dear All, when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange thing called Ekiga. Now, some guys at work use Skype and I heard that's owned by Microsoft. So enter James. I bought a webcam, actualy 2, to test Ekiga. Logitech Webcam c210. I saw this url :http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/ on this url :http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams and in short : I think I have the driver i need --V4L2-- on my Centos6 machine. To make sure, I installed everything that came up under # yum search V4L2 with epel testing enabled. #dmesg | tail -n15 shows : usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12 usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0819 usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=2 usb 2-3: SerialNumber: CE6AA1D0 usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device<unnamed> (046d:0819) input: UVC Camera (046d:0819) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/input/input13 still in Ekiga i get error message ( translated from Dutch) : an error occurred with video device UVC Camera (046d:0819) an error occurred when opening the device blahblahbla check access rights or driver. under System - Preferences I can't find anything configurable ( is that even English ?) Can anyone help me configure something somewhere or whatever is needed ? Thanks a million in advance James Opensource Software is the future. -- Johan Vermeulen IT-medewerker Caw De Kempen johan.vermeulen at cawdekempen.be 0479.82.01.41 Opensource Software is the future.
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:55:45 +0200 Johan Vermeulen wrote:> Can anyone help me configure something somewhere or whatever is needed ?Try installing cheese and see if it can find your camera. That doesn't directly get ekiga working but it will tell you if Centos 6 actually supports your camera. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!
Johan Vermeulen wrote:> > when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange > thing called Ekiga.<snip>> # yum search V4L2That's video4linux, btw.> with epel testing enabled. > > #dmesg | tail -n15 shows :<snip>> still in Ekiga i get error message ( translated from Dutch) : > > an error occurred with video device UVC Camera (046d:0819) > an error occurred when opening the device > blahblahbla > check access rights or driver. > > under System - Preferences I can't find anything configurable ( is that > even English ?)Perfectly good English. And it did tell you the problem: access rights. Look at the driver - it might be /dev/video or /dev/video0 - and check the permissions. It may be installed, but only root has rw privileges. If that's the case, one option would be to make it owned by root, but group motion, and add yourself to that group. mark
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Johan Vermeulen wrote:> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be> > Subject: [CentOS] Ekiga - camera > > > > dear All, > > when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed > this strange thing called Ekiga. > > Now, some guys at work use Skype and I heard that's owned > by Microsoft. So enter James. > > I bought a webcam, actualy 2, to test Ekiga. Logitech > Webcam c210. I saw this url > :http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/ on this url > :http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams > and in short : I think I have the driver i need --V4L2-- > on my Centos6 machine.Hello Johan. I've done some looking into this before, and if you checkout my Linux Compatible Webcams Guide you will see that if you use a Logitec c210 which is a UVC camera - and the driver for UVC devices is already built into the newer Linux kernel. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=240812 "However, the current Linux 2.6.26 kernel and newer includes the Linux UVC driver natively. So you will not need to download and compile any driver module source if you purchase a UVC compatible webcam. It should be Plug-n-Play like any other USB device" It looks Like RH may have backported the UVC drivers into the kernel, as I can use my Logitec webcam OK under Skype :) [root at karsites ~]# rpm -qv kernel kernel-2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 kernel-2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 kernel-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 [root at karsites ~]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 006: ID 046d:0802 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C200 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 So I doubt whether it's a Linux driver problem! Kind Regards, Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 01:55 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:> > > dear All, > > when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange thing called Ekiga.You need an ILS server/service or a sip server to make ekiga useful. ILS is going/has gone the way of the dodo...so any sip client that supports video should do. If ekiga does not work, try others.