Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000

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#1

I am trying out os 11.1 + KDE 4.1 and find that my web cam does not work with Luvcview or Kopete. I get the following message for Luvcview:

"luvcview 0.2.4

SDL information:
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
Device information:
Device path: /dev/video0
Stream settings:
Frame format: MJPG
Unable to set format: Device or resource busy
Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal"

As far as I can determine the Web cam is recognised. See Below

“SUSE11-1:/home/mike # uname -a
Linux SUSE11-1 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
SUSE11-1:/home/mike # lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 9000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
SUSE11-1:/home/mike # ls -al /sys/class/video4linux/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2009-01-14 10:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 0 2009-01-14 10:56 …
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-01-14 10:56 video0 → …/…/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/video4linux/video0
SUSE11-1:/home/mike # lsmod | grep usbcore
usbcore 198656 8 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,isp1760,uvcvideo,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
SUSE11-1:/home/mike # lsusb -d 046d:0990 -v | grep bcdDevice
bcdDevice 0.07”

Can anyone suggest a solution?

#2

My Logitech Cam broke with 11.1. I’ve seen other threads noting the same issues. I have not found a solution. Going back to the 2.6.25 (11.0) kernel might help.

#3

Follow the steps on this thread
Mini HOWTO for WEBCAMS (gspcav driver) - openSUSE Forums

Best way to work with your app is to edit the menu or the luncher command and and add what it said in the thread. in kde 4.x open the menu editor and do those steps
In xfce it’s easy just create a luncher with the necessary tweak and there you go. It worked for my logitech webcam.
Example:

env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so gqcam

See my screenshot with gqcam working.
January 2009 screenshot thread - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5300/snapshot2cw5.png

#4

Conram: I believe that the Quickcam Pro 9000 is a UVC camera and thus uses the uvc driver, so I’m not sure this is the answer.

#5

Do you have that driver installed?
Are you using this repo?
Index of /repositories/drivers:/webcam/openSUSE_11.1

#6

conram: The problem is now resolved, I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver and the camera now functions:)

Thanks for comments