Logitech QuickCam Messenger

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pauloref · Post by **pauloref** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:21 pm

i have done everithing, but i think my problem is in V4l. the device: /dev/video0 have not been created. please reply on this thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-404217.html

j_c_p · Post by **j_c_p** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:00 pm

Whaou, today, a new version is out

: http://home.mag.cx/messenger/

qc-usb-messenger-0.9.tar.gz (2005-11-21) :

Version 0.9 21 November 2005
Module compiles on kernels > 2.6.12 now.
Added support for newer Messenger cameras (0x046D, 0x08F6)
Ignore commands VIDIOCSCHAN,VIDIOCGCHAN (needed by RealProducer)
Merged some of the changes from qc-usb-0.6.3. (thanks Daniel Neilson)

For the moment, i'm running 2.6.15-rc2 with qc-usb-messenger-0.8 : no problem, but i will test this new version soon

.

HeadHolio · Post by **HeadHolio** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:25 pm

Any chance of merging this into the regular quickcam module? I see no need to have two. Also, we should update the emerge with the new version.

Mongrol · Post by **Mongrol** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:20 am

Hi folks,

I've installed the 0.9 ebuild but get the following error when modprobing quickcam.

FATAL: Error inserting quickcam (/lib/modules/2.6.12.5/drivers/usb/quickcam.ko): Invalid module format

My kernel log shows the following

[kernel] quickcam: version magic '2.6.12.5 preempt PENTIUM4 gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.12.5 preempt PENTIUM4 gcc-3.3

Gcc version mismatch?

fmtn7 · Post by **fmtn7** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:44 pm

Just a quick note to tell ppl I was having problems with the qc-usb-messenger-1.0 driver using my Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX with Vendor and Device ID 046d:08ad (from Logitech, Inc. ).

I tried long and hard, but to no avail, so in search for a different driver, I found that my webcam works with the latest version (20060101) of the spca5xx driver, which I downloaded straight from their website. I untared it, did make and make install and then restarted coldplug, and it finally worked! The spca5xx driver in portage didn't work for me.

Good luck!

PiRmD · Post by **PiRmD** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:37 am

I'm now using the version 1.0 of the driver quite successfully with why quickqm messenger. I've got qnyway two annoying error messqge thqt you guys can maybe help me to solve :

[*]when I plug my webcam, I've got the following error message when running for example camorama : "VIDIOCSYNC: Message trop long" (which means message too long in French). Looking in dmesg I get:

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usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
quickcam: QuickCam USB camera found (driver version QuickCam Messenger/Communicate USB $Date: 2004/12/30 10:00:00 $)
quickcam: Kernel:2.6.14-gentoo-r2 bus:2 class:FF subclass:FF vendor:046D product:08F0
quickcam [48.927870]: poisoning qc in qc_usb_init
quickcam [48.930404]: E00A contains 08F0
quickcam: Sensor VV6450 detected
quickcam [48.932266]: Quickcam snapshot button registered on usb-0000:00:10.1-1/input0
quickcam: Registered device: /dev/video0
quickcam [48.941402]: Very quick shutdown in int_handler !!
quickcam [48.941409]: The driver probably failed to initialize the usb-interface.
quickcam [48.941412]: Please reload module:  rmmod quickcam ; modprobe quickcam
quickcam [55.618225]: open users=1
quickcam [55.652362]: qc_sensor_init: call qc_sensor_setsize0 (324,248)
quickcam [55.653313]: set sensor=324x248 vwin=324x248
quickcam [55.664393]: VIDIOCGWIN: 324,248
quickcam [55.664399]: VIDIOCSWIN: call qc_sensor_setsize 162,124
quickcam [55.665312]: set sensor=162x124 vwin=162x124
quickcam [55.665318]: VIDIOCGWIN: 162,124
quickcam [57.058889]: submit ISOC_URB 0 failed
quickcam [57.058903]: failed qc_isoc_init()=-90
quickcam: unable start isoc
quickcam [57.058908]: failed qc_capt_get()=-90
quickcam [57.058911]: failed qc_v4l_ioctl()=-90
quickcam [57.151353]: close users=0
usbcore: deregistering driver quickcam
quickcam [49.395395]: poisoning qc in qc_usb_exit

Thus, when afterwards I manually do a

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 rmmod quickam&&modprobe quickcam

it works flawlessly

[*]I'm not very satisfied with the colors rendering of my webcam so that I was palying a bit with qset (even if I don't know if it is related with my color problem). But when I do a simple

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qset -r

I obtained an error

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qcset: ioctl VIDIOCGI2C (Bad address)

Do some of you stumble into such a problem?

kaksi · Post by **kaksi** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:20 pm

There is a 1.0 release out. Any ebuild?

kaksi · Post by **kaksi** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:00 pm

This is what I get when trying to compile the 1.0 version:

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>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/qc-usb-messenger-1.0 to /
>>> checksums files   ;-) qc-usb-messenger-1.0.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/1.0-linux-2.6.11.patch
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-qc-usb-messenger-1.0
>>> checksums src_uri ;-) qc-usb-messenger-1.0.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking qc-usb-messenger-1.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0 ...
make -C "/lib/modules/2.6.15-nitro1/build" SUBDIRS="/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0" modules V=1 USER_OPT=""
gcc -Wall -O2 -s qcset.c -o qcset -lm
gcc -Wall -O2 -s input_read.c -o input_read
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-nitro1'
mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.tmp_versions
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0
  gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.qc-driver.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os     -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=i686 -mtune=pentium3 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement  -DNOKERNEL   -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(qc_driver)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(quickcam)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.tmp_qc-driver.o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-driver.c
  gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.qc-vv6450.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os     -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=i686 -mtune=pentium3 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement  -DNOKERNEL   -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(qc_vv6450)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(quickcam)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.tmp_qc-vv6450.o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-vv6450.c
  gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.qc-formats.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os     -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=i686 -mtune=pentium3 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement  -DNOKERNEL   -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(qc_formats)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(quickcam)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.tmp_qc-formats.o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-formats.c
  gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.qc-memory.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os     -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=i686 -mtune=pentium3 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement  -DNOKERNEL   -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(qc_memory)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(quickcam)" -c -o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/.tmp_qc-memory.o /var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-memory.c
/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-driver.c:3393: error: unknown field `owner' specified in initializer
/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-driver.c:3393: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-nitro1'
make: *** [quickcam.ko] Error 2

!!! ERROR: media-video/qc-usb-messenger-1.0 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 15, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

I'm using the nitro 2.6.15 kernel...

PiRmD · Post by **PiRmD** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:27 am

hi kaski,
there is no 1.0 ebuild that I know about. I've built mine by "hacking" the 0.9 ebuild that you can find somewhere on this forum (just changing the 0.9 into 1.0 and upgrading the download url).

I can post the result as sson as I will get the opportunity to reach my Gentoo box (God, 30 year old birthday celebrations are much more exhausting that I would have imagined

)

Anyway, I've got no compiling problem with my standard gentoo kernel (2.14), so I cannot help on your error

d1mag · Post by **d1mag** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:16 pm

I fixed this trivial compilation error and uploaded a new version 1.1.

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/var/tmp/portage/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/work/qc-usb-messenger-1.0/qc-driver.c:3393: error: unknown field `owner' specified in initializer

I have never really used any new kernels until now, since I had to install the latest FC5test1 on a brand new server which didn't boot with other kernels.
I have also made some other minor patches to the MODULE_PARM() which seem to have changed too, but I haven't tested the new driver very much yet...

Could somebody try it and verify it works for most kernels now?

/Christian

rstanchak · Post by **rstanchak** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:12 am

qc-messenger-1.1 works with 2.6.12 for me, whereas qc-messenger-0.8 gave me "unable to isoc" errors in dmesg. My device ID is 046d:08f0 which is supposedly a quickcam messenger.

Sade · Post by **Sade** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:11 pm

anybody got the built-in mic of the 046d:08f0 working?

j_c_p · Post by **j_c_p** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:10 pm

d1mag : your 1.1 package version works with a 2.6.15.2 kernel. Great job, as usual

.

Just a short question however : my webcam (Logitech quickcam communicate) still on when i close xawtv. I've read the files in the tar.gz, and there is a problem with events in the kernel or what ? If you can explain a lot this point, i would appreciate

.

Congratulations for your linux support.

nivw · Post by **nivw** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:02 pm

Hi,
After a reset my setting where forgot.
I want the webcam to be /de/v4l/video1.
I would imagine I need to fix a udev rule.

How to?

aleks3000 · Post by **aleks3000** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:38 pm

got the mic working, once a upon a time...
but i don't know if my way is still working, atm nothing works with my qc messenger...

you gotta compile the following modules from the gentoo-kernel sources -2.6-

snd_usb_audio, snd_usb_lib

and then ad them to you moprobe script with the videodev and quickcam modules...

greetz

Aleks

Sade · Post by **Sade** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:15 am

aleks3000 wrote:got the mic working, once a upon a time...
but i don't know if my way is still working, atm nothing works with my qc messenger...
you gotta compile the following modules from the gentoo-kernel sources -2.6-

snd_usb_audio, snd_usb_lib

and then ad them to you moprobe script with the videodev and quickcam modules...

greetz

Aleks

thx alex, that worked!

aleks3000 · Post by **aleks3000** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:54 pm

Sade wrote:
aleks3000 wrote:got the mic working, once a upon a time...
but i don't know if my way is still working, atm nothing works with my qc messenger...
you gotta compile the following modules from the gentoo-kernel sources -2.6-

snd_usb_audio, snd_usb_lib

and then ad them to you moprobe script with the videodev and quickcam modules...

greetz

Aleks
thx alex, that worked!

glad to help...

KK_r · Post by **KK_r** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:11 am

I'm trying to use ekiga with my quickcam messenger but I get only a quarter of the picture, seems like ekiga don't scale it all right. In xawtv it works OK. Any ideas?

aleks3000 · Post by **aleks3000** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:00 am

got the same prob, works elsewhere (kopete) but not in ekiga,
it's really a pitty! wanted to switch to ekiga from skype due to their lack of linux development.
But the "real" alternative is not completly working... and its always hard to switch to a software which is not avaible in win32 cause most of my friends use M$.

Looking forward for suggestions...

Did you file a bugreport?

KK_r · Post by **KK_r** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:33 pm

No. I checked now and there is a bugreport and ekiga-maintainers will try to fix it.

Rosjahh · Post by **Rosjahh** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:10 pm

KK_r wrote:I'm trying to use ekiga with my quickcam messenger but I get only a quarter of the picture, seems like ekiga don't scale it all right. In xawtv it works OK. Any ideas?

I remember having this a while ago. At that time, there was a resolution hardcoded in an xml config file of ekiga. Enlarging that resolution simply fixed it. I didn't look into it recently, but it could still be the same issue.

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:26 pm

I bought a Logitech QuickCam Messenger today, I installed the driver and modprobed. All without errors, but how do I get the camera to work? I can't for my life get the indicatorlight to get active, which tells me that it ain't working

My dmesg:

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usbcore: registered new driver quickcam
usb 4-1.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 4-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

and if I grep I get:

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 lsusb | grep Logi
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 046d:08da Logitech, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c01e Logitech, Inc. MX518 Optical Mouse

It's there, but no go at all. Ekiga doesn't seem to find it either
TIA

KK_r · Post by **KK_r** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:38 pm

try xawtv -c /dev/video (or what ever device that correspond to your camera)

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:05 pm

xawtv -c /dev/video gives me:

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Warning: Color name "lightgray" is not defined
Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
can't open /dev/video: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video: No such device
no video grabber device available

I may have to rebuild my kernel a bit

KK_r · Post by **KK_r** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:19 pm

Be sure to enable both versions of V4L in the kernel. My webcam only works with version 1. You might want to enable USB audio if you havn't done that to use the camera microphone. If your kernel allready is correctly configured I'm out of advice.

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how to set /dev/video0 -> /dev/v4l/video1 ? (I tried manu

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