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

Antonio M antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 10:03:21 UTC 2008


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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> Antonio Montagnani
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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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