Bug 10850

Summary: Quckcam Messenger is not supported
Product: Drivers Reporter: tonnzor (tonn81)
Component: Video(Other)Assignee: drivers_video-other
Status: REJECTED INVALID    
Severity: high CC: greg
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.24-17 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: Working version of driver (patched to work on 2.6.24)

Description tonnzor 2008-06-03 04:03:41 UTC 
Distribution: Ubuntu
Hardware Environment: USB webcam Logitech QuickCam Messenger (046d:08f6)
Software Environment: xawtv
Problem Description:

This device is not supported by kernel driver (quickcam module), but there is a working open-source solution for it - http://marthy.no-ip.org/download/softwares/qc-usb-messenger-1.7_patched-2.6.24.tar.gz .
Please, integrate this code to current driver to support this device out of the box.

Steps to reproduce: plug in the device and nothing is happened.

This is not a dupe of #8616 .
Comment 1 tonnzor 2008-06-03 04:05:10 UTC 
This device is not supported by _any_ kernel driver, not just quickcam module.
Comment 2 tonnzor 2008-06-03 04:06:45 UTC 
Created attachment 16372 [details]
Working version of driver (patched to work on 2.6.24)
Comment 3 Diego Calleja 2008-06-03 06:51:32 UTC 
It's the author who merges the driver, not other developers. You should contact the author and convince him to merge this driver upstream
Comment 4 Ben Caldwell 2008-08-20 04:23:28 UTC 
There is a new release of this driver at http://home.mag.cx/messenger/source/qc-usb-messenger-1.8.tar.gz 
I have tried to contact the author regarding a merge, but have not received a response. Where to from here?
Comment 5 tonnzor 2008-08-20 07:18:10 UTC 
Does anybody know who are maintainers or authors of these linux mobules: media/video/usbvideo/quickcam_messenger.ko and media/quickcam/quickcam.ko ? Maybe they know what to do.
Comment 6 Alan 2008-09-22 10:09:19 UTC 
Cc'ing Greg as he's been doing a lot of work with new drivers/authors
Comment 7 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-09-22 10:19:25 UTC 
Have you tried the 2.6.27-rc7 kernel release?  There have been a _lot_ of webcam updates in kernels since 2.6.24, so odds are this is already supported.

If not, please let me know and I'll work to resolve this.
Comment 8 tonnzor 2008-09-27 04:24:22 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Have you tried the 2.6.27-rc7 kernel release?  There have been a _lot_ of
> webcam updates in kernels since 2.6.24, so odds are this is already
> supported.
> 
> If not, please let me know and I'll work to resolve this.

I can't try it before Ubuntu 8.10 is released that contains 2.6.27 kernel :-(

I will inform you about results when it comes.
Comment 9 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-09-27 10:51:27 UTC 
If you are stuck with Ubuntu kernels, I suggest you file bugs like this in their bugzilla tool, as we can't do anything about what they support/release.
Comment 10 tonnzor 2008-09-27 11:16:11 UTC 
They add some patches, but use kernel as is. It's not Ubuntu issue but kernel.

So the solution should be make in main kernel, not in Ubuntu patches. Why they distro maintainers should fix driver problems?

Is it an issue that I'm not kernel hacker and don't use Gentoo so it's hard for me to use latest kernel before official distro release?

Never thought open source is an anarchy. :-\
Comment 11 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-09-27 15:14:45 UTC 
It's not "anarchy" at all :)

But if you can't at least build your own kernels, or have a distro that has "release of the day" type kernels, it's a bit hard to coordinate issues between us, and you, especially for new feature requests such as this.

Please work with your distro kernel developers, they are willing and able to do this kind of stuff, they told me in person last week :)