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From: Indarios <indarios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Webcam
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:04:36
Message-Id: cc6c336e0702241102v19d11372s56df4118536208c9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Webcam by Sergio Polini
1 Add dga to USE in your make.conf file, then rebuild v4l.
2
3 On 2/11/07, Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@×××××.it> wrote:
4 >
5 > Thierry de Coulon:
6 > > No idea about the uvcvideo, but I have an integrated webcam on an
7 > > "old" SOny Picturebook and had to add a few lines in modules.conf
8 > > (the distro in also an old one :) and start xawtv with the -c
9 > > option (I'd guess you did this as well, but just to make sure,
10 > > because on it's own xawtv does not find the camera).
11 >
12 > My xawtv does find the camera, and the led coupled to i turns on for a
13 > moment and then turns off. And I read:
14 >
15 > This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.18-serpol-r4)
16 > WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
17 > /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
18 > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
19 > Warning: Cannot convert
20 > string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
21 > ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0x2b2231e4f49d
22 >
23 > [PAL_B,PAL_G,PAL_H,PAL_I,PAL_K,PAL_Nc,NTSC_M,NTSC_M_JP,?,?,SECAM_G,SECAM_K1,SECAM_L,?ATSC_8_VSB,ATSC_16_VSB,
24 > (null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]): Invalid
25 > argument
26 > ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=MMAP): Success
27 > ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
28 > ioctl: VIDIOC_DQBUF(index=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;bytesused=0;flags=0x0
29 >
30 > [];field=ANY;;timecode.type=0;timecode.flags=0;timecode.frames=0;timecode.seconds=0;timecode.minutes=0;timecode.hours=0;timecode.userbits="";sequence=0;memory=unknown):
31 > Invalid argument
32 >
33 > Sergio
34 > --
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36 >
37 >

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Webcam Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@×××××.it>