As said before, this old & cheap camera is terrible. I have just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my computer in my holidays house and the camera doesn't work anymore. If I run Cheese or Skype in the way described in my previous article, this error message is displayed:
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Input/output error
Anyway, the Input/output error is suspicious: I've just thought the error is due to some unknown USB malfunction or device error. So I have unloaded gspca_STV06xx driver and unplugged the camera. After that, I have connected the camera to another USB port and here we are, now it works fine with Cheese:
and Skype (Options window):
The camera is filming the terrible panorama outside my holidays house.
We need to start Skype in the same way we did on Ubuntu 9.10.
I'd like to understand why the old USB port doesn't work after the upgrade.
I'd like to understand why the old USB port doesn't work after the upgrade.
Best regards.
