dell inspiron 1525 web cam is not working with cheese

[Amr Hassan]

Binary package hint: cheese

I just bought a new dell inspiron 1525, and Cheese is not working with my built-in webcam.
The camera itself is working, during boot, it flashes and it's working fine in vlc and on windows.

Cheese is not picking up any signal from the camera. when I start cheese, the camera is automatically turned on and cheese hangs up and i have to kill it.

[loeppel (loeppel)]

Can confirm this! Same behaviour here!

[Amr Hassan (amr-hassan)]

Apparently, a fix for this problem is available in intrepid's proposed updates. Just turn on the repository and everything should work okay.

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

anyone experience this in 9.04?

[Amr Hassan (amr-hassan)]

It was fixed in intrepid's updates. and working fine in jaunty (9.04) now.

-- Amr

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 20:30, Elias K Gardner <email address hidden> wrote:

> anyone experience this in 9.04?
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> dell inspiron 1525 web cam is not working with cheese
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314998
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[FajardXorg (rehevoli)]

I just installed ubuntu(Jaunty) on Inspiron 1525 and the webcam is not working. I tried installing Cheese, but it did not work.

[linusr (linusr)]

Cheese doesn't work with webcam in my Dell Vostro 1500.

Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6

[Anders (andersja+launchpad-net)]

Is this bug still present?
If yes, please test the webcam in another application (to see if it's a driver problem or a problem with Cheese itself).
Also, please open a terminal and type:
lsusb
and paste the output here - it will enable us to look for the webcam's id (and therefore help you further!

[linusr (linusr)]

I checked today and cheese is working (Dell Vostro 1500)

But I remember webcam driver error on boot up once with Alpha 6

[linusr (linusr)]

Sep 29 06:53:06 DeepBlue kernel: [ 18.201729] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
Sep 29 06:53:06 DeepBlue kernel: [ 18.202962] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
Sep 29 06:53:07 DeepBlue kernel: [ 18.203029] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).

This is exactly the error i get but not always. Its not related to cheese!! Should I open a new bug report?

Ubuntu 9.10, Dell Vostro 1500

[linusr (linusr)]

Oct 5 18:49:48 DeepBlue kernel: [ 7.443471] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
Oct 5 18:49:48 DeepBlue kernel: [ 7.443539] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
Oct 5 18:49:48 DeepBlue kernel: [ 7.443644] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
Oct 5 18:49:48 DeepBlue kernel: [ 7.443648] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)

it doesn't occur every time. so far twice a week

[Vish (vish)]

This is a kernel bug and not a bug in cheese as mentioned in Upstream comments.

Marking as confirmed from the comments

[Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen (mikini)]

Also ran into this today on a Dell Inspiron 1525. This was a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 install.

USB device id of the cam is 05a9:2640 (OmniVision OV2640 (Dell Inspiron 1420/1720 notebooks)), which according to upstream UVC (USB Video Class) driver documentation on http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#devices ought to be supported.

I see the same initialization error as linusr:

[ 7.028381] input: Dell WMI hotkeys as /devices/virtual/input/input5
[ 7.034307] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640)
[ 7.035699] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
[ 7.035813] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
[ 7.035877] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
[ 7.036126] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 7.036134] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
[ 7.104657] lp: driver loaded but no devices found

I can provide more info or do some tests on request.

[jtzero (jtzero)]

I'm not sure how helpful this is but I had the same issue (on 10.04), and when i ran sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-restricted-extras it started working again, the video quality is horrid, but at least its usable now....

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Amr Hassan, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/314998/comments/4 regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.