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.
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.
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 19:08 +0100, Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 12:05 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Try installing cheese .....
Where from ? Yum does not know it.
Thank you,
Paul.
Really? It's on 6.0 at least. Is OP on 5.x?
B.J.
]$ su Password: [root@office2 bmcclure]# yum search cheese Configuration file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf not found Unable to find configuration file for plugin rhnplugin Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, protectbase, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.net.cen.ct.gov * extras: mirrors.seas.harvard.edu * updates: centos.omnispring.com 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections 0 packages excluded due to repository protections =============================== Matched: cheese ================================ cheese.x86_64 : Application for taking pictures and movies from a webcam pygpgme.x86_64 : Python module for working with OpenPGP messages python-decoratortools.noarch : Use class and function decorators -- even in : Python 2.3 python-turbojson.noarch : Python template plugin that supports json
CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 14:37 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Always Learning wrote on 09/21/2011 02:33 PM: ...
I'm on 5.7
But the OP is on 6.
I'm on 5.7 and I have had similar problems. If this Cheese thing can helpfully identify why two web cams, gathering dust, are not recognised in Ekiga, I shall be happier.
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Always Learning centos@u61.u22.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ekiga - camera
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 14:37 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Always Learning wrote on 09/21/2011 02:33 PM: ...
I'm on 5.7
But the OP is on 6.
I'm on 5.7 and I have had similar problems. If this Cheese thing can helpfully identify why two web cams, gathering dust, are not recognised in Ekiga, I shall be happier.
Are they are UVC compliant devices?
Regards,
Keith
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Johan Vermeulen wrote:
when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange thing called Ekiga.
<snip>
# yum search V4L2
That'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
hello Mark and Keith,
I also think a have the driver, because of what dmesg shows.
mark could be right, I had a similar issue with a firewire camera, Kino and /dev/raw1394.
So a did this :
-bash-4.1# groupadd motion -bash-4.1# chgrp motion video0 -bash-4.1# usermod -G motion james -bash-4.1# id james uid=500(james) gid=500(james) groepen=500(james),503(motion) -bash-4.1# ls -la video0 crw-rw----+ 1 root motion 81, 0 sep 21 21:28 video0 -bash-4.1#
hope this is right.
But still same error message, even after reboot ( didn't want to but battery went dead )
So still no video...
greetings, James
Op 21-09-11 20:54, m.roth@5-cent.us schreef:
Johan Vermeulen wrote:
when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange thing called Ekiga.
<snip> > # yum search V4L2 That'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
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I kind of did the same for /dev/v4l
-bash-4.1# ls -la v4l/ totaal 0 drwxrwx---. 4 root motion 80 sep 21 21:28 . drwxrwxrwx. 21 root root 3820 sep 21 21:28 .. drwxrwx---. 2 root motion 60 sep 21 21:28 by-id drwxrwx---. 2 root motion 60 sep 21 21:28 by-path -bash-4.1#
still no luck. error message persists.
Op 21-09-11 21:40, Johan Vermeulen schreef:
hello Mark and Keith,
I also think a have the driver, because of what dmesg shows.
mark could be right, I had a similar issue with a firewire camera, Kino and /dev/raw1394.
So a did this :
-bash-4.1# groupadd motion -bash-4.1# chgrp motion video0 -bash-4.1# usermod -G motion james -bash-4.1# id james uid=500(james) gid=500(james) groepen=500(james),503(motion) -bash-4.1# ls -la video0 crw-rw----+ 1 root motion 81, 0 sep 21 21:28 video0 -bash-4.1#
hope this is right.
But still same error message, even after reboot ( didn't want to but battery went dead )
So still no video...
greetings, James
Op 21-09-11 20:54, m.roth@5-cent.us schreef:
Johan Vermeulen wrote:
when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange thing called Ekiga.
<snip> > # yum search V4L2 That'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
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Johan Vermeulen jvermeulen@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@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@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
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On 09/21/2011 03:34 PM Keith Roberts wrote:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Johan Vermeulen jvermeulen@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.
....
"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"
....
Back when I was handsome I used a webcam. It was a long time ago but I remember one test was to do "cat /dev/video0"... or some other device (if dmesg and /var/log/messages don't say). If you selected the correct device and had the permissions (you could try the command as a regular user or as root), that command would spew out (garbage) characters to the terminal while the cam was moving and seem to pause when the cam wasn't moving and pointed at nothing moving. Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D gave the shell prompt back (as we'd expect).
hth, k.
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.
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 06:43 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
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.
Ekiga works well on Centos 5.6 with a SIP server.
Dear All,
I tested this some more on CentOs 6, tried as root, tried the trick with cat /dev/....but no luck. I would think that somewhere in /var/log there is an error message giving some indication, but found nothing.
So I installed Jitsi, also OpenSource, that gave me video image first time round.
Greetings to All, thanks anyway for the tips.
James
Op 22-09-11 05:24, Always Learning schreef:
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 06:43 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
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.
Ekiga works well on Centos 5.6 with a SIP server.
On 9/24/11, Johan Vermeulen jvermeulen@cawdekempen.be wrote:
Dear All,
I tested this some more on CentOs 6, tried as root, tried the trick with cat /dev/....but no luck. I would think that somewhere in /var/log there is an error message giving some indication, but found nothing.
So I installed Jitsi, also OpenSource, that gave me video image first time round.
Greetings to All, thanks anyway for the tips.
James
Op 22-09-11 05:24, Always Learning schreef:
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 06:43 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
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.
Ekiga works well on Centos 5.6 with a SIP server.
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Excuse me, do you have call hold functionality working on your ekiga? Do we need to have a pbx in between to have this functionality as enabled?
On 09/21/2011 07:55 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
<snip>
Known bug/issue upstream and not yet fixed .. the workaround described in the comments worked for me : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666256
Fabian Arrotin
On 9/25/11, Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin@arrfab.net wrote:
On 09/21/2011 07:55 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
<snip>
Known bug/issue upstream and not yet fixed .. the workaround described in the comments worked for me : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666256
Fabian Arrotin
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Thank you for your reply. Which centos sip client you propose with call hold feature enabled?
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