Webcam Support Toshiba Satellite A215-s6814 Opensuse 10.3

I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-s6814 with built in web-cam. I am using the x86_64 architecture.

Problem: My webcam is very hazy. I encountered this before with another computer and a USB webcam. Perhaps that is just the state of the current drivers and rendering, but I was wondering if anyone knows how to troubleshoot this and perhaps get a clear picture going on my end. Once again, it works. Actually, the picture sent to other users is not that bad, but on my laptop, the web cam images (including those I receive from other cams) is very very bad.

Thanks!

One key thing to determine if your web cam works under Linux is to find out more detail about it. Often just saying its the web cam on a Toshiba Satellite A215-s6814 is not enough (although some times it is).

Can you type in an xterm/konsole:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">lspci</span>
and then copy and past the output on http://pastebin.ca/, and provide the pasted URL to that output here?

Hopefully that will provide enough information that someone can help you, or you can help yourself by following the instructions here:
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Web_Cameras

the web cam images (including those I receive from other cams) is very very bad.[/b]

The one's you receive from other webcams has NOTHING to do with your webcam.

One key thing to determine if your web cam works under Linux is to find out more detail about it. Often just saying its the web cam on a Toshiba Satellite A215-s6814 is not enough (although some times it is).

Can you type in an xterm/konsole:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">lspci</span>
and then copy and past the output on http://pastebin.ca/, and provide the pasted URL to that output here?

Hopefully that will provide enough information that someone can help you, or you can help yourself by following the instructions here:
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Web_Cameras
The one's you receive from other webcams has NOTHING to do with your webcam.
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I posted the output at:

http://pastebin.ca/955095

That is all I have time for right now. Later, I may go and check out the troubleshooting URL you gave as that looks really useful! Thanks again!

Cheers!

http://pastebin.ca/955095[/b]

I noted this from that page:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd

Going to this page http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Web_Cameras, which leads one here to see if spca5xx driver supports your web cam:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
and then searching there for "04f2", I don't see your camera. So that driver does NOT support your webcam.

Next, going here (USB Video Class Linux device driver home, to see if the UVC spec covers your webcam under linux): http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#devices
I note this:

04f2:b008******Chicony USB 2.0 Camera******Chicony Electronics (with a check mark indicated supported)

So your web cam IS supported by the "uvc" driver.

So clearly, the instructions to follow for openSUSE-10.3 are:
Add the following repository to YaST -> Software Repositories (for openSUSE 10.3):

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/drivers:/webcam/openSUSE_10.3/

you can do that with a zypper command:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...openSUSE_10.3/ webcam-repos

Then Start YaST -> Software Management

In the Search window enter "uvc". Select uvcvideo-kmp-default(or the one for your kernel flavor) and install it.

Plug in the webcam and start a program such as Kopete. In Kopete go back to Settings -> Configure -> Devices and check if your webcam is working.

I noted this from that page:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd

Going to this page http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Web_Cameras, which leads one here to see if spca5xx driver supports your web cam:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
and then searching there for "04f2", I don't see your camera. So that driver does NOT support your webcam.

Next, going here (USB Video Class Linux device driver home, to see if the UVC spec covers your webcam under linux): http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#devices
I note this:

04f2:b008******Chicony USB 2.0 Camera******Chicony Electronics (with a check mark indicated supported)

So your web cam IS supported by the "uvc" driver.

So clearly, the instructions to follow for openSUSE-10.3 are:
Add the following repository to YaST -> Software Repositories (for openSUSE 10.3):

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/drivers:/webcam/openSUSE_10.3/

you can do that with a zypper command:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...openSUSE_10.3/ webcam-repos

Then Start YaST -> Software Management

In the Search window enter "uvc". Select uvcvideo-kmp-default(or the one for your kernel flavor) and install it.

Plug in the webcam and start a program such as Kopete. In Kopete go back to Settings -> Configure -> Devices and check if your webcam is working.
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That worked! I now have a crystal clear image in Kopete! Cheers!

That worked! I now have a crystal clear image in Kopete! [/b]

Great news! Congratulations.