Acer Oribcam on 11.1

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Hi, I just installed 11.1 today on my Acer Aspire 9410. It has a built in webcam, which I don’t really care for.

But the problem is, every time I BOOT the system it has trouble with this webcam and keeps repeating some error message over and over again. This no only makes the BOOT take a very long time, and it also stops the USB ports from working.

My dmesg:
usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0896
usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-7: Product: Camera
usb 1-7: Manufacturer: OEM
gspca: probing 046d:0896
vc032x: check sensor header 44
usb 1-7: USB disconnect, address 5
vc032x: I2c Bus Busy Wait 0
vc032x: I2c Bus Busy Wait 0
vc032x: I2c Bus Busy Wait 0
vc032x: I2c Bus Busy Wait 0
vc032x: I2c Bus Busy Wait 0
vc032x: I2c Bus Busy Wait 0
vc032x: Unknown sensor…
vc032x: probe of 1-7:1.0 failed with error -22

This is only a small part of it, but it repeats it self way to many times too post.

also my lsusb:

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c042 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I don’t really care if the thing works in linux or not. I just want to either remove or disable gspca so that I get rid of the slow BOOT and the USB issues.

Any help is greatly appreciated, as this happens in all the linux distros I have tried lately (Fedora 10, Ubuntu, and openSUSE)

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Hi,

I have the same problem in FC10.

Do you solved this problem ??

Thank you

Ricardo

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Hi, I had the same Problems when moving from 11.0 to 11.1. :frowning:

As I read in a posting from “oldcpu” targeting a similar problem, the driver is now a kernel module. In my case, the driver produced a steady CPU load and no USB mass storage devices were detected. >:(
Luckily I do not need the webcam, so I decided to deactivate the kernel module. The module seems to load automatically, I did not find any indications for loading it via the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file. Therefore I modified the following files:
/lib/modules/[your-kernel-directory]/modules.alias
/lib/modules/[your-kernel-directory]/modules.usbmap
Search in the files for lines including “vc032” (the gspca_vc032x module) and delete the lines. For security purposes it is wise to create a copy of the files first. It worked for me, but it may create some troubles on your machine. It is important to change the files in the right directory, if you installed the software updates you will have more than one directory starting with “2.6.27”. If you want to check which kernel you are running, look in the /var/log/boot.msg file.

Regards