MSI StarCam 370i Webcam on Jaunty

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Quinta-feira 20 Agosto 2009, Dotan Cohen escreveu:
> I have the MSI StarCam 370i Webcam and I need to get it working with
> Jaunty. According to this page, "The StarCam 370i
> is compliant with UVC, USB video class":
> http://gadgets.softpedia.com/gadgets/Computer-Peripherals/The-MSI-Sta
>rCam-370i-3105.html
>
> According to the Linux UVC driver and tools download page, "Linux
> 2.6.26 and newer includes the Linux UVC driver natively" which is
> nice as I am on a higher version:
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.28-15-generic
>
> However, plugging in the webcam and testing with camorama, cheese,
> and luvcview led me to no results:
>
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ luvcview -f yuv
> luvcview 0.2.4
>
> SDL information:
>  Video driver: x11
>  A window manager is available
> Device information:
>  Device path:  /dev/video0
> Stream settings:
> ERROR: Requested frame format YUYV is not available and no fallback
> format was found.
>  Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ luvcview -f uyvy
> luvcview 0.2.4
>
> SDL information:
>  Video driver: x11
>  A window manager is available
> Device information:
>  Device path:  /dev/video0
> Stream settings:
> ERROR: Requested frame format UYVY is not available and no fallback
> format was found.
>  Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ luvcview
> luvcview 0.2.4
>
> SDL information:
>  Video driver: x11
>  A window manager is available
> Device information:
>  Device path:  /dev/video0
> Stream settings:
> ERROR: Requested frame format MJPG is not available and no fallback
> format was found.
>  Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
>
>
> Some more details:
>
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ ls /dev/vi*
> /dev/video0
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ dmesg | tail
> [ 2777.811972] sn9c102: V4L2 driver for SN9C1xx PC Camera Controllers
> v1:1.47pre49
> [ 2777.814989] usb 2-1: SN9C105 PC Camera Controller detected
> (vid:pid 0x0C45:0x60FC)
> [ 2777.842123] usb 2-1: HV7131R image sensor detected
> [ 2778.185108] usb 2-1: Initialization succeeded
> [ 2778.185220] usb 2-1: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0
> [ 2778.185225] usb 2-1: Optional device control through 'sysfs'
> interface disabled
> [ 2778.185283] usbcore: registered new interface driver sn9c102
> [ 2778.216691] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
> [ 2778.218738] usbcore: registered new interface driver sonixj
> [ 2778.218745] sonixj: registered
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 413c:8126 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 355
> Bluetooth Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root
> hub Bus 004 Device 004: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse
> Optical Bus 004 Device 003: ID 045e:00db Microsoft Corp. Natural
> Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 V1.0
> Bus 004 Device 002: ID 05e3:0604 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 1.1 Hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0c45:60fc Microdia PC Camera with Mic
> (SN9C105) Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root
> hub jaunty2 at laptop:~$


I have an MS VX-1000 webcam that uses exactly the same chipset as that 
of yours and I can't make it work here either. I've read somewhere that 
there is a problem with the UVC kernel driver that prevents it from 
working. However, I've also read that this has been fixed in later 
versions of the kernel and have seen some reports stating that it works 
out of the box with the kernel used in the next version of Ubuntu 
(karmic). Some people have reported that the embedded mic works ok with 
the current kernel, but the video do not. And that the video works ok 
with the newer kernel, but the mic do not.
However, I did not upgrade to karmic and will wait until the final 
version is available, so I can't say for sure. If you try it, please 
post your findings here.

[]'s
Marcelo