Latest working kernel version: NA Earliest failing kernel version: Distribution: Fedora 9 Hardware Environment: i686 Software Environment: Problem Description: QuickCam doesn't work with ekiga or skype (haven't tried it with anything else). Same camera used to work when driver outside mainline was installed. Steps to reproduce: try selecting the QuickCam Chat device in ekiga or skype ekiga fails like this: Your driver doesn't seem to support any of the color formats supported by Ekiga. skype exits.
FYI, the ID of this camera is 046d:092e. I've tested it with 2.6.27-rc[3456] with the same results. This ID is listed in Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt as a "Logitech QC Elch2".
Those applications do not work because the cam produces a video format which they do not understand. This can be fixed by using libv4l, see: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html?mode=reply The latest libv4l is available in rawhide, either get it there or download it here: http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/libv4l-0.4.2.tar.gz And then: tar xvfz libv4l-0.4.2.tar.gz cd libv4l-0.4.2 make sudo make install PREFIX=/usr or: sudo make install PREFIX=/usr LIBDIR=/usr/lib64 (on x86_64) Then do: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so or on x86_64: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so And then (finally) start up ekiga or skype (from the same terminal as where the export was done) to give the cam a try. In a dark room you will want to change the exposure setting use v4l2ucp for this: http://v4l2ucp.sourceforge.net/ Most opensource applications are being patched to directly use libv4l so that the LD_PRELOAD hack is not necessary, see: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Libv4l_Progress This should fix your problems, so I'm closing this. If you still have trouble feel free to reopen this bug.