net-im/ekiga-2.0.11 does not find the V4L2 plugin, so will not drive my camera which requires V4L2 not V4L1. strace -o ekiga.trace ekiga -d 6 2007/10/26 07:02:48.573 0:02.396 ekiga Detected audio plugins: ALSA,OSS 2007/10/26 07:02:48.576 0:02.399 ekiga Detected video plugins: Picture,V4L,1394DC,1394AVC 2007/10/26 07:02:48.579 0:02.403 ekiga Detected audio plugins: ALSA,OSS 2007/10/26 07:02:48.582 0:02.405 ekiga Detected video plugins: Picture,V4L,1394DC,1394AVC An exert from the strace shows that the v4l2 plugin is found but is unmapped whereas the v4l plugin is mprotected. lstat64("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/v4l2_pwplugin.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=79796, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 24 fstat64(24, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=176, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(24, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 gettimeofday({1193378566, 860342}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1193378566, 860391}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1193378566, 860439}, NULL) = 0 getdents(24, /* 6 entries */, 4096) = 144 lstat64("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/v4l2_pwplugin.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=79796, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/v4l2_pwplugin.so/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory) open("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/v4l2_pwplugin.so", O_RDONLY) = 25 read(25, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \202\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(25, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=79796, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 82720, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 25, 0) = 0xb59f1000 mmap2(0xb5a04000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 25, 0x12) = 0xb5a04000 close(25) = 0 munmap(0xb59f1000, 82720) = 0 lstat64("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/v4l_pwplugin.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=75684, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/v4l_pwplugin.so/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory) open("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/v4l_pwplugin.so", O_RDONLY) = 25 read(25, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320}\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(25, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=75684, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 74496, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 25, 0) = 0xb59f3000 mmap2(0xb5a04000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 25, 0x11) = 0xb5a04000 close(25) = 0 mprotect(0xb5a04000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 lstat64("/usr/lib/pwlib/devices/videoinput/dc_pwplugin.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=96916, ...}) = 0 emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.16 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:50:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks installsources metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/musicbrainz /usr/portage/local/layman/emacs /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus directfb doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jce jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos ladspa lcms ldap leim libgda libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors logrotate lua mad matroska mbox midi mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer msn mudflap musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd profile pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline recode reflection ruby sasl sdl seamonkey session sharedmem sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg sysvipc tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts uicktime unicode usb v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xface xine xml xml2 xorg xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" LIRC_DEVICES="asusdh" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev vga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
A year and a half after, did you find a workaround ? Does 2.0.12 fixes this ?
No news, closing the bug. Reopen it if necessary. Thanks.
