[Debian-eeepc-devel] EEE webcam?

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Mon Dec 17 16:41:40 UTC 2007


On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:36:46PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> has anyone managed to get the eee webcam working on Debian?
> 
> I downloaded linux-uvc-source and built the uvcvideo driver with
> module-assistant. The webcam is detected, but I couldn't get any
> further: ekiga refuses to work with that error message:
> 
>   Error while opening video device UVC Camera (eb1a:2761)
>   [..]
>   Your video driver doesn't support the requested video format.
> 
> Has anyone gotten further than that?

The webcam apparently uses UYVY format, as described here:
  http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=44302
It works for me with "luvcview -f yuv", but I get the same error as
you with ekiga.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u



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