QuickCam E2500

Hi guys,

I made the biggest mistake one can imagine if using linux: I bought a webcam which is on no list for supported devices.

The Camera is named Logitech Quickcam E2500 and id's ID is 046d:089d.
Has anyone experiences with this guy or any ideas how to make it work?


Thanks

Since this is a new camera, and I don't have any personal information on it, can you give me the 8-series level part number from the tag, and the actual name that Logitech has on the packaging?


I can tell you that the E2500 is a PEPI2 camera (VC302 chip), so it *should* use the spca driver (with whatever modifications are necessary to make it work).


Thanks.

Hi KachiWachi,

I am not sure which number you need. There is only this one: 960-000225 and on the manual: 620-001002.002 and the name is Logitech Quickcam E2500.

I hope this helps and many thanks in advance for you're time.

You should try the gspca driver. In order to get it to recognize your camera you'll need to add the VID/PID into the driver's list of supported devices and then recompile it.

Please let us know if it works. You can also contact Michel Xhaard, the driver's author once you have any results.

Hi again,

thanks for the reply, unfortunately I am a kind of a noob. So in which file do I need to add the PID? And is this the number lsusb is giving me?

Thanks again....

I don't remember by heart which file it is but if you search for the VID in the sources ("046d") you'll find the appropriate file.

Yes, lsusb gives you the VID and PID. You may have to play around with the other data in that table. The data for the camera with VID 046d and PID 08dd should be a good starting point to try.

Hi,

so I found a file called gspca_core.c and put the informations for my camera into it. However, there is still no effect after compiling the driver. DMESG tells me that gspca is loaded but still there is only a new unknown usb device listed. There is also afile called gspca_core.o and this one is according to the output of make install processed but I cannot open it with a text editor. Is this probably the real file? Does anyone here ever tried to put in a camera by hand and probably can think of something I forgot to do??

Felix

@MissingX -

I was looking for the "friendly name" of the camera.

Example

QuickCam Communicate MP (S5500)
QuickCam Communicate Deluxe (S7500)


As for the 8-series level part number (P/N), this information can be found on the USB cable tag.




Thanks.

Ahh OK, got it:

M/N V-UCV39
P/N 860-000114
PID LZ613BC

Hello, are there any news about this Camera? I already tried to modify the driver and i even get a /dev/video an can select the Camera in Skype, but it simply doesnt work. (I already posted what dmesg gives me: http://forums.quickcamteam.net/showthread.php?tid=349). I think there is still something wrong with my switch case direction in gspca_core.c in line 3339. I think the sensor and/or the bridge are not correct. What do i have to put there?

FYI .. http://forums.quickcamteam.net/showthread.php?tid=382

br.

I'm having the same problem. Same P/N V-UCV39. Common name (on the box, anyway) is the Logitech QuickCam Connect. On sale this week at a box store!?

-songstruck

@MissingX -

I was looking for the "friendly name" of the camera.

Example

QuickCam Communicate MP (S5500)
QuickCam Communicate Deluxe (S7500)


As for the 8-series level part number (P/N), this information can be found on the USB cable tag.




Thanks.

Hi,

i got it to work with the gspca driver. I attached the Patch.

Hi, I see you got this damned thing to work

Could you please tell me, how I can do it step by step.

I have no idea, what I must do with this DIFF file...



P.S. excuse my english

This is a new Package of the Patch. The old one was not a real .tar.gz, it was only a .tar. The contents didn't change.

Hi,
i have also a problem with the E2500. I have patched my gspcav1-20071224 source with an " patch -p1 < ../quickcamE2500.diff " and it was sucessfull.
But if i put the webcam in the usb port, i only see the follow in /var/log/messages and i have no /dev/video or /dev/video0.

/var/log/messages:
------------------------------
Aug 9 17:00:14 sam kernel: [ 935.125100] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
Aug 9 17:00:14 sam kernel: [ 935.130820] usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
Aug 9 17:00:14 sam kernel: [ 935.130827] /build/buildd/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-2.6.24/debian/build/build-generic/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.20 registered
Aug 9 17:00:56 sam kernel: [ 1730.897638] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Aug 9 17:00:56 sam kernel: [ 1731.088613] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Aug 9 17:00:56 sam kernel: [ 1731.486502] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
Aug 9 17:00:58 sam pulseaudio[5975]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 16000 Hz.
Aug 9 17:00:58 sam pulseaudio[5975]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 1.
------------------------------

Can you please help me?

Eric

Hi guys, I managed to get this camera working as well, after a bit of fiddling. It seems the autoexpo option in the gspca driver is a bit unhelpful if you're trying to use skype, otherwise it's fine (worked on xawtv without). I posted a step by step guide for newbies like myself on my blog, hope it helps someone out. Cheers to redeye for that patch.

http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/08/logi...ntu-skype/

only problem on skype is it freezes after a while!

edit: hopefully sorted the freezing on skype now too - used gstfakevideo and it bought the CPU usage down from 100% for some reason. Haven't tested extensively though.

This post was last modified: 2008-08-13 15:49 by actionshrimp.

The patch provided above does work for the Logitech Quickcam E2500 but no other logitech webcam (with product id 0×046d) will work with the gspca driver then.
This is due to a bad placement of the case for the model id 089d.

The following patch will let all other logitech webcams work as usual with the gspca driver, providing support for the E2500 also.

This post was last modified: 2008-09-16 04:40 by brice.

Has anyone tried this camera with kernel 2.6.27?

First i tried to use the force_sensor parameter of gspca_zc3xx, but that doesn't work.

Without patching the kernel the camera isn't recognized. So i added

to

Then a /dev/video0 device is created but i can't see a picture.

With kernel 2.6.27, following your instructions, I added :

to

at line 7527 of drivers/media/video/gspca/zc3xx.c
Then a /dev/video0 device is created and :
- it does work with amsn correctly, but an error appears in the console at every displayed frame "Corrupt JPEG data, premature end of data segment" ;
- it displays random pixels in Skype, unusable ;
- I get the following error with gstreamer based programs, with no picture at all, as in the following example :
gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! xvimagesink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/v4l2src0: Could not negotiate format
Additional debug info:
gstbasesrc.c(2359): gst_base_src_start (): /pipeline0/v4l2src0:
Check your filtered caps, if any
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

That's wired. Why are the JPEG frames broken?

Can this come from a wrong SENSOR - BRIDGE combination?

I will try what it does without the .driver_info option.

It doesn't change anything. So we need additional help...
Is anybody out there who understands the source code, so that he can tell us how broken JPEG frames can be generated?

How did you know that gspca_zc3xx was the correct one out of all the choices?

And has anyone tried any of the v4l stuff yasou talks about here (one of the very last comments, "yasou wrote on 2008-11-08"):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...bug/273727

This post was last modified: 2008-11-13 09:04 by actionshrimp.

I don't know if its the correct choice. But in the old patch zc3xx was used. And because this is only a new version i think it must be the same sensor / bridge combination...

Has someone tried something diffrent?

Got it working on ubuntu using the gspca-source package (the gspca source downloaded off the gspca website works fine), and a patch on here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t...ight=e2500

The source wouldnt compile before, but patched it does, and then rmmod gspca_main, modprobe gspca (the newly compiled one) seems to do the trick, if you watch out for a few permission problems which can occur... a lot of apps get permission denied /dev/video0 unless you run the app sudo. Maybe not ideal, but at least I can get video on skype again now...