Webcam as USB sound device?

[C@balen]

Hello everyone. I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.27.31 tex5 and noticed that my webcam no longer works in Skype. Inside PCC > Hardware, it's listed under USB Sound Devices as USB camera. But when I run lsusb, it is correctly identified as 'Microsoft Corp. Lifecam VX-1000'.

How do i go about having it detected properly in PCLOS?

Thanks in advance. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[tom43]

                Happy New Year,

In Skype is your Cam showing in the "input device"?.
2). Have you run "alsaconf" in the Terminal in PCC>System?
3). Have you opened "Volume Control" by right clicking your speaker and checking if the cam is showing in "recording" and the volume is up?
 If you check the above, I'm sure you will get it going.

[daveleh]

Hello everyone. I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.27.31 tex5 and noticed that my webcam no longer works in Skype. Inside PCC > Hardware, it's listed under USB Sound Devices as USB camera. But when I run lsusb, it is correctly identified as 'Microsoft Corp. Lifecam VX-1000'.

How do i go about having it detected properly in PCLOS?

Thanks in advance. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Not a lot of help but, I had a similar problem with my logitech quickcam using that kernel (uses gspca). It worked in wxcam and pidgin but not skype, well it worked but the picture was all garbled. Had to go back to 2.6.16.8.tex4 kernel to get it to work.

Regards

[buccaneere]

It's listed as a USB camera under ANY circumstances, I think because it does I/O data through a USB mobo address (as opposed to PCI mobo address).

Perhaps it's not FULLY identified by make, model, etc., because it's using a fallback/default device driver with the new kernel... If so, maybe you can extract and install the driver from the old kernel install?

[C@balen]

Thank you for all your responses. I will try all your suggestions and will post back my results!

And HAPPY NEW YEAR  to All!!! 

regards,

C@balen

[C@balen]

                Happy New Year,

In Skype is your Cam showing in the "input device"?.
2). Have you run "alsaconf" in the Terminal in PCC>System?
3). Have you opened "Volume Control" by right clicking your speaker and checking if the cam is showing in "recording" and the volume is up?
 If you check the above, I'm sure you will get it going.

Answers:

1.) In Skype's video devices option, it says "Previous webcam not detected (/dev/video0)
2.) I did, but it only detected my soundcard, not the webcam
3.) When i right-click on the speaker, and go "Select Master Channel", i can pull down "USB Camera" as Current Mixer. However, there are no options you can set.

Thank you for your suggestions, tom43. However, i'm still out of luck. Too bad i have no access to another webcam to experiment with

[C@balen]

It's listed as a USB camera under ANY circumstances, I think because it does I/O data through a USB mobo address (as opposed to PCI mobo address).

Perhaps it's not FULLY identified by make, model, etc., because it's using a fallback/default device driver with the new kernel... If so, maybe you can extract and install the driver from the old kernel install?

hi buccaneere, thanks for your reply. How do i go about extracting the driver from the old kernel? sorry, for the noob question...

[C@balen]

Not a lot of help but, I had a similar problem with my logitech quickcam using that kernel (uses gspca). It worked in wxcam and pidgin but not skype, well it worked but the picture was all garbled. Had to go back to 2.6.16.8.tex4 kernel to get it to work.

Regards

thanks for your reply. my webcam doesnt even work in wxcam. i dont have pidgin right now. i'll probably install it just to test...