Hi! sorry for answer my own email... but the problem with ekiga was solved installing the libpt-xxx-plugins-v4l2 packages, and choosing the v4l2 plugin in the ekiga video configuration.
Regards Marcelo 2010/1/18 Marcelo Chiapparini <marcelo.chia...@gmail.com> > Hello > > I am running Lenny. I have a Microsoft Life Cam VX5000 usb camera. This > camera works like a charm with skype (v 2.1.0.47), chesse and luvcview. But > it doesn't work with ekiga. Each time I run ekiga I get the message: > > Error while opening video device Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 > A moving logo will be transmitted during calls. Notice that you can always > transmit a given image or the moving logo by choosing "Picture" as video > plugin and "MovingLogo" or "StaticPicture" as device. > Your video driver doesn't support the requested video format. > > Apparently, it is a problem with v4, l: > > $ v4l-conf > v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0 > dga: version 2.0 > X Error of failed request: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode > Major opcode of failed request: 136 (XFree86-DGA) > Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL) > Serial number of failed request: 13 > Current serial number in output stream: 13 > > The uvc module is loaded: > > $ lsmod | grep uvc > uvcvideo 45800 0 > compat_ioctl32 1312 1 uvcvideo > videodev 27520 1 uvcvideo > v4l1_compat 12260 2 uvcvideo,videodev > usbcore 118192 7 > snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd > > Just in case the output of lsusb is: > > $ lsusb > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. > <----------------------------- VX5000 > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 004 Device 003: ID 045e:0728 Microsoft Corp. > <----------------------------- VX5000 > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > > My video card is a Radeon 9100: > > $lspci > ..... > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QM > [Radeon 9100] > .... > > I am googling looking for a solution, but with out success. Any help will > be welcome. > > Thanks in advance, regards > > Marcelo > > > > -- Marcelo Chiapparini http://sites.google.com/site/marcelochiapparini
