[Debian-eeepc-devel] Webcam not working

[Eric Cooper]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:58:09PM +0100, Accio wrote:
> Hi all, I'm new around here. I tryed just today to setup debian on my 
> eee, and I get problems with webcam. I follow p2p the wiki page but I 
> could not use the webcam. Luvcview returns:
> luvcview version 0.2.1
> Video driver: x11
> A window manager is available
> video /dev/video0
> Unable to set format: 22.
>  Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
> 
> I could not find any solution because I'm totally new to Webcams on 
> linux.. Thanks in advance

Did you invoke it as "luvcview -f yuv"?  The webcam driver only
supports a few formats, and those it does incompletely, so a number of
video programs fail when using /dev/video0 on the Eee.

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