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Re: [opensuse] webcam video dark, maybe wrong driver?
by George OLson 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

On 11/01/2011 06:03 PM, C wrote: > Since you see an image, and the problem is it's very dark, you might > be able to just fix it by adjusting the gamma. You can install/use > v4l2ucp to do this... I "think" it will do the job. I don't know the > CLI stuff to tweak the gamma for that cam... and v4l2ucp usually does > the job. It's in the openSUSE repos somewhere. You can read about it > here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/v4l2ucp/ > > C. Ok, I installed the v4l2ucp application, and it works! Thanks! That made things easy. I now have a follow up question, though. Cheese and wxCam do not allow any change in audio settings, so on capture video it only does video, and will not capture the audio with it. Is there a better program that will allow simultaneous video and audio capture? I have tried kdenlive, and could not find a video capture setting on it. G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] [SOLVED] Re: [opensuse-kde3] Compiz on 11.4 with kde3? Anybody? RPMs from where?
by David C. Rankin 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

On 10/28/2011 02:11 PM, Ilya Chernykh wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2011 22:14:03 David C. Rankin wrote: > >>>> Did you have to modify your xorg config to get compiz running? >>> >>> No. Do other Python applications work well? >> >> Well, honestly, I don't know. I presume they are all working OK, because I >> have never seen this error before and -- surely opensuse 11.4 has more python >> based apps than just fusion-icon and compizconfig-settings-manager.... ccsm >> opens fine, but as soon as I click on one of the widgets (i.e. "General >> Options"), then I get the python errors. > > Something wrong with versions of installed > packages. Try to remove extra packages and then to reinstall the rest. > > Also check the following bugreport: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705634 > Ilya, Thanks! I got it working! http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/11.4/compiz/screenshot.jpg The problem was a mixed version that I didn't discover until I went to remove everything and found the dependency: [23:54 alchemy:/home/david/suse/114/rpm/compiz] # rpm -e compiz compiz-bcop compiz-branding-openSUSE compiz-branding-SLE compiz-branding-upstream compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-devel compiz-emerald compiz-emerald-devel compiz-kde3 compiz-kde3-debuginfo compiz-plugin-photowheel compiz-plugins-main compiz-plugins-unsupported fusion-icon fusion-icon-gtk fusion-icon-qt3 libcompizconfig python-compizconfig error: Failed dependencies: python-compizconfig is needed by (installed) python-ccm-0.9.2.1-4.1.noarch ^^^^^^ I removed everything and then reinstalled: compiz-0.8.8-7.1.x86_64 compiz-branding-openSUSE-0.8.8-7.1.x86_64 compizconfig-settings-manager-0.8.4-5.2.noarch compiz-emerald-0.8.8-11.1.x86_64 compiz-kde3-0.8.8-7.1.x86_64 compiz-plugin-photowheel-0.8.6.git-3.1.x86_64 compiz-plugins-extra-0.8.8-6.8.x86_64 compiz-plugins-main-0.8.8-4.3.x86_64 compiz-plugins-unsupported-0.8.8-6.8.x86_64 fusion-icon-0.1-4.1.noarch fusion-icon-gtk-0.1-4.1.noarch fusion-icon-qt3-0.1-4.1.noarch libcompizconfig-0.8.8-4.1.x86_64 python-compizconfig-0.8.4-6.1.x86_64 emerald is working as well. Still a bit of xorg config needed, performance is a bit slow, but I think I can re-enable the extensions and get a bit better performance. Great stuff - thanks again! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] webcam video dark, maybe wrong driver?
by George OLson 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hello, I have an A4Tech PK-720G webcam plugged into my USB port. It has a built in microphone. I managed to get skype to pick up the camera microphone input (using pulse audio manager), and the video works to some degree, but it shows a very dark image even when I am in a very well-lighted room. Skype says it is using A4TECH USB2.0 PC CAMERA J(/dev/video0) If I run lsusb, the third line shows the following: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ac8:c40a Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Also, the lines related to video when I run lsmod show the following: uvcvideo 70281 0 videodev 81448 1 uvcvideo v4l1_compat 17505 2 uvcvideo,videodev v4l2_compat_ioctl32 10573 1 videodev I don't really know what those indications mean, and I am kind of at a loss as to what to do next. I google searched for a driver that linux can use with this camera and couldn't find anything. How do I find a correct driver for this camera and what do I need to tweak to make it work right? Thanks George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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