{"id":206,"date":"2011-09-28T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-09-28T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:16:37","slug":"logitech-c300-webcam-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/technology\/2011\/09\/logitech-c300-webcam-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Logitech C300 webcam on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Logitech C300 webcam worked fine with Fedora 15 as it shipped but a kernel update caused the audio to come out really squeaky\/high-pitched\/&#8221;chipmunk&#8221;ed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only one having issues with similar webcams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux\/+bug\/858412<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=729269<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/bbs.archlinux.org\/viewtopic.php?id=121607&#038;p=3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on the patch in the third link in that list (for a few different webcams), I&#8217;ve found that the following trivial patch fixed the problem:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\ndiff -uNrp kernel-2.6.40.fc15.orig\/drivers\/usb\/core\/quirks.c kernel-2.6.40.fc15.new\/drivers\/usb\/core\/quirks.c<br \/>\n--- kernel-2.6.40.fc15.orig\/drivers\/usb\/core\/quirks.c\t2011-09-27 21:23:58.801051233 +0100<br \/>\n+++ kernel-2.6.40.fc15.new\/drivers\/usb\/core\/quirks.c\t2011-09-27 21:30:35.184686232 +0100<br \/>\n@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ static const struct usb_device_id usb_qu<br \/>\n \t\/* Logitech Webcam C250 *\/<br \/>\n \t{ USB_DEVICE(0x046d, 0x0804), .driver_info = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME },<\/p>\n<p>+\t\/* Logitech Webcam C300 *\/<br \/>\n+\t{ USB_DEVICE(0x046d, 0x0805), .driver_info = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME },<br \/>\n+<br \/>\n \t\/* Logitech Webcam C310 *\/<br \/>\n \t{ USB_DEVICE(0x046d, 0x081b), .driver_info = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME },<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you want to try that before Fedora make a fix available, it&#8217;s easy enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Building_a_custom_kernel\">build your own kernel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Logitech C300 webcam worked fine with Fedora 15 as it shipped but a kernel update caused the audio to come out really squeaky\/high-pitched\/&#8221;chipmunk&#8221;ed. I&#8217;m not the only one having issues with similar webcams: https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux\/+bug\/858412 https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=729269 https:\/\/bbs.archlinux.org\/viewtopic.php?id=121607&#038;p=3 Based on the patch in the third link in that list (for a few different webcams), I&#8217;ve found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}