Lenovo webcam doesn't work

Guan · Post by **Guan** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:34 am

Hello all,
I recently tried to install a webcam that I have through wine. When I ran the windows xp/2000/vista/win7 driver through wine, this was the output I saw in terminal

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fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x8fee90c, overlapped 0x8fee8f0): stub
wine: configuration in '/home/jarrod/.wine' has been updated.
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x111d338): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x111d338): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:setupapi:CMP_WaitNoPendingInstallEvents 100
fixme:setupapi:pSetupGetGlobalFlags stub
fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 9c040 (device=9 access=3 func=10 method=0)
fixme:setupapi:pSetupGetGlobalFlags stub
fixme:setupapi:pSetupGetGlobalFlags stub
fixme:setupapi:pSetupGetGlobalFlags stub
fixme:setupapi:pSetupGetGlobalFlags stub
fixme:setupapi:pSetupGetGlobalFlags stub
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x1135a60): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x1135a60): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
jarrod@jarrod-ELA01 ~/Desktop $ wineboot
jarrod@jarrod-ELA01 ~/Desktop $ err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled
err:avicap:query_video_device Video 4 Linux support not enabled

When I try to detect the webcam in Skype it sees the camera, but nothing happens when I click the test button in the skype client. Do you guys have any pointers on how to make this work? Thanks in advance for the replies.

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:36 am

Wine is not an emulation of a Windows computer.. and it cannot user drivers.

Also.. why would you run Skype in Wine when you can use the Linux version?

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-sky ... ter/linux/

Guan · Post by **Guan** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:02 am

Perhaps you misunderstood my initial post. I'm trying to get a lenovo webcam to work in linux. No linux drivers were ever made for this webcam, so I'm trying to install it's software package through wine. After installing the software package, I used my skype client (the linux version) and try to configure the webcam. While skype was able to detect the camera, the camera would not turn on. So, I was wondering if there was an installation error that I missed, or if there is some way to make this camera work in linux.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:48 pm

On 6/7/11 7:02 AM, Guan wrote:

Perhaps you misunderstood my initial post. I'm trying to get a lenovo webcam to work in linux. No linux drivers were ever made for this webcam, so I'm trying to install it's software package through wine. After installing the software package, I used my skype client (the linux version) and try to configure the webcam.

This will NOT work. Either the webcam works in Linux or it doesn't.
You cannot use Wine to make it work this way.

Guan · Post by **Guan** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:44 pm

It turns out that Linux does support the webcam. The problem lies within skype. Skype has to be told to load a particular video package before opening. If you input that command in terminal before doing that, then the webcam works fine. Thanks for the replies though.