Eyetoy webcam driver?

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I “inherited” a Namtai Sony Eye Toy webcam from my son-in-law and for the fun of it, I plugged it into my SuSE 11.4 computer (after trying to get the camera to work with Windows 7 64 bit unsuccessfully) and found to my happy amazement that SuSE knew what it was and even Skype found it.

However, it does not seem to be working. When I try to test it with Skype, there’s no picture, just the black screen.

I’m wondering if there’s anything else I should do get it to work? How do I configure this thing?

hwinfo --usb gives the following:


09: USB 00.0: 11200 **TV Card**
  [Created at usb.122]
  Unique ID: R_O4.uSF4UngS020
  Parent ID: pBe4.Uu0aCsrHYoB
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-6/2-6:1.0
  SysFS BusID: 2-6:1.0
  Hardware Class: tv card
  Model: "Sony EyeToy USB camera Namtai"
  Hotplug: USB
  Vendor: usb 0x054c "Sony Corp."
  Device: usb 0x0155 "EyeToy USB camera Namtai"
  Revision: "1.00"
**  Driver: "ov519"
  Driver Modules: "gspca_ov519"**
  Speed: 12 Mbps
  Module Alias: "usb:v054Cp0155d0100dc00dsc00dp00icFFisc00ip00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: gspca_ov519 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe gspca_ov519"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #6 (Hub)
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What about
In Kopete go to Settings -> Configure -> Devices and check if your webcam is working

It sounds like it’s mostly just a config thing for skype. But not not my area of expertise…

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Kopete worked! It knew that the Eye Toy was there and I saw pictures!! Cool!
Now if only Skype could use it like Kopete does. But at least I know the camera is working!! :slight_smile:

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I figured it was working from the hwinfo
Skype is a pain
But there are some users of it here (not me), who can help. I’m sure they will pick up on this thread.

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Have a read of this

HCL:Web cameras - openSUSE

You may need to launch skype with

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

For 64-bit system

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

An old thread I remember

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/464388-opensuse-11-4-getting-logitech-quickcam-messenger-work-2.html

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I didn’t get to read through the whole link yet but I tried (I have a 64 bit system)

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

and got:


ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

But Skype did load ok but still no video.

and I did


lsmod | grep gspca

and got:


gspca_ov519            40482  0 
gspca_main             28942  1 gspca_ov519
videodev               81448  1 gspca_main

I’ll get some time Monday or Tuesday to read through that thread and see what might help.

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Hmm… lets see what v4l libraries you have installed

rpm -qa |grep v4l
libv4l1-0-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4l2-0-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4l2-0-32bit-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4lconvert0-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4lconvert0-32bit-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4l-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64

BTW, did you install Skype from the skype website, or via openSUSE build service? Maybe you have the 32-bit version installed.
Check with

rpm -qa |grep skype

AFAIU, there’s nothing wrong with that, so long as you have the libv4l2-0-32bit library installed. (Others may be able to correct or add to this).

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rpm -qa |grep v4l gives me:


libv4l2-0-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4l2-0-32bit-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4l-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4lconvert0-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4lconvert0-32bit-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64
libv4l1-0-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64

and rpm -qa |grep skype gives me:

 skype-2.2.0.25-suse111.i586

I think I got it from Skype themselves because I have the rpm in my rpm’s folder and those are the ones that I get from the websites. When I look in Yast, it says “From Vendor” so it must have been from the Skype website then.

skype --version gives me:


Skype 2.2.0.25
Copyright (c) 2004-2011, Skype Limited
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Try to start skype from Terminal by typing:

skype

There you wil get messages what is going wrong.
SDB:Skype - openSUSE

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I just tried it and there was nothing in the terminal window, which is strange because I know that for most software, I see a list of what is going on.

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AFAIU, there’s nothing wrong with that, so long as you have the libv4l2-0-32bit library installed.

I wonder if this is something to look at?
Isn’t yours all _64

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Yup, I do have libv4l2-0-32bit-0.6.4-9.1.x86_64 installed.
Still, it makes me wonder, what is Kopete and Google+ Hangout doing right that Skype can’t seem to do?

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Hi gymnart

When I plug in my webcam, I get

ls -l /dev/vid*
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Jan 20 09:22 /dev/video0

I’m a member of the video group. Maybe you need to check the video device node ownership too.

Edit: Although that doesn’t explain why the other apps are working… :frowning:

You may also want to try the 64-bit skype build from the repos if you haven’t already.

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the 64-bit skype build from the repos

What repos? I tried looking and nothing else showed up except for what I already have. I even went to the build service and all I saw were python scripts and purple something or other to add to it. :frowning:

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There are several

Index of /repositories/home:/Lord_LT/openSUSE_12.1

Or

Index of /repositories/home:/Friseer/openSUSE_12.1

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I linked to it back in post #7. Scroll down and you’ll see the skype packages. In particular, home:/Friseer/openSUSE_11.4 (but there appears to be several to choose from).

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Thanks deano_ferrari, So, I guess I should go for the one up near the top of the list then?
Before I try skype-2.2.0.35-4.1.x86_64.rpm, should I uninstall the one I have or should I just let YaST handle it? (I’m assuming that YaST will be taking care of that and not KPackageKit ?)

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Remove it first with the yast package manager (or zypper if you’re comfortable with CLI).

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Yay!! It works now! I installed the skype-2.2.0.35-4.1.x86_64.rpm one.
I’m happy now. :smiley:

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Excellent News