Quickcam USB Problems

[Lonni J Friedman]

Are you dual booting between Debian & Gentoo?  I'm not clear whether
you're saying that it works currently in Debian, or worked in the past
in Debian?

Anyway, I used to use camstream last year, but it doesn't seem to work
at all with newer v4l versions in X.

On 9/22/07, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I'm having a problem with my webcam that has me stumped. I'm using a
> Logitech Quickcam USB that has, up 'till now, worked w/o a problem
> using the qc-usb driver and the application camorama on Debian and
> varients. Currently I'm using Gentoo and have merged the current
> version of the qc-usb driver (0.6.6) but was unable to get camorama to
> build. I was able to merge camstream (I also tried this app with Debian
> and it worked) but all I'm getting is a black screen. I've pasted the
> output from a terminal below hoping someone here (Hi Kurt!) could
> decipher what's going wrong. If more/different info is required please
> let me know and I'll post it.
>
> TIA, Myles
>
> Kernel: 2.6.22-gentoo-r7
> Driver: qc-usb-0.6.6 (duly modprobed)
>
> W: CamStream version 0.27 starting.
> >> void CCamStreamApp::ReadConfigFile()
> << void CCamStreamApp::ReadConfigFile()
> D: CVideoCollector::VideoCollector()
> D: >> CVideoDevice::CVideoDevice()
> D: << CVideoDevice::CVideoDevice()
> D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::CVideoDeviceLinux(/dev/video0)
> D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::CVideoDeviceLinux()
> >> CCamWindow::CCamWindow(QWidget*, const char*)
> << CCamWindow::CCamWindow(QWidget*, const char*)
> >> CWebCamViewer::CWebCamViewer(CVideoDevice*, QWidget*, const char*)
>   >> QDomNode CCamStreamApp::FindVideoDeviceConfig(const QString&,
> const QString&, bool) Trying to find video options for Logitech
> QuickCam USB@/dev/video0 << QDomNode
> CCamStreamApp::FindVideoDeviceConfig(const QString&, const QString&,
> bool) >> CVideoOptions::CVideoOptions() >> virtual void
> CVideoOptions::DeclareVariables() << virtual void
> CVideoOptions::DeclareVariables() << CVideoOptions::CVideoOptions()
>   D: Input set = 0
>   D: Tuner set = -1
>   D: CSnapshotSettingsDlg::CSnapshotSettingsDlg(...)
>   W: QFont::setWeight: Value out of range (100)
>   D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::Init()
>   W: Cannot query audio capabilities of video device.
>   D: Using mmap(), size = 426240
>   D: mmap()ed 1 buffers.
>   D: Initial image size = (352, 288)
>   D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::Init()
>   D: CVideoSettingsDlg::SizeChanged(352x288)
>   D: CVideoSettingsDlg::FramerateChanged(10)
>   D: No Philips webcam detected, removing extension tab
>   D: CCamPanel::SetSize(352x288)
>   D: CCamPanel::SetImageSize(352x288)
>   D: CCamPanel::SetVisibleSize(352x288)
>   D: CCamPanel::SetSize(352x288)
>   D: CCamPanel::SetImageSize(352x288)
>   D: CCamPanel::SetVisibleSize(352x288)
>   >> void CWebCamViewer::RecalcTotalViewSize()
>   << void CWebCamViewer::RecalcTotalViewSize()
> << CWebCamViewer::CWebCamViewer(CVideoDevice*, QWidget*, const char*)
> D: >> CVideoDevice::IncrementPalette(0)
> D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::StartCapture()
> D: CVideoDeviceLinux::SetPalette picked palette 5 [rgb32]
> D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::CreateImagesRGB()
> D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::CreateImagesRGB()
> D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::StartCapture()
> D: << CVideoDevice::IncrementPalette()
> D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::run()...
> >> void CWebCamViewer::TakeSnapshot()
>   D: TakeSnapshot: stampimage = F, stampfile T, savetodisk = T,
> ftptoserver = F, runcommand = F D: CCamPanel::SetSize(352x288)
>   D: CCamPanel::SetImageSize(352x288)
>   D: CCamPanel::SetVisibleSize(352x288)
>   >> void CWebCamViewer::RecalcTotalViewSize()
>   << void CWebCamViewer::RecalcTotalViewSize()
>   W: Could not save image!
> << void CWebCamViewer::TakeSnapshot()
> >> void CCamStreamMainWindow::Quit()
>   >> void CCamStreamMainWindow::CloseAll()
>     >> virtual CWebCamViewer::~CWebCamViewer()
>       >> void CWebCamViewer::StopTimeSnap()
>         >> void CWebCamViewer::StopFTP()
>         << void CWebCamViewer::StopFTP()
>       << void CWebCamViewer::StopTimeSnap()
>       D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::StopCapture()
>       D: Waiting for capture thread to stop...
>       D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::run()...
>       D: Capture thread stopped.
>       D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::DeleteImagesRGB()
>       D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::DeleteImagesRGB()
>       D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::DeleteImagesYUV()
>       D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::DeleteImagesYUV()
>       D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::StopCapture()
>       >> QDomNode CCamStreamApp::FindVideoDeviceConfig(const QString&,
> const QString&, bool) Trying to find video options for Logitech
> QuickCam USB@/dev/video0 << QDomNode
> CCamStreamApp::FindVideoDeviceConfig(const QString&, const QString&,
> bool) << virtual CWebCamViewer::~CWebCamViewer() >> virtual
> CCamWindow::~CCamWindow() << virtual CCamWindow::~CCamWindow()
>   << void CCamStreamMainWindow::CloseAll()
> << void CCamStreamMainWindow::Quit()
> >> virtual CCamStreamMainWindow::~CCamStreamMainWindow()
>   >> void CCamStreamMainWindow::CloseAll()
>   << void CCamStreamMainWindow::CloseAll()
> << virtual CCamStreamMainWindow::~CCamStreamMainWindow()
> >> void CCamStreamApp::SaveConfigFile()
> << void CCamStreamApp::SaveConfigFile()
>
>
> --
> Myles
>
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