[Bug 392310] Re: Omnivision integrated webcam stopped working

[Yoav]

Hi Jeremy,

I haven't experienced that bug since the day I reported it. It seemed to be
related to the kernel version at the time.
Ever since my webcam has been working fine.

Thanks!
Yoav

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Jeremy Foshee
<jeremy.foshee at canonical.com>wrote:

> Hi Atanas,
>
> This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in
> it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try
> with the latest development release of Ubuntu?  ISO CD images are
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> apport-collect -p linux 392310
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> Omnivision integrated webcam stopped working
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> Bug description:
> I have  Dell Inspiron 1721 running Januty with an Omnivision webcam. This
> is a portion of "sudo lsusb -v":
>
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
> Device Descriptor:
>  bLength                18
>  bDescriptorType         1
>  bcdUSB               2.00
>  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
>  bDeviceSubClass         2 ?
>  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
>  bMaxPacketSize0        64
>  idVendor           0x05a9 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
>  idProduct          0x2640
>  bcdDevice            1.00
>  iManufacturer           1 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. -2640-07.05.16.3
>  iProduct                2 Laptop Integrated Webcam
>  iSerial                 0
>  bNumConfigurations      1
>
> As far as I can tell, uvcvideo should support this device. The camera used
> to work out of the box until recently, though I did not take notice of which
> module supported it. The module is loaded but no device is created:
> nasko at serre:~$ sudo lsmod | grep uvcvideo
> uvcvideo               69512  0
> compat_ioctl32         18304  1 uvcvideo
> videodev               45184  2 uvcvideo,compat_ioctl32
> v4l1_compat            23940  2 uvcvideo,videodev
> nasko at serre:~$ ls /dev | grep video
> nasko at serre:~$
>
> I also see some errors in /var/log/syslog but cannot diagnose them:
>
>  nasko at serre:~$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep uvc
> Jun 25 09:32:38 serre kernel: [   18.926906] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00
> device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640)
> Jun 25 09:32:38 serre kernel: [   18.927392] uvcvideo: Failed to query
> (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26).
> Jun 25 09:32:38 serre kernel: [   18.946456] usbcore: registered new
> interface driver uvcvideo
> Jun 25 14:02:01 serre kernel: [16187.379111] usbcore: deregistering
> interface driver uvcvideo
> Jun 25 14:02:04 serre kernel: [16190.792287] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00
> device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640)
> Jun 25 14:02:04 serre kernel: [16190.794006] uvcvideo: Failed to query
> (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26).
> Jun 25 14:02:04 serre kernel: [16190.794730] uvcvideo: Failed to query
> (129) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26).
> Jun 25 14:02:04 serre kernel: [16190.794739] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize
> the device (-5).
> Jun 25 14:02:04 serre kernel: [16190.794885] usbcore: registered new
> interface driver uvcvideo
>
> The full /var/log/syslog is attached. This bug is similar to
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/303755, though I
> don't think they are the same. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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