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[Ross Gammon <retail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have not had time to upgrade my Bios, and I don't see how this would fix the problem anyway. The camera works on older distributions, but not the latest. It must be a software problem, not hardware.
As the camera is at the moment useless on this machine (running Ubuntu 13.04), I have switched it to another machine which is running Debian 6 (squeeze). It works there. But when I upgraded that machine to Debian 7 (wheezy) it did not work. I have reinstalled Debian 6 on that machine.
If I can run any commands to determine what modules of the kernel are missing/changed, then please let me know. If anyone knows how to safely install relevant bits of the old kernel to get it working on this machine, then please let me know.
Regards,
Ross

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Title:
  041e:4065 Creative VF380 Live Webcam not working

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Camera worked fine when I was running Debian 6. It also worked during
  the installation routine for Ubuntu 12.10 when I successfully took a
  picture of myself for the login screen. The camera works in Cheese if
  I spin up a Fedora 17 Live DVD. But in Ubuntu 12.10 in cheese, skype,
  or Google+ all I ever get is a black screen.

  Running hwinfo --usb gives:
  ....
  16: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device
    [Created at usb.122]
    Unique ID: FKGF.Dya+SKJZTL9
    Parent ID: pBe4.3f5c44ENLJ9
    SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0
    SysFS BusID: 2-1:1.0
    Hardware Class: unknown
    Model: "Creative VF0380 Live! Cam Optia Pro"
    Hotplug: USB
    Vendor: usb 0x041e "Creative Technology, Ltd"
    Device: usb 0x4065 "VF0380 Live! Cam Optia Pro"
    Revision: "1.00"
    Driver: "uvcvideo"
    Driver Modules: "uvcvideo"
    Device File: /dev/input/event3
    Device Files: /dev/input/event3, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Creative_Technology_Ltd_VF0380_Live__Cam_Optia_Pro-event-if00, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:13.2-usb-0:1:1.0-event
    Device Number: char 13:67
    Speed: 480 Mbps
    Module Alias: "usb:v041Ep4065d0100dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00"
    Driver Info #0:
      Driver Status: uvcvideo is active
      Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe uvcvideo"
    Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
    Attached to: #15 (Hub)
  ....

  Running lsmod gives:
  .....
  uvcvideo               76750  0 
  videobuf2_core         32852  1 uvcvideo
  videodev              120310  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
  videobuf2_vmalloc      12861  1 uvcvideo
  snd_hwdep              17699  2 snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio
  videobuf2_memops       13405  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
  ....

  Running ls -l /dev/video0 gives:
  crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Apr 20 20:51 /dev/video0

  Running mplayer -tv device=/dev/video0 tv:// gives:
  MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
  mplayer: could not connect to socket
  mplayer: No such file or directory
  Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

  Playing tv://.
  TV file format detected.
  Selected driver: v4l2
   name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
   author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   comment: first try, more to come ;-)
  v4l2: your device driver does not support VIDIOC_G_STD ioctl, VIDIOC_G_PARM was used instead.
  Selected device: VF0380 Live! Cam Optia Pro
   Capabilities:  video capture  streaming
   supported norms:
   inputs: 0 = Camera 1;
   Current input: 0
   Current format: YUYV
  v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
  v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
  v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
  tv.c: norm_from_string(pal): Bogus norm parameter, setting default.
  v4l2: ioctl enum norm failed: Invalid argument
  Error: Cannot set norm!
  Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
  v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Invalid argument
  Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
  ==========================================================================
  Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
  Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
  VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Packed YUY2 
  Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm: raw (RAW YUY2)
  ==========================================================================
  Audio: no sound
  Starting playback...
  v4l2: select timeout
  V:   0.0   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
  v4l2: select timeout
  V:   0.0   4/  4 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0...........^C

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: linux-image-3.5.0-27-generic 3.5.0-27.46
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-27.46-generic 3.5.7.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC2:  ross       2782 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  ross       2782 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  ross       2782 F.... pulseaudio
  CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
  Date: Sat Apr 20 21:32:56 2013
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=2a7632d5-38d0-4a51-a060-4ac37244a40a
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-01 (49 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  IwConfig:
   eth0      no wireless extensions.
   
   lo        no wireless extensions.
  MachineType: Packard Bell ixtreme M5120
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-27-generic root=UUID=b904d693-0a8e-488a-97e0-ae44536f5a3a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-27-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-27-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.95
  RfKill:
   
  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: P01-A3
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: RS740
  dmi.board.vendor: Packard Bell
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Packard Bell
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP01-A3:bd08/21/2009:svnPackardBell:pnixtremeM5120:pvr:rvnPackardBell:rnRS740:rvr:cvnPackardBell:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: ixtreme M5120
  dmi.sys.vendor: Packard Bell

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