On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:53:23AM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:47:43PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > > [...] > >>compiled it with module-assistant. Everything went ok, and modprobe > >>inserts the driver with no apparent problems. The thing is, accessing > >>the camera causes the whole system to freeze. Some tutorials suggest its > >>a gcc version problem between the kernel gcc and the driver gcc. > >>Relevant modules loaded are: > >>spca5xx > >>videodev > >>v4l1-compat > >>v4l2-common > >>usbcore > >> > >> > > > >I don't know much, but how are you accessing the camera? what if you > >do a > > > >cat /dev/video[0] > testvid > > > >does that cause a freeze? > > > >if not, can you play that file in mplayer or xine or whatever? > > > >this method sometimes works with tuner cards for example just to see > >if the thing is working. I just tried it with my webcam and it didn't > >really work, in that I got no playable video (probably due to > >compression), but at least it shows that there is info coming from the > >camera. > > > > > > > > > >>Other people seem to be using this webcam model quite successfully, with > >>various distros, so I believe its some troubleshootable thing which I am > >>missing badly. > >>Someone help? > >> > >> > > > > > >I think that you can get spca5xx binaries from debian, its the gspca > >that needs compiling... at least in sid its spca5xx-modules-<kernel> > > > >> > >> > >> > Hi andrew, > I tested the camera with the utility from the driver author, spcaview > and spcagui. Cat'ing /dev/video1 (video0 is a bttv card) froze the > machine just the same. > > So, the problem is with the driver? sounds like it. using cat pretty much eliminates everything but the drivers from the chain. but maybe you are conflicting with the bttv card? can you pull the tv card and try it? maybe you have conflicting interrupts? as I said before, have you tried the binary modules from debian ? A
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