HP 2-megapixel webcam on opensuse 11.1

Tsandu · January 20, 2009, 3:03pm

Hi everyone,
I have a Hp 2-megapixel webcam and wanted to use on opensuse 11.1
I look around and search for threads in this forum for webcam issues but can’t find an exact solution.
Tried to detect the webcam with lsusb and the result is:

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 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 004 Device 014: ID 15b8:6002

Bus 004 Device 011: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Hi-Speed 21-in-1 Flash Card Reader/Writer (Internal/External)
Bus 004 Device 010: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 004 Device 009: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Card Reader
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

The webcam is highlighted as identified in the lsusb command.

I tried all the opensuse 11.1 available driver and still can’t come-up with the image.

luvcview result is:

luvcview 0.2.4

SDL information:
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
Device information:
Device path: /dev/video0
ERROR opening V4L interface: No such file or directory

Testing with kopete kde3yield a blue screen
Testing with kopete kde4 yield nothing but the camera image
Testing with gqcam, gqcam doesn’t open as it doesn’t detect the webcam.
Testing with vlc unsuccessful, vlc on windows works

I posted hoping someone out there successfully made this beast work.

If anyone have an idea or link to a workaround, it will be considered as a great help

tsandu

Tsandu · January 20, 2009, 6:57pm

Sorry for adding this post
I can no longer edit my first post to add an additional information.
Below is the results of dmesg:

usb 4-8.3.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13
usb 4-8.3.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 4-8.3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=15b8, idProduct=6002
usb 4-8.3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 4-8.3.2: Product: HP Webcam
usb 4-8.3.2: Manufacturer: HP
usb 4-8.3.2: USB disconnect, address 13
usb 4-8.3.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 14
usb 4-8.3.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 4-8.3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=15b8, idProduct=6002
usb 4-8.3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 4-8.3.1: Product: HP Webcam
usb 4-8.3.1: Manufacturer: HP

It is detecting the hp webcam:(

pdc_2 · January 20, 2009, 9:16pm

your device is said to be UVC; but does not seem to be recognised;

according to this website

GSPCA V4L2 - Webcams

your device should now be supported by a gspca driver

Subdriver Id Name Sensor Status
vc032x 15b8:6002 HP 2.0 Megapixelrz406aa po1200 OK

It shows up in the website as shown;

… and this link documents its addition:

http://moinejf.free.fr/gspca_Changes.txt

so it looks like you need version 2.5.0 gspca

so it would seem you get through this website

Jef Moine

where they say to get it from

~jfrancois/gspca: Summary](http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/)

and on the top line, you can select to download a bz2 or gz file;

either will need to be unpacked, and installed;

let us know if this is helpful to you;

and if you wish to install the gspca package, maybe another forum member can guide you through the install of which package you choose, if you need help; you can google for a howto install tar.gz files; I must away to do other things

Tsandu · January 21, 2009, 5:34am

Hi pdc,

Thanks a ton. You save my day.
I went to all the links you provided and did lots of reading.
Finally decided to download the tarball and base from the instruction, at http://moinejf.free.fr/gspca_README.txt I was able to compile and made my Hp webcam work. The only difference from the guide with my compiling procedure is, instead of make and make install I went the other way using make then checkinstall. It created the rpm in /usr/packages/src/rpms/i586. I added this directory to my yast source and let yast2 handled the installation.

Regards,
Tsandu

pdc_2 · January 21, 2009, 8:50am

great; delighted to hear your webcam is now working; webcams seem to be problematic at present; you may be able to help others on the forum now with all your reading

jagdish78 · January 20, 2010, 4:17pm

hai,
I have the HP camera (ID 15b8:6002) but its i think 1.3 Mega pixel (not 2) as described on HP VGA Webcam Web camera - pan / tilt.
I want to install it on my compaq laptop that has OS fedora 12.
what i have tried so far is as follow (but camera dis not work in skype or cheese)
I downloaded gz from v4l-dvb: log and unzipped in a home folded then from that folder in root privillage i did following
make rminstall (i also tried earlier make, make install etc)
then tried to run camera in cheese but does not work
for skype i did LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
that also does not work
can you tell me the process of installation in detail for fedora12 and if you are sending me some files then you can send to gmail account jagdish78
thanking you
JR