Comments on: Gear head cheap Web camera (093a:2620) in Linux

By: A

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:35:10 +0000

actually its 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.centos.plus

By: A

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:34:30 +0000

I just got the WC735I GearHead from Microcenter for ~$12. I run 2.6.19 ( Centos 5.2 stock i believe). It picked up the camera right away. It identified it as :
Vimicro USB Camera (Altair) (0ac8:3450)
the quality is ok, i guess. the only single problem i have is that i can’t get the sound working. Mplayer says “no sound”..
Any help?
P.S. I plugged it into winxp it shows some input from the mic. so i’m guessing it’s either linux driver or the actual port.

By: Marcos Adauto

Marcos Adauto — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:10:09 +0000

Hi , when viewing at your blog i see some kind of weird codes all over the page, in case it’s important I just thought I’d let you know it says this with all sorts of other stuff after it: Message : Exception of type ‘System.Web.HttpUnhandledException’ was thrown.

By: Bbp

Bbp — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:27:18 +0000

Thanks

I had this WebCam in my gadget box for a while and I never managed to make it work. I recently decide to give it a go so I plug it and it now works out of the box with kernel 2.6.32. I don’t even have the green screen problem in Skype. Unfortunately, it has a very poor quality. My other WebCam of similar price is much better.

Anyway, thanks for this article, your v4lucp solution is very nice (now called v4l2ucp). I though I would have to put it back to the gadget box, but I’m actually able to get something out of it with that tool!

By: swamytk

swamytk — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:33:01 +0000

OK provided a link to this source url.

By: Remote Computer Repair

Remote Computer Repair — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:39:22 +0000

Would it be okay if I displayed part of this on my website if I link back?

By: Iain

Iain — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:40:16 +0000

Thank you, the problem with the green screen has been annoying me for a while. Not any more though.

By: HOWTO: Update Ubuntu with latest kernel

HOWTO: Update Ubuntu with latest kernel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:37:42 +0000

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By: swamytk

swamytk — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:51:14 +0000

>Step 8: If necessary create a initramfs also depends on your distribution.
Ensure that you have created initramfs properly. Ubuntu needs initramfs. Your root file system driver should be available in initramfs.

By: Sarah White

Sarah White — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:41:52 +0000

I tried doing this, and I’ve followed the directions, but it just isn’t working. when starting up in the new kernel This is displayed on the screen:

Starting up…
[ 0.177595] pci 0000:01:00.0:BAR 6: can’t allocate mem resource [0xf0000000-0xefffffff]
[ 1.545698] IO APIC resources could be not be allocated.
Loading, please wait…
WARNING: Couldn’t open directory /lib/modules/2.6.28.7: No such file or directory
FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.28.7/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
Check rootdelay = (did the system wait long enough?)
Check root = (did the system wait for the right device?)
Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/5c882d4e-7854-489e-beca-c3a3065b4347 does not exist. Dropping to a shell.

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

any ideas???