Comment 12 for bug 197659

The situation is worse than when I've reported the issue.

Even with gstreamer-properties I'm not able to see the camera image.

dmesg output:

[21696.424050] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[21696.602380] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[21696.605519] quickcam: QuickCam USB camera found (driver version QuickCam USB 0.6.6 $Date: 2006/11/04 08:38:14 $)
[21696.605536] quickcam: Kernel:2.6.27-10-generic bus:3 class:FF subclass:FF vendor:046D product:0840
[21696.628022] quickcam: Sensor PB-0100/0101 detected
[21696.629418] quickcam: Registered device: /dev/video0

lsmod output:

Module Size Used by
quickcam 81188 0
videodev 41344 1 quickcam
v4l1_compat 22404 1 videodev
...

gstreamer-properties output:

gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'glimagesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lmjpegsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'qcamsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdmon'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'Video for Linux (v4l)': Could not get/set settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(198): gst_v4l_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4lSrc:v4lsrc4:
Device opened, but wrong type (0x0)]

pacaud@lappc-p087:~$ gst-launch-0.10 v4lsrc ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink .
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4lSrc:v4lsrc0: Could not get/set settings from/on resource.
Additional debug info:
v4l_calls.c(198): gst_v4l_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4lSrc:v4lsrc0:
Device opened, but wrong type (0x0)
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

pacaud@lappc-p087:~$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink .
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
libv4l2: error getting capabilities: Unknown error 515
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0: Error getting capabilities for device '/dev/video0': It isn't a v4l2 driver. Check if it is a v4l1 driver.
Additional debug info:
v4l2_calls.c(95): gst_v4l2_get_capabilities (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0:
system error: Unknown error 515
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...