VLSI Vision CPiA WebCam unable to be used with Ubuntu

[ethana2]

from lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0553:0002 STMicroelectronics Imaging Division (VLSI Vision) CPiA WebCam

On the casing, the webcam has the following text:

Ezonics
EZCam USB
Model No. P10U
P/N:33-160005-0A
S/N: 94910U009646
Rated: +5VDC 250mA Max
Tested to comply with FCC standards

Cheese 2.23.92 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 : Doesn't see device at all
Skype 2.0.0.72 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 : Allows device to selected as video source, segfaults on 'apply'
Cheese in Ubuntu 8.10 : Doesn't see device at all (doesn't see integrated webcam either, but that's a different bug)

[ethana2 (ethana2)]

gstreamer-properties in Ubuntu 8.10 : Doesn't see device at all
Skype 2.0.0.72 on Ubuntu 8.10 : Doesn't see device at all

[ethana2 (ethana2)]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001O3AI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

The above is a picture of this device.

[ethana2 (ethana2)]

From the Ubuntu Jaunty alpha 3 x64 LiveCD :

Ubuntu is still oblivious to aforementioned webcam.
cheese : doesn't notice webcam
gstreamer-properties : doesn't notice webcam

[exactt (giesbert)]

can confirm the problem. cam is recognized by kernel of 9.04 AMD64 but not usable in ekiga or skype.

this is the dmesg output:

[10827.021524] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[10827.193988] usb 2-2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
[10827.193992] usb 2-2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
[10827.193994] usb 2-2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
[10827.193996] usb 2-2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
[10827.193998] usb 2-2: config 1 has no interface number 0
[10827.194109] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[10827.307559] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[10827.320653] V4L-Driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v1.2.3
[10827.320657] Since in-kernel colorspace conversion is not allowed, it is disabled by default now. Users should fix the applications in case they don't work without conversion reenabled by setting the 'colorspace_conv' module parameter to 1
[10827.322459] USB driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v1.2.3
[10827.322484] USB CPiA camera found
[10828.116077] CPiA Version: 1.20 (2.0)
[10828.116080] CPiA PnP-ID: 0553:0002:0100
[10828.116082] VP-Version: 1.0 0100
[10828.116112] usbcore: registered new interface driver cpia

[Charlie Jolly (charlie-jolly)]

Confirmed, output from gnome-device-manager 0.2
Model: CPiA WebCam
vendor: STMicroelectronics Imaging Division (VLSI Vision)
Revision: 1.00
Connection: USB (Universal Serial Bus)
USB Version: ??????.??
Connected at: ??????.?? Mbit/s
Remote Wakeup: No
Bus Powered: Yes
Max. Power: 400 mA

9.04

I have my doubts that there will be anybody interested in fixing this. Webcam is very old!!

[ethana2 (ethana2)]

What's the resolution and framerate of these things anyways?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

ethana2, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Jaunty reached EOL on October 23, 2010.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue on a supported release? If so, can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in a supported release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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