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Wednesday, February 28th 2007, 9:11am

[kopete] - problem with logitech Quickcam 4000 pro webcam

Hello,

I use kopete 0.12.4 with KDE 3.5.6 on Archlinux, I have black screen with webcam configuration.
I try my webcam with Ekiga and OpenWengo, I can see me with this programs. Logitech webcam work fine, so I suppose it's a kopete problem.

some infos :

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1 2	$ uname -r 2.6.20-ARCH

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1 2 3 4 5 6	$ setpwc -u setpwc v1.2, (C) 2003-2006 by folkert at vanheusden.com Error while doing ioctl VIDIOCPWCMPTSTATUS: No such device or address Status: 0 Time pan: 0 Time tilt: 2

First time I lanch setpwc, I have this :

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$ setpwc -p
setpwc v1.2, (C) 2003-2006 by folkert at vanheusden.com
Current device: Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000
VIDIOCPWCPROBE returns: Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 - 740
Serial number:
Resolution (x, y): 320, 240
Offset: 0, 0
Framerate: 10
Brightness: 32256
Hue: 65535
Colour: 32768
Contrast: 31744
Whiteness: 30720
Palette: YUV 4:2:0 Planar
Compression preference: 1
Error while doing ioctl VIDIOCPWCGAGC: Invalid argument
Automatic gain control: 1
Whitebalance mode: auto
Blinking of LED is not supported by the combination
of your webcam and the driver.
Sharpness: -1
Backlight compensation mode: off
Anti-flicker mode: off
Noise reduction mode: 1
Pan/tilt range is not supported by the combination
of your webcam and the driver.
Get pan/tilt position is not supported by the combination
of your webcam and the driver.

And after I have this :

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$ setpwc -p
setpwc v1.2, (C) 2003-2006 by folkert at vanheusden.com
Current device: Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000
VIDIOCPWCPROBE returns: Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 - 740
Serial number:
Resolution (x, y): 320, 240
Offset: 0, 0
Framerate: 10
Brightness: 32256
Hue: 65535
Colour: 32768
Contrast: 31744
Whiteness: 30720
Palette: YUV 4:2:0 Planar
Compression preference: 1
Automatic gain control: -13954
Whitebalance mode: auto
Blinking of LED is not supported by the combination
of your webcam and the driver.
Sharpness: -1
Backlight compensation mode: off
Anti-flicker mode: off
Noise reduction mode: 1
Pan/tilt range is not supported by the combination
of your webcam and the driver.
Get pan/tilt position is not supported by the combination
of your webcam and the driver.

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1 2 3 4 5 6	$ lsmod \| grep pwc pwc 80640 0 compat_ioctl32 1536 1 pwc videodev 25216 1 pwc usbcore 115208 7 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,pwc,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

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1 2 3 4	$ grep V4L /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH/.config CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1=y CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT=y CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2=y

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1 2	$ grep PWC /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH/.config CONFIG_USB_PWC=m

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$ dmesg
...
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
pwc: Philips webcam module version 10.0.12 loaded.
pwc: Supports Philips PCA645/646, PCVC675/680/690, 
PCVC720[40]/730/740/750 & PCVC830/840.
pwc: Also supports the Askey VC010, various Logitech Quickcams, Samsung 
MPC-C10 and MPC-C30,
pwc: the Creative WebCam 5 & Pro Ex, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite 
VCS-UC300 and VCS-UM100.
pwc: Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro USB webcam detected.
pwc: Registered as /dev/video0.
usbcore: registered new interface driver Philips webcam
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

Thanks for your help

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "marc[i1]" (Feb 28th 2007, 9:14am)

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CoolCatGee

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Wednesday, February 28th 2007, 8:45pm

I dont know if this is the same case for you as it was for me, but i got my 4000 pro working by pluging it in to its own usb bus, and its been a smooth ride since, hopefully you have a free USB bus

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marc[i1]

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Thursday, March 1st 2007, 8:42am

My webcam work with other software (Ekiga & openWengo), but not with Kopete ...

I don't understand why it's work with some software and not with kopete

I don't know if it's usefull but you see the official PKGBUILD for Archlinux : http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs…CURRENT#dirlist

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jonaster

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Friday, March 9th 2007, 8:22pm

Hello,

I got the same webcam and the same problem. I tested my cam using mplayer and it works.

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:device=/dev/video0

However, in kopete configuration the screen is black.

Jonas Kvinge

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Roman

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Tuesday, April 17th 2007, 7:33am

Kopete webcam on but black

Using Fedora 6, same problem. Works with Ekiga but can't configure to get camera to display. Turns on and Logitech Pro 4000 recognized and pwc also. Thought I might have screwed up the connection settings for MSN and Yahoo but camera only displays black screen and although can connect with contacts and send messages back and forth, no view of other camera obtained and although it looks like my webcam is being sent, nothing is received. This has been driving me nuts for weeks. Anybody figure how to get this up and running with camera support? Tnx

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Ragnar2837

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Tuesday, April 17th 2007, 11:30pm

kopete not sending ...

... seems to be a bigger kopete problem... i have the same problems but with an other webcam and suse as distro...

more informations you can find in a separate tread...

many greetings

Ragnar2837

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xoseramus

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Monday, April 23rd 2007, 6:54am

it's not KOPETE HIP CHEERS , it's a problem with many distros I have a orbit and it's working perfect in PClinuxOS , mandriva works ok but broke in videoconference , it's some issues with configure in the KX ubuntu, suse fedora and others I test the same black gray blue whatever and its the same problem the only one and for that I choose like my final distro it's this one the others year after year the same problem I tried for many years with the same distros and nthing the distros coudl make more carefully this because one stuff the people can change it's this who don't love has a good video conference the others work good for many tasks but this felt very hard.
PS and when you read the forums nobody knows anything or the answer are very weaks.

PS2 in others words PCLOS ROCKS

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jonaster

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Monday, April 23rd 2007, 3:53pm

That's because various distro's use different versions of KDE, and Kopete is included in KDE. The webcam worked in previous versions of Kopete.

Jonas Kvinge

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xoseramus

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Monday, April 23rd 2007, 6:51pm

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Originally posted by jonaster
That's because various distro's use different versions of KDE, and Kopete is included in KDE. The webcam worked in previous versions of Kopete.

Nope it's the way how the dev team made the distro, i test for many years all of them I had never tried, PClinuxOS because It was a mandriva pal, but it was just in the front door, in the way Texstar and his gang made it, its different because with the others how i told you, happend that grey green blue and wathever screen and the last kubuntu the same and it's the same KDE, their job it's pretty good and they understand it's a distro for noobs with all the good from linux with the idea the people it's first the new one, not who can play with the command line something can teach texstar to the community. and he doesn't have a big money machine behind him. that is the big difference in his gang are people compromise with the spirit of linux no just bussines.
whatever I'm very happy at the end I can delete windows from my computer

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jonaster

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Monday, April 23rd 2007, 11:38pm

Depends on what kernel the distro ships with and what driver you use.

I have been using openSuSE for a long time and got the cam to work before.

It was a newer kernel with the pwc driver that made it not work anymore.

Before in earlier versions of the kernel when I used to compile and install saillard's pwc driver as a module then it worked.

Its not the driver's fault, its icompatiblity in kopete to work with the driver.

This problem has already been submitted as a bug to KDE:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143376

Jonas Kvinge

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xoseramus

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Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 6:49am

ok my favorite desktop it's the guilty not the distro devs , well who it's happy with his distro good for them and happy with this one and i'm not going to change at the end I can work easy and that's is important for me

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