Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting and Motioneye camera in Sony Vaio not working

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 02 juin 2005 à 23:59 +0200, Benedek Frank a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> I have a Debian Sarge with 2.6.11 kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-C1VRX/K laptop. 
> It has a Motioneye camera built in, that works with many video4linux apps, 
> like Xawtv, Effecttv, etc. When I try to make gnomemeeting work with this 
> camera, I get an error saying:
> 
> When I use the config tool it prompts me to select the video manager. I have 
> only one reasonable option which is not (picture) and that is V4L2. When I 


I guess there is a bug in the package. Just do 'apt-get install
libpt-plugins-v4l' and choose V4L as plugin.

V4L2 is unstable and basically rarely usable as most drivers are still
V4L1- based (like it is the case for you).

> choose this, I click forward I can select Input Device. Two choices 
> are /dev/video0 and /dev/video0. Yes the two are the same. No matter which of 
> the two I choose, when I click on test, it says Error while 
> opening /dev/video0
> 
> When I run xawtv with the following command
> 
> ben vaio:~$ xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 320x240
> 
> I can see the output of the camera. 
> 
> Now all of this was done when I load the "meye" module by forcing to use V4L1, 
> otherwise even xawtv doesnt work.
> 
> When I dont do that, and I load the "meye" module as default with V4L2 
> support, I get a different error from gnomemeeting, 
> 
> "Your driver doesn't seem to support any of the colour formats supported by 
> GnomeMeeting.
>  Please check your kernel driver documentation in order to determine which 
> Palette is supported."
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ben
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