Bug 177615

Summary:	No video from Logitech webcam. /dev/video output problem.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomas Kouba <tomas>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4	CC:	pfrields, wtogami
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Description Tomas Kouba 2006-01-12 11:56:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
Logitech quickcam pro 4000 webcam is plugged in, driver is loaded:

usbcore: registered new driver Philips webcam

but the output from /dev/video0 does not change ever:

# dd if=/dev/video0 bs=1 | hexdump
0000000 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080
*

In gnomemeeting this is shown as a grey input.

The webcam works fine in kernel 2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp (the input from /dev/video0 
is a lot of various hexadecimal numbers).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel: 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in the camera.
2. Run gnomemeeing and select video input.
  

Actual Results:  gnomemeeing shows only grey area.

Expected Results:  gnomemeeting shouls show input from the camera.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tomas Kouba 2006-01-12 11:58:13 UTC

the same behaviour on colleague's webcam:

Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro USB webcam detected.                              
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:08b1 Logitech, Inc.                                  
idVendor 0x046d Logitech, Inc. idProduct 0x08b1

Comment 2 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2006-01-12 11:59:49 UTC

*** Bug 177614 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Tomas Kouba 2006-01-15 13:22:51 UTC

New version of pwc driver seems to work ok.
http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2006-02-03 06:03:10 UTC

This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs.

A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4)
based upon a new upstream kernel release.

Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches
go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that
may address this problem.

This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state.
Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is
still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed.

Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter
can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list
of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a
comment to the bug.

If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the
release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613.

Thank you.

Comment 5 John Thacker 2006-05-05 12:55:36 UTC

Closing per previous comment.
Sounds like that kernel updates will eventually fix it, as a later
driver version works which should get into upstream.