>>> loop                   16772  0
>>>> dm_multipath           18056  0
>>>> ipv6                  221660  33
>>>> snd_hda_intel         336928  6
>>>> snd_seq_dummy           6660  0
>>>> arc4                    5760  2
>>>> tg3                   103812  0
>>>> snd_seq_oss            30364  0
>>>> snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
>>>> iTCO_wdt               13476  0
>>>> snd_seq                48448  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
>>>> snd_seq_device         10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>>>> snd_pcm_oss            42496  0
>>>> snd_mixer_oss          16768  2 snd_pcm_oss
>>>> snd_pcm                67076  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
>>>> firewire_ohci          21636  0
>>>> snd_timer              21640  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>>>> snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>>>> snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel
>>>> i915                   85636  2
>>>> video                  20368  0
>>>> output                  6656  1 video
>>>> i2c_i801               11920  0
>>>> sdhci                  16908  0
>>>> uvcvideo               49416  0
>>>> compat_ioctl32          5120  1 uvcvideo
>>>> videodev               30208  1 uvcvideo
>>>> battery                14084  0
>>>> firewire_core          34464  1 firewire_ohci
>>>> ac                      8068  0
>>>> button                 10000  0
>>>> acer_wmi               12596  0
>>>> wmi                     9640  1 acer_wmi
>>>> ecb                     6528  2
>>>> crypto_blkcipher       17924  1 ecb
>>>> ricoh_mmc               7552  0
>>>> iTCO_vendor_support     6916  1 iTCO_wdt
>>>> iwl3945               146140  0
>>>> mac80211              181992  1 iwl3945
>>>> cfg80211               25096  2 iwl3945,mac80211
>>>> snd                    48312  19
>>>> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
>>>> soundcore               9288  2 snd
>>>> drm                   145508  3 i915
>>>> i2c_algo_bit            8964  1 i915
>>>> mmc_core               40604  1 sdhci
>>>> i2c_core               20628  4 i915,i2c_i801,drm,i2c_algo_bit
>>>> v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
>>>> pcspkr                  6272  0
>>>> joydev                 12608  0
>>>> crc_itu_t               5760  1 firewire_core
>>>> sg                     31028  0
>>>> sr_mod                 17064  0
>>>> cdrom                  32796  1 sr_mod
>>>> ahci                   26760  2
>>>> ata_piix               20100  0
>>>> libata                127328  2 ahci,ata_piix
>>>> dm_snapshot            18468  0
>>>> dm_zero                 5632  0
>>>> dm_mirror              26116  0
>>>> dm_mod                 48980  9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
>>>> usb_storage            76040  2
>>>> sd_mod                 25624  6
>>>> scsi_mod              120948  5 sg,sr_mod,libata,usb_storage,sd_mod
>>>> ext3                  108552  2
>>>> jbd                    40852  1 ext3
>>>> mbcache                10116  1 ext3
>>>> uhci_hcd               22928  0
>>>> ohci_hcd               22404  0
>>>> ehci_hcd               32268  0
>>>>
>>>> and I am running my system on 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 kernel
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>> and also kernel 2.6.25.10-85.fc9.i686 supports the Webcam. I wonder
>>> why it has been removed at the moment from F10...but this is another
>>> question!!!
>>>
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I installed kernel-devel and the finally installed the linux-uvc
>> driver :) but still the webcam is not working :(
>> Any other suggestions to make my crystal eye webcam work?
>>
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>
> Does Smolt sees your Webcam??? and the Hardware Profiler???
> I can see it in both and I still don't understand why yours is not working...
>
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Smolt does not show the web-cam. The link to my hardware profile is :

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a6428662-2294-4460-935c-439cd260d3a5




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