gspca modules in FC10

[Benjamín Valero Espinosa]

2008/11/19 Peter Robinson

> >> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:52 +0100, Benjamín Valero Espinosa wrote:
> >> > Since I updated to FC10 Rawhide the webcam in my laptop doesn't work.
> >> > In FC9 it worked thanks to the gspca modules in Livna repository, so I
> >> > have been expecting them to appear in RPMFusion. I have read that this
> >> > functionality has been inserted in the kernel, but of course I have
> >> > the last kernel updated and I can't make it work. Please, any info?
> >>
> >> http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6317.html
> >
> > I have followed the instructions of this link, using the package in the
> > repository (0.5.3-1) and it doesn't work. I have run 'Cheese' from a
> > terminal, and I get that error on and on:
> >
> > libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: Error de entrada/salida
> >
> > I don't know if it's useful, but I have run 'dmesg' (after Cheese) and it
> > show a lot of lines at the end like that:
> >
> > gspca: frame overflow 615378 > 614400
>
> Cheese uses gstreamer for the video input which already supports
> libv4l so if its supported it should just work. It would probably be
> worth while opening a bug against libv4l with all the details of the
> make/model of your webcam, adding details of the dmesg output of your
> camera and attaching a lsusb output as well. I know he has around 20
> odd variants of cameras but there's all sorts of differences.


Thank you all! It seems that it is a well known bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472217
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