Simple problem, not so simple solution as it seems to me. Whenever I try to start viewing my webcam, I get the following error:
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Input/output error
be it cheese, camorama or vlc. Except in some special cases which I can not reproduce, where it will just work. I've tried to compile it as a kernel module or right into the kernel. In both cases, it randomly works sometimes but not reliably.
VLC actually shares some more what's going wrong.
[0x97a63f8] v4l2 demux error: VIDIOC_STREAMON failed
libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy (repeats 10 times)
[0xb7319dc8] v4l2 access error: cannot set input 0: Device or resource busy
[0xb7319dc8] v4l2 access error: cannot set input 0: Device or resource busy
[0x9806cd0] main input error: open of `v4l2:///dev/video0' failed
I cannot quite tell what camera model it is, as it is built into the laptop and the specification sheet won't give more information either: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2009/Mobility2009/Datasheet-Datasheet.HPEliteBook6930p.pdf
lsusb gives me:
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04f2:b053 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 239 Miscellaneous Device
bDeviceSubClass 2 ?
bDeviceProtocol 1 Interface Association
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x04f2 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
idProduct 0xb053
bcdDevice 32.18
iManufacturer 2 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
iProduct 1 CKA7216
iSerial 3 SN0001
bNumConfigurations 1
... much more stuff whose relevance I cannot assess ...
Preloading
Some pages suggest to preload a compatibility library, namely /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so, but no difference:
$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so cheese
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Input/output error
I'll be happy about every suggestion to allow me narrowing down the problem's source and will investigate any further if somebody comes up with an idea where to look.
