Re: [gentoo-amd64] Webcam

[Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>]

Thierry de Coulon:
> No idea about the uvcvideo, but I have an integrated webcam on an
> "old" SOny Picturebook and had to add a few lines in modules.conf
> (the distro in also an old one :) and start xawtv with the -c
> option (I'd guess you did this as well, but just to make sure,
> because on it's own xawtv does not find the camera).

My xawtv does find the camera, and the led coupled to i turns on for a 
moment and then turns off. And I read:

This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.18-serpol-r4)
WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert 
string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0x2b2231e4f49d 
[PAL_B,PAL_G,PAL_H,PAL_I,PAL_K,PAL_Nc,NTSC_M,NTSC_M_JP,?,?,SECAM_G,SECAM_K1,SECAM_L,?ATSC_8_VSB,ATSC_16_VSB,
(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]): Invalid 
argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=MMAP): Success
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_DQBUF(index=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;bytesused=0;flags=0x0 
[];field=ANY;;timecode.type=0;timecode.flags=0;timecode.frames=0;timecode.seconds=0;timecode.minutes=0;timecode.hours=0;timecode.userbits="";sequence=0;memory=unknown): 
Invalid argument

Sergio
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