Bug 17143

Summary:	Hal does Not Recognize Video4Linux Device created by Coriander and vloopback
Product:	hal	Reporter:	Rob Kennedy <amtor>
Component:	hald	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	danny.kukawka
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	/sys/devices

Description Rob Kennedy 2008-08-14 17:31:14 UTC

Created attachment 18288 [details]
/sys/devices

I have an external Apple iSight firewire webcam.  I am using coriander and vloopback to create a video4linux device.  The webcam works great with applications like Ekiga and gqcam.  

But the webcam does not work with Cheese or Skype.  I filed a bug with cheese ( see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545190 ) where I discovered that Hal is not seeing the iSight as a Video4Linux device.

When I do "hal-find-by-capability --capability video4linux" nothing s returned.  Yet Ekiga and gqcam both see my iSight Firewire camera (being piped through coriander and vloopback) as a Video4Linux Device.

I do hope you can get hal to see my iSight as a V4L device.  

RobK

P.S.I am not too impressed with Linux's support of Firewire webcams.  Coriander eats up a lot of CPU.  Perhaps, you can find a way for hal to directly support Firewire webcams and make them appear as v4l devices.

Comment 1 Danny Kukawka 2008-10-02 04:33:39 UTC

Please run/start hal in debug mode (hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog), check if HAL is ready (check e.g. with lshal) and attach then the part of /var/log/messages since you started HAL to this bug.

Comment 2 Danny Kukawka 2009-07-28 05:20:56 UTC

No info since 8 months, close bug.

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