Video output of webcam is always grey

[Daniel Coquette]

The philips Toucam II Pro webcam is useless under Breezy. All frontend (gnomemeeting, camorama, etc.) display a flat gray image instead of the video.
It work out of the box with Hoary.

This is a known issue with 2.6.12 kernel. It seems that pwc module was broken : see "[pwc] Kernel 2.6.12.3; grey video output" in http://lists.saillard.org/pipermail/pwc/2005-August/thread.html

Installing pwc-10.0.7a.tar.bz2 solve this problem.

Useful links :
[1] (en) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=61078
[2] (en) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … ght=webcam
[3] pwc website - http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/
[4] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=345441&postcount=3

[Daniel Coquette (yarod)]

This bug is also encountered with other webcam (logitech 4000 Pro, etc.) - So it may affect other drivers than pwc.

[Daniel Coquette (yarod)]

logitech 4000 Pro use the pwc driver... sorry for the mistake.