Webcam: Driver behind device doesn't support V4L2

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Hey, I have an MSI Wind U100 laptop/openSUSE 11.2 and I’m trying to get the webcam to work. The webcam seems to be detected by the kernel as “video0” (my understanding of linux is fairly basic so I could be wrong here), but it isn’t detected at all by cheese, kopete, skype, or anything else I’ve tried.

anyway, here’s the error I get when I run the command “uvcdynctrl --list” to list my uvc devices (my webcam is a uvc device… whatever that means…) :stuck_out_tongue:


jordan@linux-sd48:~> uvcdynctrl --list
Warning: The driver behind device video0 does not seem to support V4L2.
Listing available devices:
[libwebcam] Warning: The driver behind device video0 does not seem to support V4L2.
No devices found.

any ideas? thanks! :slight_smile:

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okay, I got it fixed. the problem was that I had:


options uvcvideo quirks=2

in modprobe.conf.local

:slight_smile:

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  • jordannb,

thanks for posting the solution!

Uwe