Labtec Webcam 1200 Driver ?

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Hi,

Please help me to configure my Labtec Webcam 1200 to work under openSUSE 11.0

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 093a:2464 Pixart Imaging, Inc.

thanks,

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Its quite likely you will not get this webcam working with any Linux version, and if you do, it won’t be easy. The openSUSE webcam guidance page is here:
HCL/Web Cameras - openSUSE

and a quick look indicates your web cam is not on ANY of the web cam lists.

I then put 093a:2464 in google and came up with this hit:
GSPCA V4L2 - Webcams
which has your webcam listed as:

Subdriver	Id	Name	Sensor	Status 
pac207	093a:2464	PAC207	?? 	OK

The reference to a gspca v4l driver appears to me to be different from the gspca driver per the HCL/Web Cameras - openSUSE page. Still, I may be wrong, and I suppose you could try that gspca driver (noted in the openSUSE page), and install it, and also install v4l-conf and v4l-tools. You can find those packaged for rpms and listed on webpin:
Webpin

But in the end, I think you may need to remove the rpm packaged gspca driver, and then follow the guidance here: Jef Moine (which IMHO is far from clear). You could start by reading the readme.txt here: http://moinejf.free.fr/gspca_README.txt

But I’m not very optimistic about your succeeding but maybe you will get lucky and the gspca rpm will work. …

Good luck!

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  • oldcpu,

there are gspcav modules available through the “webcam” community repo, worth a try IMHO.

Uwe

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Agree, … I think I stated that, although maybe my skeptism came through a bit strong?

From what I can see, that webcam is not listed in the gspcav support page for web cams, but it is listed in a gspca v4l support page (on the same site), making me think those drivers are different. … Perhaps I am incorrect here?

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On 07/21/2008 oldcpu wrote:
> Agree, … I think I stated that, although maybe my skeptism came
> through a bit strong?

Yep :slight_smile:

Uwe

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Ok … thank you for your help!

I have removed the rpm packaged gspca driver and installed gspca v4l driver with v4l-tools and v4l-conf. Now, I can see “/dev/video0” when I plug the webcam, but I only see a bid image moving. Then, I installed the V4L library, the webcam works fine with Cheese and VLC by using the following:

export LD_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so <application>

I tried to do the same thing with Skype, but it gives me the same bad image.
I installed luvcview but it doesn’t work:

# luvcview 
luvcview 0.2.4

SDL information:
  Video driver: x11
  A window manager is available
Device information:
  Device path:  /dev/video0
Stream settings:
ERROR: Requested frame format MJPG is not available and no fallback format was found.
 Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal

any help ??!!