Re: faulty pac3711

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

make sure you're using the camera together with apps which are using
libv4l, such as cheese.

Regards,

Hans


On 04/25/2010 08:39 PM, skjelnes@robin.no wrote:
> Hi!
> I'd have an Exibel snakescope TF2808 which dont make any picure on
> Linux. It worked ok on windows, but I do not have windows installed any
> longer. I do not think there have happened something to the camera
> meanwhile, I'd think the camera is OK. The driver seems to be ok too:
>
> (part of messages)
> Apr 25 19:43:16 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 20.967903] gspca: main v2.6.0
> registered
> Apr 25 19:43:16 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 21.214190] gspca: probing
> 093a:2620
> Apr 25 19:43:16 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 21.287398] gspca: probe ok
> Apr 25 19:43:16 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 21.287416] gspca: probing
> 093a:2620
> Apr 25 19:43:16 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 21.287431] gspca: probing
> 093a:2620
> Apr 25 19:43:16 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 21.287457] usbcore: registered
> new interface driver pac7311
> Apr 25 19:43:16 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 21.287462] pac7311: registered
>
> I'd have tried tvtime and xawtv as viewing application, same result on
> both; blank screen and various error messages.
>
> tvtime comes up with an blue screen "no signal","Frames too short from
> pac7311" and "cannot open capture device /dev/video0".
>
> xawtv started from an terminal outputs this and hangs:
> sigmund@sigmund-laptop:~$ xawtv -device /dev/video0
> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31-20-generic)
> xinerama 0: 1400x1050+0+0
> WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
> /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
> -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
> -gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,
> -efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,
> -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*,
> -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*, -*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"
> to type FontSet
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
> -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,
> -gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,
> -efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,
> -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*,
> -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*, -*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, *"
> to type FontSet
> ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0xb789b1d000971326
> [PAL_B1,PAL_G,PAL_D,PAL_M,PAL_N,NTSC_M,SECAM_B,SECAM_D,SECAM_G,SECAM_K,?ATSC_8_VSB,(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]):
>
> end of xawtv output
> syslog also came up with two new lines:
> Apr 25 20:30:22 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 2848.327067] gspca:
> usb_submit_urb [0] err -28
> Apr 25 20:30:23 sigmund-laptop kernel: [ 2848.607073] gspca:
> usb_submit_urb [0] err -28
>
> Tried an Creative Live! cam on the same machine and it works ok.
>
> sigmund@sigmund-laptop:~$ uname -a
> Linux sigmund-laptop 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12
> 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> I do not have any idea nor what to do now, nor how the error could be
> further traced down. Hopefully there's somebody on the list who can help
> me.
>
> Cincerely,
> Sigmund Skjelnes
>
>
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