Bug 441151

Summary:	Eeepc 901/1000 webcam is not working in OpenSuse 11.0/11.1
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Giovanni Masucci <gio.grifis>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	claes.backstrom, herbert
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Other
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Description Giovanni Masucci 2008-11-03 16:47:13 UTC

The webcam of the famous asus eeepc 901/1000 (CNF7129) is not working in apps like kopete, cheese or webkam. Here's what I get if I launch webkam from a terminal:
VIDIOC_ENUMSTD: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_ENUMSTD: Invalid argument 
VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_S_INPUT: Device or resource busy
VIDIOC_S_INPUT: Device or resource busy
VIDIOC_REQBUFS error 16, Device or resource busy
VIDIOC_STREAMON error 16, Device or resource busy
VIDIOC_DQBUF error 16, Device or resource busy   
VIDIOC_DQBUF error 16, Device or resource busy   
VIDIOC_DQBUF error 16, Device or resource busy   
VIDIOC_DQBUF error 16, Device or resource busy   
...goes on...

the strange thing is that it works in skype even if the picture is very very dark...this device uses uvcvideo drivers and the problem is there both in opensuse 11 (kernel 2.6.25) and in the upcoming 11.1 (2.6.27). It works fine in ubuntu hardy/intrepid and in fedora9/10. Not tested with mandriva and debian.
I think it's very important to conquer asus eeepcs for 11.1...there are really a lot of them around these days...

Comment 1 Claes Backstrom 2008-11-11 21:49:50 UTC

Cheese works for me with beta 4.6 on both 701 and 901 even if the picture is very dark.

Comment 2 Giovanni Masucci 2008-11-12 11:34:15 UTC

mmm...that's strange....last time I checked I remember it didn't work...well, I'm on a fresh 11.1 beta4 kde installation and the problem is still here. Can somebody with a 901 and kde try his webcam with a kde4 app like kopete? If I go in the kopete config dialog in the webcam section all I see is a green static screen. No problem in Skype (except the picture is really too dark and there's no way to change this...)

Comment 3 Herbert Graeber 2008-11-19 12:00:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 411561 ***