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On 2010-03-13T16:31:32+00:00 Sergey wrote:

Description of problem:
  Webcam is not recognized.
  Tested on F12 (2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64) and Rawhide.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download 
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/desktop-x86_64-20100310.20.iso
2. Make a bootable USB Flash stick from it
3. Boot

Actual results:
  No /dev/video* and big red sign in Cheese

Expected results:
  Device file in /dev/ and some image in cheese/mplayer

Additional info:

Linux version 2.6.33-1.fc13.x86_64
(mockbu...@x86-07.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 4.4.3 20100211
(Red Hat 4.4.3-6) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 19:55:32 UTC 2010

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 174f:6a31 Syntek Web Cam - Asus A8J, F3S, F5R,
VX2S, V1S

Related parts of dmesg output:
...
usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=174f, idProduct=6a31                    
                                        
usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=10              
                                        
usb 1-7: Product: USB2.0                                                        
                                        
usb 1-7: Manufacturer: Syntek                                                   
                                        
...

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On 2010-03-13T16:33:35+00:00 Sergey wrote:

Created attachment 399867
lsusb -vvv

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On 2010-04-06T09:46:01+00:00 Sergey wrote:

Anything else I can help with? I can provide additional information if
needed. And I don't mind to test something, if there's anything to
test...

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On 2010-07-30T11:03:47+00:00 Bug wrote:


This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 
development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

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On 2010-09-03T13:05:54+00:00 Chuck wrote:

Is this still failing on Fedora 14 Alpha and/or F13 with the 2.6.34
kernel installed?

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On 2011-02-06T13:18:13+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Up! Good Sunday everybody.

Yes, here this is still failing on Fedora 14 released with the 2.6.35
kernel (latest stable, as updated via official repositories).

Laptop: Asus V1S-AS004E (Spanish keyboard)
Distro: Fedora 14 x86_64 (KDE)

# uname -a
Linux venus.xapaho.com 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 23 16:04:50 UTC 
2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# lsusb | grep Syntek
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 174f:6a31 Syntek Web Cam - Asus A8J, F3S, F5R, VX2S, V1S

# dmesg | grep "usb 1-3"
[    3.578482] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[    3.942533] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=174f, idProduct=6a31
[    3.942537] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, 
SerialNumber=10
[    3.942540] usb 1-3: Product: USB2.0
[    3.942542] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Syntek

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On 2011-02-06T13:19:10+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Created attachment 477300
lsusb -vvv (webcam section)

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On 2011-02-07T18:18:44+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Here is a long post, which I wish I found here yesterday :)

*Workaround*

  For my specific system and kernel versions, cf. my previous comment,
just above.

  There is a syntek kernel module out there (on sourceforge), which now works 
for me
  (just like it had worked on the same hardware, with Ubuntu, a couple of years 
ago).
  Googling, one can find many users who have based their solution on this code.

  Below were my steps (exhaustive list, rather simple). It will be required to 
repeat them,
    after each kernel update, or until the current svn code gets packaged with 
the kernel ?
    The sooner, the better (for me, anyway ^^)

  For reference :

    http://www.stk.com.tw/product-01.asp?Product_Type=32
      The constructor does proudly "announce" Linux kernel support for the 
product family,
      but in facts, stable kernels would include support only for one of their 
models
      (as supported by the open source project when it got inserted, I guess)

    http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net/
      the latest *release* (2.1.0) did not compile on my system.
      the latest *svn* trunck (rev 99), *did* compile and work correctly.

    http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/syntek
      the Ubuntu folks refer to some 3rd party Makefile which may not be 
recommended here
      (and this tutorial may be outdated already)

  Please note :
   $ = command I did run as normal user
   # = command I did run as root

  1) Get the latest syntek driver code from svn repository on sourceforge
     $ mkdir syntek-svn
     $ cd syntek-svn
     $ svn co 
https://syntekdriver.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/syntekdriver/trunk/driver

     This checked out rev 99 of the trunk, creating a new "driver" subfolder.
     Accepted permanently sourceforge SVN's current fingerprint
       94:74:b3:a9:54:ce:dc:e5:0d:d6:cf:86:b1:40:5a:48:b9:ea:15:de
     which can be verified here using any modern browser (look at the 
certificate)
       https://syntekdriver.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/syntekdriver/

  2) As stated in the README file, compiling does require
     - kernel development resources (package "kernel-devel" & co. were already 
installed here)
       
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel#Building_Only_Kernel_Modules_.28Out_Of_Tree_Modules.29
     - Doxygen, to compile the documentation (optional)
     # yum install doxygen

  3) Compile the kernel module
     $ cd driver
     $ make -f Makefile.standalone driver

  4) If ctags were not available on the system (package "ctags"),
       then the following error came up, which should be safe to ignore (didn't 
try)
     make: ctags: Command not found
     make: *** [driver] Error 127

     Retrying with ctags installed, did compile without any error
     $ make -f Makefile.standalone clean
     # yum install ctags
     $ make -f Makefile.standalone driver

  5) Compile the documentation (optional)
    - despite a large number of warnings, a "doxygen" subfolder appeared in 
"syntek-svn"
    - starting point is "syntek-svn/doxygen/html/index.html"... which looks a 
little outdated :)
     $ make -f Makefile.standalone doc

  6) Install the new kernel module on the system

     Place it in a new "extra" subfolder, ensuring it won't get mixed up with 
official modules
     # mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/extra
     # cp stk11xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/extra

     Load it
     # depmod -a
     # modprobe stk11xx

     This webcam has a small activity led : it did just blink during modprobe
     Now check system messages (quoting only the relevant part here)

     # dmesg
     [ 6695.284811] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
     [ 6695.294104] stk11xx: Syntek USB2.0 webcam driver startup
     [ 6695.294107] stk11xx: Copyright(c) 2006-2009 Nicolas VIVIEN
     [ 6695.294135] stk11xx: Syntek USB2.0 - STK-1135 based webcam found.
     [ 6695.294137] stk11xx: Syntek AVStream USB2.0 1.3M WebCam - Product ID 
0x6A31.
     [ 6695.294140] stk11xx: Release: 0005
     [ 6695.294142] stk11xx: Number of interfaces : 1
     [ 6695.294759] stk11xx: Initialize USB2.0 Syntek Camera
     [ 6695.402091] stk11xx: Check device return error (0x0201 = 0C) !
     [ 6695.477962] stk11xx: Syntek USB2.0 Camera is ready
     [ 6695.479181] stk11xx: Syntek USB2.0 Camera is now controlling video 
device /dev/video0
     [ 6695.479264] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb_stk11xx_driver
     [ 6695.479270] stk11xx: v2.2.0 : Syntek USB Video Camera

  7) Test it

     Start Kopete, menu Settings/Configure: takes a few seconds to open, 
light's on..
       Go to the Video tab and smile to yourself, it's a start :)

     vlc captures the video stream fine, using device "/dev/video0" here.
     Google Talk plugin just works, so does Skype videoconference.
       On my system however, neither of Skype's "test box", nor its local 
video, are drawn.
       This is most probably off-topic, related to a issue I have with the 
"nouveau" driver.

     Test after reboot: the led blinks twice before the login screen,
all still works.

     Save the generated documentation and keep the whole "syntek-svn" folder 
for future use.
     Repeat all steps (update svn, next time) after each kernel update if still 
required.

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On 2011-02-13T14:37:18+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Good Sunday,

New kernel is out, installed, tested : still no support for this webcam.
(2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64)

Unfortunately, here I could not compile the module against this kernel.
This goes beyond my linux knowledge, will report to the module authors.
Here were my steps, any help or comments, very welcome !

  8) Recompiling the module against a new kernel

     Double-checked that kernel-headers and kernel-devel,
     were updated for this kernel
     a. $ yum list installed kernel-*
        Installed Packages
        kernel.x86_64          2.6.35.10-74.fc14  @updates
        kernel.x86_64          2.6.35.11-83.fc14  @updates
        kernel-devel.x86_64    2.6.35.10-74.fc14  @updates
        kernel-devel.x86_64    2.6.35.11-83.fc14  @updates
        kernel-headers.x86_64  2.6.35.11-83.fc14  @updates
     Previous kernel's headers were not added, but replaced (?)

     Checking the module's source repository for updates
     b. $ cd syntek-svn/driver
     c. $ svn up
         (No update is available, latest is still rev. 99)

     If the doc had been updated (which is not the case)
     d. $ make -f Makefile.standalone cleandoc
     e. $ make -f Makefile.standalone doc

     Recompiling the kernel module
     f. $ make -f Makefile.standalone clean
     g. $ make -f Makefile.standalone driver

     If the module was compiled successfully: repeat steps 6 and 7.

At point g. all I get is a long list of declaration errors such as:

  make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64'
  CC [M]  .../syntek-svn/driver/stk11xx-usb.o
  CC [M]  .../syntek-svn/driver/stk11xx-v4l.o
  .../syntek-svn/driver/stk11xx-v4l.c: In function ‘v4l_stk11xx_do_ioctl’:
  .../syntek-svn/driver/stk11xx-v4l.c:668:8: error: ‘VIDIOCGCAP’ undeclared
  (first use in this function)
  ...
  .../syntek-svn/driver/stk11xx-v4l.c:674:27: error: dereferencing pointer to
  incomplete type
  ...
  make: *** [driver] Error 2

Booting under the previous kernel, everything still works just fine.
(2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64)
For completion, I tried again to compile the module: still does.

In the last kernel's release notes, are many entries related to V4L.
Could the video symbols have changed, with no backward compatibility ?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm/v2.6.35/ChangeLog-2.6.35.11

Xavier

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On 2011-02-19T19:40:22+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Good Saturday,

Workaround update

Webcam still work like a charm here ...BUT

* using before-last stable kernel, not the latest stable
  (sticking to 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64)

* using a specific revision of the stk11xx module, not the HEAD
  (sticking to rev. 99 since latest 100:101 won't build here)

  Erratum cf. step 1) and 8) c. here above (respectively):
  $ svn co -r 99 
https://syntekdriver.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/syntekdriver/trunk/driver
  $ svn up -r 99

* with some extra precaution, or the kernel will crash !!
  first time I saw F14 crashing here, you've been warned ^^
  just let each webcam-aware application complete webcam init
  (light blinks on then off)
  before launching another one (eg. two concurrent skype ids)

Detailed info and bug reports I filled today
  
https://sourceforge.net/projects/syntekdriver/forums/forum/616183/topic/3353497
  
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3187002&group_id=178178&atid=884191
  
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3187013&group_id=178178&atid=884191
  
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3187003&group_id=178178&atid=884191

I could reproduce the kernel crash "on-demand" and reported it first via ABRT 
(first crash wasn't detected, system log just aborted), but I can't find its 
URL right now (is kerneloops.org front end in troubles ?), nor can I find 
anything related to 2.6.35 (?).
  
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3187007&group_id=178178&atid=884191

With hope this will helps others already, happy workaround ^^
Any further info needed ?

Xavier

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On 2011-03-05T18:06:12+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Good Saturday,

Today I could reproduce the kernel oops once again (see "extra
precaution here before"), and finally also use ABRT BZ plugin to report
it here

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682459

Any further info needed ?
Best regards,
Xavier

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On 2011-03-25T15:54:11+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Good Friday,

There is a patch available, which prevents the kernel crash mentioned
earlier.

>From my daily use over the past few weeks, I can confirm this provides
me with a stable usage for this webcam on Fedora (still using module
source rev.99 and kernel 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64)

patch:
(to be applied after step 1) and 8) c. here above)
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=178178&atid=884191&file_id=403550&aid=3187007

thread:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3187007&group_id=178178&atid=884191

Xavier

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On 2011-08-26T15:24:51+00:00 Josh wrote:

This isn't going to be fixed in f14.  The best chance you have is to
work with the driver authors to get the driver into the staging tree and
into mainline from there.

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On 2012-02-21T17:38:56+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Hi, this bug still applies to Fedora 16 (kernel 3.2.6-3.fc16.x86_64).

Current HowTo for Fedora 16 (long overdue !) is here.
There were great improvement in sourceforge module in the mean time.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/syntekdriver/forums/forum/616183/topic/5055644

Hope it helps others.


(In reply to comment #12)
> This isn't going to be fixed in f14.  The best chance you have is to work with
> the driver authors to get the driver into the staging tree and into mainline
> from there.

Indeed, thanks Josh. Another module from the same author *is* included
upstream for a while (but does not support this webcam model) :

$ modinfo stkwebcam
filename:       
/lib/modules/3.2.6-3.fc16.x86_64/kernel/drivers/media/video/stkwebcam.ko
description:    Syntek DC1125 webcam driver
author:         Jaime Velasco Juan <jsagarri...@gmail.com> and Nicolas VIVIEN

Thanks,

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On 2013-04-03T18:42:30+00:00 Fedora wrote:

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 
development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 
19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 
End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

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On 2013-04-05T16:48:14+00:00 Justin wrote:

Is this still a problem with 3.9 based F19 kernels?

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On 2013-04-05T18:12:25+00:00 Xavier wrote:

Justin, this month I'm hoping to test Fedora 19 pre-releases on this
hardware...

So far it (still..) greatly runs Fedora 16, latest stock kernel, with
syntekdriver module built locally (from rev-107 at sourceforge, plus a
few remaining patches, now very minor. And I've scripted it all for so
long that I almost forgot about it \o/). Beyond this, I only tested
stock kernels from Live releases (up to F18 final, no respins yet).

F16 up to 3.6.11-4 : unsupported but syntekdriver works flawlessly.
F18 up to 3.6.10-4 : unsupported, syntekdriver not yet tested
any later 3.7+ : not yet tested

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On 2013-04-23T17:25:13+00:00 Justin wrote:

This bug is being closed with INSUFFICIENT_DATA as there has not been a
response in 2 weeks.  If you are still experiencing this issue,
please reopen and attach the relevant data from the latest kernel you are
running and any data that might have been requested previously.

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** Changed in: linux (Fedora)
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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