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I am about to upgrade my PC
Does Mageia support intel H97 chipset based motherboards?
JJF

As of the last kernel update yes if you are referring to sensors and what not.

Any thing specific or just chip set?

Thanks
Could not connect to an OV519 based webcam. The box is 64b and most of the applications are OK. The same webcam worked in the "older" pc - also Mageia 4.1 64b. Trying to run "motion -n" I could not pass beyond the error "video0 not found..."

How is that related to the mainboard chipset?

How come it worked in another box , same distribution but differ in the motherboard?
I assumed that it might be related
JJF

Why didn't you simply ask in the first place for the real problem - how to get the webcam going again?

JJF wrote:How come it worked in another box , same distribution but differ in the motherboard?

Missing packages or firmware?
Did you move your installation between those two machines, or did you do a new installation?

And please provide the output of

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lspcidrake -v

Then please unplug the cam, open a terminal, and run the following command as root:

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journalctl -af

then wait a few seconds, plugin the cam. Wait a few seconds until no new output is shown in terminal, and post the complete output here.

1. It was a clean install. I made it dual boot machine. Windows 7 first and Mageia 4.1 on top of it.
2. I will upload the requested reports.
BTW I stopped both "journactl" files after a while asthey did not return a prompt for more than a minute.
Tks

What do you mean by both journalctl files?

From the logs, this seems to be your camera:

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snd_usb_audio   : OmniVision Technologies, Inc.|USB Camera [Audio|Control Device] (vendor:05a9 device:8519)

From the log supposedly without camera:

Nov 19 18:58:15 localhost.localdomain kernel: ov519: probe of 3-8:1.0 failed with error -22
Nov 19 18:58:15 localhost.localdomain kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver ov519
Nov 19 18:58:15 localhost.localdomain kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

From the log with camera:

Nov 19 19:00:18 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 3-8: Manufacturer: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Nov 19 19:00:18 localhost.localdomain kernel: gspca_main: ov519-2.14.0 probing 05a9:8519
Nov 19 19:00:25 localhost.localdomain kernel: ov519 3-8:1.0: Can't determine sensor slave IDs
Nov 19 19:00:25 localhost.localdomain kernel: ov519 3-8:1.0: OV519 Config failed
Nov 19 19:00:25 localhost.localdomain kernel: ov519: probe of 3-8:1.0 failed with error -22

Is the camera directly attached to your new box, or via some usb hub/switch or via some long cable maybe?

To debug this further, also see the instructions at e.g. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg24639.html

1. The 2 journal.txt files I reffered to were 2 journalctl-vf . 1 after I disconnected the webcam and the second was after I reconnected it.
2. The device is connected directly to the PC usb port.
3. I did look at the link doktor5000 sujjested, but could not find a solution (as my familiarity with Linux is limited).

4. As the old machine is right next to me. I connected the webcam to it and it is working flawlessly.
jjf

Shot in the dark, go into the bios and check USB settings and enable legacy usb /v1.2 etc

What model/make MB is it?

Can you run the same commands on the MGA3/4 box which is working. Might give an insight as to the problem

Bios legacy usb support is enabled
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-MD3H
Which "same commands" you suggested to run on the MGA3/4 box. Please give detailed instructions
Tks
JJF

Run the commands given by doktor5000 on the system that works.

Shame I don't have that cam as have a GA-H97n board as a server.

Files from the older machine

Did you plug the cam in/out when running the commands ?

Don't see any reference to it in those logs

Yes I did.
I tried it again after 2 days. Same results. No reference to the webcam removal and/or reconnected.
Very odd. Yet this webcam runs perfectly on the old machine
jjf