segfault with gqcam and Sonix Microdia webcam [0c45:62c0]

I have the same hardware and up to date Edgy. Installed gqcam today; executed from terminal and got segmentation fault.
ekiga is the only thing that seems to work with the webcam. It wasn't running when I executed gqcam.

crash report attached.

Paul

Using Hardy Alpha 4, I have success (out of the box) with Microdia webcam 0c45 62c0 using Cheese 2.21.5. However, gqcam and camorama don't detect the webcam when trying to find it at /dev/video/.

What about with Hardy final? Was it fixed between alpha 4 and release? If not, what about Intrepid?

I believe this camera was running under Gutsy for me. With my uptodate Hardy, it fails with this

:~$ cheese
The program 'cheese' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 47 error_code 11 request_code 141 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

HTH

Paul

Can you post the output of "ls -l /dev/video*"?

l:~$ ls -l /dev/video
ls: cannot access /dev/video: No such file or directory
l:~$ ls -l /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2008-08-24 08:50 /dev/video0

I just did some testing. Hadn't used ekiga for a long time. First time thru, it brought up the configuration wizard and froze. Second time it seemed to be working.

Paul

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

I am still running Hardy [up to date], and both gqcam and cheese still behave as they did. Given the state of 8.10 and the difficulties that I've experienced in networking with the liveCD, I'm not up to upgrading at this time.

Are there any tests you would like me to run?

HTH

Paul

setting back to confirmed...

Dimitrios:

I think you sent me an email recently, but it got dumped. If it was anything other than the status change, please resend.

Thnx

Paul

This package has been removed from Karmic because it uses gtk1.2 and this has been removed from Ubuntu. No further bug fixing is anticipated.