Re: Old webcam problems

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, gene heskett wrote:

> Hi folks;
> 
> I have an elderly labtec webcan, usb interface that can run (theoretically) 
> in 640x480 as well as 320x240.  Plugged directly into a motherboard 
> breakout port, it runs well at 320x240, but if I select 640x480 in cheese, 
> it only works for about 15% of a frame and errors out with hundreds of 
> these lines in the terminal window I launched it from:
> 
> libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: fill_nbits error: need 7 more bits
> libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: fill_nbits error: need 3 more bits
> libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: fill_nbits error: need 4 more bits
> libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: fill_nbits error: need 2 more bits
> 
> The driver appears to be the (from lsmod)
> gspca_zc3xx            34210  0 
> gspca_main             17233  1 gspca_zc3xx
> 
> From dmesg:
> [gene@coyote log]$ grep gspca dmesg
> gspca: main v2.10.0 registered
> gspca: probing 046d:08a2
> gspca: video0 created
> 
> I can make it work about 90% of the time when booted to 2.6.35.7, but its a 
> 100% failure with 2.6.36 until I select 320x240.
> 
> Is there anything I can do?

Did you build the kernel with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG?  Did you check the 
dmesg log?

Did you post to the linux-media mailing list?

Alan Stern

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