Quickcam USB Problems

[Lonni J Friedman]

If camstream isn't working, then the most logical place to file a bug
is with the camstream developer.  I'm reasonably certain that this is
an API issue.  Note, the last time I looked at camstream (and gave up
using it), it was effectively unmaintained.

On 9/23/07, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
> Hi Lonni,
>
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:41:22 -0700
> "Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear on that. No, I'm not dual booting. I had it
> working in the past on Debian with the qc-usb version 0.6.4 (current v.
> is 0.6.6).
>
> > Anyway, I used to use camstream last year, but it doesn't seem to work
> > at all with newer v4l versions in X.
>
> Right, I got it (camstream) to work earlier this year with Debian Etch
> but since switching to Gentoo (~x86 no less) it's been a no-go.
>
> I'm just trying to determine where to file the bug report, with the
> qc-usb maintainer or gentoo.
>
> The version(s) of v4l/v4l2 currently installed are:
>
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-v4l-0.1.1
> media-plugins/gst-plugins-v4l-0.10.14
> media-plugins/gst-plugins-v4l2-0.10.6
>
> Camstream version:
>
> media-video/camstream-20070315
>
> and the version of camorama that refuses to build:
>
> media-video/camorama-0.18
>
> System info via "emerge --info" is:
>
> Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1,
> glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r7 i686)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
>
> Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:20:01 +0000
>
> app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1
> dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
> dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r5, 2.5.1-r2
> dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
> sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r4
> sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
> sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2,
> 1.10
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.18
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2
> sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
> CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
> CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
>
> * NB: stuff below here is prolly not very interesting but...
>
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
>
> FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
> unmerge-orphans userfetch"
>
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://64.50.236.52/
> http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
> ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
> http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
>
> LANG="en_CA"
>
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
>
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
> --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats
> --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
> --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
>
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
>
> USE="X acl acpi alsa arts audacious bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
> bittorrent bogofilter bonobo branding buttons bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda
> cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom clamav cli colordiff corba cracklib
> crypt cups curl cursors cvs dbus deprecated dia divx djvu dri dvd
> dvdnav dvdr dvdread dvi eds emboss encode epson esd evo fam ffmpeg
> firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gedit gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm
> glade gnome gnome-print gnomecanvas gnomedb gpg2-experimental gpm
> grammar graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtkhtml gzip h323 hal hddtemp iconv
> imagemagick imlib inkjar ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg kde
> kerberos keyring lame lesstif libburn libnotify lm_sensors logrotate
> mad midi mikmod mime mmx mmxext mono motif mouse mp3 mpd mpeg mplayer
> mudflap nautilus ncurses network-cron nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg
> opengl openmp openntpd openssh oss pam pango pcre pdf perl plugin
> plugins png pnm ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar
> readline reflection regex sdk sdl sdl-image sdlaudio seamless-hbars
> sensord session slang spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype
> truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wmp x86
> xface xfce xfs xorg xscreensaver xv" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
> atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371
> es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident
> usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw
> asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug
> ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm
> softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
> KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216
> lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips
> cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic
> nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb
> tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
>
> Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
> LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
>
>
> --
> Myles
>
>
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