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

[Rohan Kulkarni]

Yes....It installed cleanly without any errors. But luvcview does not
start. It gives this error :

[root at rohan rohan]# luvcview -f yuv
> luvcview version 0.2.1
> Video driver: x11
> A window manager is available
> video /dev/video0
> Unable to start capture: 71.
> Error grabbing
>  Clean Up done Quit

>From where can I download a new version of uvcvideo? May be the
web-cam might work with the new driver.

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2008 11:31:25 Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
>> I followed the instructions in the link and installed luvcview.
>> But when I run luvc view I get the following error :
>>
>> [root at rohan rohan]# luvcview -f yuv
>> luvcview version 0.2.1
>> Video driver: x11
>> A window manager is available
>> video /dev/video0
>> Unable to start capture: 71.
>> Error grabbing
>>  Clean Up done Quit
>>
> You installed the driver at
> http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Investigation/uvc/luvcview-20070512.tar.gz?
> Did it complete?  Were there any error messages?
>
> Anne
>
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