Cannot start capture daemon with Quickcam Express

[bbchops]

Hi, I've set up Zone Minder 0.9.15 on SuSE 8.0 with 2.4.18 kernel.

Whenever I run

zmc --device 0

it returns immediately and I get the following logged:

Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = ]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [Got 1 monitors]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [X:0]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [Y:0]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [W:352]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [H:288]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [P:4]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [D:24]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [B:46080]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [h:32768]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [Cl:32768]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: INF [Cn:32768]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin zmc-d0[25497]: ERR [Failed to set picture attributes: Invalid argument]
Jul 21 04:40:28 macguffin kernel: quickcam_ioctl: VIDIOCSWIN vw.flags 30 vw.clipcount 0


The camera does work with xawtv however.

Any pointers on what's going wrong here?

[zoneminder]

Hi Billy,

I'm not sure why it fails but some drivers report a failure but are quite happy to carry on. Have you tried setting the STRICT_VIDEO_CONFIG option off as it will make errors like these non-fatal. Hopefully it will get you a little further at least.

Phil,

[will]

As far as I am concerned, I have the same cam than you but it does work.I use a Mandrake 9.1.
xawtv has to be started with the -c option...