[Linux-uvc-devel] Acer Webcam/ linux fedora 7

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Saturday 18 August 2007, Mickael Drean wrote:
> 2007/8/18, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at skynet.be>:
> > Hi Mickaël,
> >
> > On Saturday 18 August 2007, Mickael Drean wrote:
> > > I've tested to launch luvcvideo on GNOME instead of KDE and I get an
> >
> > error
> >
> > > message :
> > > luvcview version 0.2.1
> > > Video driver: x11
> > > A window manager is available
> > > video /dev/video0
> > > Unable to set format: 16.
> > >  Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
> >
> > What do you get in dmesg ?
>
> Nothing, but you talked about possibility to add trace with a '255' value.
> I didn't do it because I don't know how to do it, could you please specify
> me how to do maybe we will have more info with thoses traces.

Error 16 is EBUSY. You can't stream from the webcam using two programs at 
once. Are you sure that there wasn't still an old instance of luvcview 
running ?

Laurent Pinchart